Research & Ethics Training Program | August Masterclass
About the masterclass
This masterclass centres CEVAW’s commitment to relationships first by foregrounding relational accountability as the basis of ethical and impactful research. Bringing together Indigenous approaches to knowing, being and doing, it invites researchers to rethink their relationship to their work, to the people and places it engages, and to the responsibilities that follow. Participants will explore how these principles shape the conduct of research and how it is translated, shared, and made meaningful for communities.
Relationalities, Positionalities & Indigenous Centred Approaches- Facilitated by Dr Innez Haua (she/her/ia)
This masterclass explores positionality and relationality as foundational frameworks for understanding relational accountability to knowledges, identities and responsibilities for research in and of the Pacific. All of the lands, skies and waters throughout the Pacific are Indigenous. As research within CEVAW is conducted across the Pacific, what is your positionality and responsibility to Indigenous lands, knowledges, cultures and peoples? Drawing on Indigenous Pacific methodologies and worldviews this masterclass will discuss how relationality informs responsible and accountable research practice. Moving beyond western research practices, participants will engage with the ways positionality is continuously shaped through relationships within cultural and historical contexts, and peoples and place. Participants will be encouraged to situate themselves not as detached researchers, but in relationship with peoples and place where research practices carry material and cultural consequences.
Who/What/Why Is Your Research For? Doing and Presenting Research with Purpose- Facilitated by Ash Moorehead (she/her)
This masterclass invites Higher Degree Researchers to think beyond what their research is about, and instead sit with the deeper questions of who, why, and what their research is for. Grounded in Indigenous ways of Knowing, Being and Doing, this session centres relationality, positionality, and storying not simply as methods, but as lived responsibilities that shape how our research is designed, conducted, and importantly, how it is shared. Too often, research training steeped in Western research practices that fail to create space for researchers to critically reflect on the purpose of their work, or the people and places that give it meaning. This masterclass gently disrupts that approach by offering a ‘different’ way of doing and presenting research; one that is grounded in relational accountability. Through hands-on activities participants will be guided to locate themselves within their research. This session is particularly relevant for PhD candidates seeking to expand their understanding of Indigenous, relational, and intergenerational approaches to research.
*This event is by Invitation only