In today’s changing environment it is important that Tertiary Learning Advisors(TLAs) research aspects of their practice. However, when TLAs embark on teaching and learning research with their own students as participants, they can encounter a range of thorny ethical issues that need to be considered and addressed when designing their research and completing their Human Ethics applications.
At the 2013 Association of Tertiary Learning Advisors Aotearoa New Zealand (ATLAANZ) conference, we facilitated a workshop for emerging TLA researchers and others with an interest in fostering ethical research in their institution. The purpose of the workshop was to highlight the key ethical issues facing TLAs engaged in research into teaching and learning, and to explore how research projects could be designed to better accommodate ethical principles.
This workshop kit, a revised version of the conference workshop, is intended to provide a resource for colleagues to use and adapt in their own institutions.