Qualitative Transparency Deliberations

Four themes emerged in the course of informal conversations with junior scholars whose research involves interactions with human subjects: 1. Ethics: Making publicly available materials from research with human subjects, especially in authoritarian settings and contexts of research on political viol...

In inviting input into the Qualitative Transparency Deliberations, members of the Steering Committee asked a number of questions about “not just data access but also, for instance, transparency about how we’ve gathered the empirical information on which we rely, about how we have analyzed or interpr...

Thank you, Pr. Brooke, for pointing so sharply to the potential political consequences of our research and they ways in which transparency standards may interact with these consequences. For further consideration of transparency and unintended consequences, see Sarah Elizabeth Parkinson and Elisabet...

Thank you, Pr. Post, for highlighting cyber "insecurity" as a critical issue in the discussion of transparency in the discipline. Do you have suggestions or examples of the more effective measures to anonymize data?

Thank you for highlighting "transparency with regard to *you the researcher,* not with regard to potentially vulnerable subjects." Honesty regarding how the researcher collected their materials with human subjects and arrived at their conclusions using these materials are critical aspects ...

I concur with the constructive spirit of many of the contributions to this forum, especially those which have focused on identifying ways in which researchers can be more explicit about their research design and methods. Providing explicit and thorough discussions of research design and procedures ...

When is it appropriate, ethical, and feasible to make evidence from research with human subjects accessible to the broader public? Are there issue-areas or research contexts that pose particular challenges in making evidence generated with human participants accessible to the broader public? What a...

The worry about obtaining consent from participants for sharing interview transcripts or other records with third parties or the public obtains not only with economic elites but also with people of other socio-economic classes. When someone comes to my door and asks to talk with me, why should I ta...

When is it appropriate, ethical, and feasible to make evidence from research with human subjects accessible to the broader public? Are there issue-areas or research contexts that pose particular challenges in making evidence generated with human participants accessible to the broader public? What a...

Thank you for your response, especially, for drawing attention to interview context, or metadata. The article appended to your response provides further insight and is an important contribution to the conversation.

Thank you, Dr. Wood. Your insightful response from elite-based research on 'crises' in public policy raises a number of important issues. One point I would like to highlight is the broader knowledge that the researcher develops in the course of fieldwork. Even when providing short quotes or longer e...

Thank you. These are important points from the research on forced labor that have broader implications for qualitative research in sensitive settings with vulnerable populations. While we might not always think of gatekeepers and elites as "vulnerable," the issues that you highlight regard...

Have you had experience with sharing aspects of your data generation process and/or interview transcripts or other forms of evidence from research with human participants? What data sharing options (methodological appendix, data repository, personal website, etc.) have you used? What were the trade-...

When is it appropriate, ethical, and feasible to make evidence from research with human subjects accessible to the broader public? Are there issue-areas or research contexts that pose particular challenges in making evidence generated with human participants accessible to the broader public? What au...

When is it appropriate, ethical, and feasible to make explicit the strategies used to generate evidence with human participants? Are there issue-areas or research contexts that pose particular challenges in making the data generation process open to the broader public? What aspects of the data gener...

How do you understand transparency in human subjects research? How does transparency relate to our other commitments as researchers, such as ethics, rigor, and creativity in research? How, in practice, can scholars reconcile the imperative of data access and research transparency with our other comm...

Transparency in human subjects research is one of the most sensitive questions raised by the QTD. Research process transparency and especially data access pose considerable demands for scholars and intersect in complex ways with other values, above all the ethics of research. In the threads that fol...