visual + Material Culture Research Ethics Micro-credentials

The Visual + Material Culture Research Ethics Non-Credit Micro-Credential Program presents a new opportunity to students at UBC that will foster a space for applied skills in research ethics with a focus on visual methods and object analysis. This project responds to the ALT 2040 objective to develop approaches, resources, activities, or programs that support diversity and build capacity for inclusion in teaching and learning contexts. Currently in Canada, there exists no such non-credit program that allows students to think about ethical approaches to still and video capture as well as object documentation. This is something whether one continues in academic research or moves to government, non-profit, or other industries, knowing the ethical use of capturing images of humans in public and private spaces is paramount. In the Government of Canada’s Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans (TCPS2 Core), only Module 10 covers the use of photography but does not go deep enough to cover the depth of the use of video and still capture. Added to this, there is a need to extend training to consider the ethical use of visual, material, and audio materials under Canada’s Copyright laws. This non-credit micro-credential program we propose to develop will allow us to take the training in Visual Anthropology courses that focus on ethics in visual and object research and allow students to translate these skills to future employers. It also is a chance to expand this non-credit micro-credential across both campuses to other students interested in visual and material culture research outside of formal credit courses.

RESEARCH TEAM

Fiona P. McDonald, CE2 Lab Director, Assistant Professor, Department of Community, Culture and Global Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Joel Thiessen, Senior Emerging and Digital Media Specialist, UBC Studios Okanagan

Rachel Meneghetti, Undergraduate Research Assistant

Suzi Asa, Graduate Reserch Assistant

Ahlam Bavi, Learning Design Intern, UBCO Centre for Teaching + Learning
 

FUNDED BY

Aspire Learning and Teaching (ALT) Fund Awarded in the Program and Learning Experience Enhancement Stream.

The Office of the Provost established the Aspire-2040 Learning Transformations Fund ( ALT-2040 Fund) to accelerate the transformative learning recommendations of the Aspire Vision. The fund focused on transforming student learning through innovations implemented at the academic program level.