Survey Invitation
Project Title:
Navigating research quality and independence while retaining equity, diversity, inclusion, and decolonialization in the face of different and changing sociopolitical environments
Principal Investigator:
Dr. Joy MacDermid, PhD, Western University
Co-Investigators:
Heidi Cramm, PhD, Queen’s University
Margaret McKinnon, PhD, McMaster University
Rosemary Ricciardelli PhD, Memorial University
Introduction:
Equity, diversity, inclusion, and decolonialization (EDID) have been operationalized in research policies at the government, funder, and editorial levels to improve the quality of health research. The consideration of EDID in health research questions and designs leads to better science by allowing for more nuanced and complete understanding of health inequities. Changing sociopolitical environments have affected the conduct and publication of research with respect to EDID and have generated concerns on potential threats to science in the research community.
Purpose:
The purpose of this study is to identify the potential risks to equitable and valid science that can occur when academic attitudes and actions are based on the identity of researchers, research participants, relevant people with lived experience, or alignment with an EDID topic.
About Project:
We are a team of researchers from Western University with an interest in better understanding the factors that affect research quality and will use the results to develop best practices in considering equity, diversity, inclusion, and decolonialization (EDID) in military, Veteran, public safety personnel and families research.
If you volunteer to participate, you will be asked to answer an online anonymous survey that will take about 10-15 minutes to complete.
To complete the survey, please click on the link below (or copy and paste the URL to a new browser address bar): https://uwo.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eXNjNwNMghz3LAq
Please see the attached Participant Info Letter for further details on the study.