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Building Relationships

Find resources for developing respectful, reciprocal, and culturally grounded relationships throughout the research journey and for maintaining relationships into the future. Whether a researcher is bringing their own research goals to a partnership or supporting a community’s research goals, meaningful collaboration, transparent communication, and a respectful understanding of roles and responsibilities is essential.

  If you are working with/for communities, the ethics application will ask you to describe how the relationships developed.

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Resource Description Resource Owner
A Linguist’s Code of Conduct

These guidelines for engaging in linguistic work with Indigenous Peoples emphasize the importance of focusing on relationships and are applicable to any research endeavour to ensure ethical behaviour. 

 Anna Belew and Amanda Holmes
UBC Learning Exchange

The UBC Learning Exchange is a welcoming community-based learning hub in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside that provides free educational programs for community members, diverse learning opportunities for students, and support for community-based research and knowledge exchange. One of its goals is to “Strengthen relationships with xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations and urban Indigenous communities. The Learning Exchange can help faculty and student researchers wanting to engage and partner with Downtown Eastside communities. The Learning Exchange leads the Making Research Accessible initiative, which has developed the DTES Research Access Portal, an online portal that links to research-related materials relevant to the DTES.

 UBC Learning Exchange
Creating Structures for Meaningful Indigenous Community and UBC Health Partnerships: A Blueprint for Moving Forward with Reconciliation and Research

Example of Indigenous research partnership for fostering ethical, equitable, and reciprocal relationships in research. 

 Human Early Learning Partnership, Centre for Excellence in Indigenous Health
Indigenous-led Research in Conversation: Common themes amongst Indigenous, allied, and community-based researchers

Resource explores what makes for meaningful partnerships in Indigenous health research. 

 Human Early Learning Partnership, Centre for Excellence in Indigenous Health

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First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge with gratitude, respect and humility the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples, on whose traditional, ancestral, unceded lands UBC Vancouver is situated, as well as the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples, on whose traditional, ancestral, unceded lands UBC Okanagan is situated. We also thank UBC's Office of Indigenous Strategic Initiatives for financial assistance to build this site.

Office of Research Ethics


Contact the UBC Behavioural Research Ethics Board office:
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