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Confirming Agreement

Find resources to ensure that important details are considered when developing agreements or confirming research proceedings with community partners. If your research involves community partners, look first to any guidelines they may have. If a documented agreement is the preferred protocol, ideally it will not be so detailed as to require frequent updates. Keep in mind that the key elements of your study may need to be revisited as the research progresses. Discussions with partners may need to include:

  • Roles and Responsibilities, commitments of all parties
  • How decisions will be made
  • How data will be stored, shared and used in future

  Your ethics application will ask for information (where applicable) about whether agreement with community partners is required and in what form the agreement will be confirmed. If a research agreement document is developed, it will need to be attached to your ethics application before full approval is issued. If your research does not require agreement, provide a brief explanation in the application (Section G).

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Keeping Our Data Strong: Upholding Indigenous Data Sovereignty Through Data Sharing Agreements

Blog post highlighting key considerations for developing data sharing agreements to manage and safeguard Indigenous data, knowledge and information. The author discusses the collection of data about Indigenous peoples, their communities, and Country, in the context of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples throughout Australia.

Terri Janke
Procedure for Obtaining Evidence of Community Engagement for Research Involving Indigenous Groups

Guidance for obtaining evidence of community engagement for research involving Indigenous groups. 

Memorial University
Considerations and Templates for Ethical Research Practices

Provides considerations and templates for developing a code of research ethics, collaborative research agreement, and data sharing protocol for research with First Nations.

National Aboriginal Health Organization

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Office of Research Ethics


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