Qualitative Transparency Deliberations

What are the risks of transparency in authoritarian/repressive research contexts? What practices related to transparency -- current or suggested -- should be avoided in these contexts?

What are good examples of work where a researcher has been sufficiently transparent in research in authoritarian settings? What are innovative and useful practices that researchers in this field might adopt?

What distinctive challenges might arise that should be addressed by the researcher to satisfy this goal in authoritarian settings? In other words, what must a researcher be explicit about to meet the standard of "transparency" in these settings?

What is the goal of transparency in research on/in authoritarian political settings? Why is transparency important and what do we mean by it?

Welcome to the QTD discussion board for research that occurs in authoritarian or repressive political contexts. This working group will consider distinctive transparency issues that arise for research conducted in/on authoritarian or repressive political regimes. Broadly speaking, we will ask: what ...

I wonder if anyone currently teaching qualitative methods has felt an impact from the DA-RT process in their graduate programs. I am currently teaching our qualitative methods course to PhD students, and my students have raised a number of questions about disciplinary requirements for archival and i...

I'd like to add my agreement here. The costs are both large and disproportionately distributed, and the incentives align to seriously discourage qualitative research. What began as a very sensible suggestion that qualitative researchers consider how best to make their methods more transparent to inc...

I'd like to echo the concerns raised above. Having read the DA-RT guidelines carefully, I do not believe they adequately address the requirements for protection of human subjects and others that we might encounter in the course of research. There are a couple of key points I'd like to add to what's ...