Considerations and Templates for Ethical Research Practices

This document, intended as a guide for participatory research with First Nations communities in Canada, provides several helpful templates for formal written agreements between academic researchers and communities — for a Data-Sharing Protocol, a Collaborative Research Agreement, and a Code of Research Ethics. The document uses OCAP (ownership, control, access, and possession), the concept of “self-determination applied to research,” as a basis for each of these templates.