For twenty plus years students have worked with me on collaborative projects within Laxyuup Gitxaa\u0142a. Some have conducted research as part of ethnographic field schools (2006, 2007), others have worked as research interns with Gitxaa\u0142a Nation, and others still have been research assistants working directly with me as research assistants and\/or collaborators.\u00a0 Providing student research opportunities is an expectation placed on faculty at research universities like UBC.<\/p>\n
Under the collaborative research relationship with Gitxaa\u0142a<\/a> all research data collected is considered to belong to Gitxaa\u0142a Nation, but the Forests and Oceans for the Future Research Group<\/a> has been granted a license to publish results of our ongoing research.\u00a0 Publications are reviewed by appropriate members of community leadership and\/or community agencies.\u00a0 Some of the students have produced final reports for internal community distribution, others have gone on to produce theses and some have published peer reviewed articles. This post is a summary of theses and peer-reviewed publications that have emerged from the past twenty-five years of collaborative research and highlights the work done by students.<\/p>\n Readers will note that most of the student researchers’ published peer reviewed articles are sole authored pieces by the students themselves (the exceptions reflect long term professional collaborations).\u00a0 \u00a0While acknowledging that the data belongs to Gitxaa\u0142a Nation, it is important to ensure that the intellectual work of preparing reports, theses, and publishable articles of student authors is clearly recognized. Where the working relationship developed into one of professional colleagues in which we both come equally to the writing table then there is a trajectory of co-authorship.<\/p>\n For most of the students their involvement ended with the submission of a report to Gitxaa\u0142a Nation. Their reports included any interviews or related data for use by Gitxaa\u0142a as community leadership saw fit.\u00a0 The data attached to those reports remained the intellectual property of Gitxaa\u0142a Nation.\u00a0 My own publications do not make use of or (usually) reference to the student reports. My objective has been to encourage the student authors to prepare their own materials for publication, as long as it has been reviewed by Gitxaa\u0142a prior to publication.<\/p>\n One other technical point of note: UBC ethics requirements.<\/strong> Under the terms of UBC\u2019s Behavioural Research Ethics Board (which follows the Tri-Council Policy on Research Ethics) research data must be held at UBC in a secure location for at least five years after the close of a research project. In addition, UBC considers the faculty member supervising student research (either in courses or for graduate study) to be the principal investigator (PI).\u00a0 Sometimes students misunderstand this point. Being the PI of record doesn’t mean that the faculty member ‘owns’ the student’s work, it merely lays out legal obligations and responsibilities of the faculty member. Thus,\u00a0 as a faculty member supervising student work I am legally responsible for the research practices of students under my supervision and have therefore a legal obligation to ensure, to the best of my ability, that proper ethical practices are followed.\u00a0 This also means that I am obligated to store research data in a UBC facility for at least five years.\u00a0 After five years I destroy what data may have been left with me.\u00a0 Original copies of research data are held permanently by Gitxaa\u0142a Nation in their research archives. Sometimes students also hold copies of research data, but for field school students Gitxaa\u0142a expected them to return all materials to Gitxaa\u0142a Nation at the close of their course when they handed in their final projects.<\/p>\n Developing out of two ethnographic field schools (2006, 2007) and a host of research internships have come a strong collection of MA Theses, listed here in reverse chronological order.<\/p>\n Each student in the two ethnographic field schools submitted a written report on their fieldwork<\/a> to Gtixaa\u0142a Nation (or, to their community partner if they weren’t working with Gitxaa\u0142a). Some of these students turned their reports into peer reviewed publications.\u00a0 Five students published reflections on fieldwork in a special section of the journal Collaborative Anthropologies<\/em>: “Collaborative Service Learning and Anthropology with Gitxaa\u0142a Nation.” 2011.\u00a0\u00a04:169-242.<\/p>\n Several other students have published peer reviewed chapters or articles independently of the above project.<\/p>\n Over the period of field research a number of research reports have been produced by students, associates, and contractors working within the Forests and Oceans for the Future reserach group.\u00a0 Though these reports do not arise from specific fieldschool or internship projects they are relevant to the general corpus of materials produced through the collaborative project.<\/p>\n Between 1997 and 2002 the provincial agency, Forest Renewal BC, funded a series of community-based reserach projects.\u00a0 A range of different types of publications were produced which included curriculum materials for the K-12 school system<\/a> and a special section of the Canadian Journal of Native Education<\/a>.<\/p>\n In addition, Caroline Butler, PhD, ( formerly a UBC graduate student) and I produced a series of papers that started with the FRBC project but have continued since as our own collaborative relationship shifted from student\/ research supervisor to colleagues and co-researchers. These papers are all based upon research conducted by Butler and Menzies in collaboration with Gitxaa\u0142a community researchers.<\/p>\n Over this period I have also published papers that emerged out of my ongoing research with members of my family and community. Listed here are the most relevant ones.<\/p>\n For twenty plus years students have worked with me on collaborative projects within Laxyuup Gitxaa\u0142a. Some have conducted research as part of ethnographic field schools (2006, 2007), others have worked as research interns with Gitxaa\u0142a Nation, and others still have … Continue reading Research Reports that Became Theses<\/h3>\n
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