Welcome to a workshop exploring the ethical concerns involved in data collection and researcher positionality when working with minority and/or particularly vulnerable participants.
Professor Mi Yung Park and Professor Stephen May will draw from their research and present ethical considerations and implications when conducting applied linguistics’ research with Indigenous and/or minoritized participants.
Ingvild Elisabeth Winsnes (Doctoral Research Fellow, ILN), Fatima Reda (Doctoral Research Fellow, ILS) and Camilla Lee (Doctoral Research Fellow, ILN) will each give a short presentation on ethical considerations from their PhD projects respectively.
This workshop is open to everyone.
Program
12.15 - 13.00
Miyung Park & Stephen May
Working with Indigenous and other linguistically minoritized participants: Ethical considerations and implications
13:00 - 13:15
Q&A and Discussion
13:15-13:30
Break
13:30 - 14:05
Camilla Lee
Screen recording as an observational tool: Researcher reflexivity and ethical considerations
Q&A/Discussion
14:05 - 14:40
Ingvild Elisabeth Winsnes
Ethical considerations in dementia research
Q&A/Discussion
14:40 - 15:15
Fatima Reda
Insider or outsider - The influence of the researcher's background
Q&A/Discussion
15:15
End of workshop
About the main lecture
Working with Indigenous and other linguistically minoritized participants: Ethical considerations and implications
This presentation explores the ethical considerations and implications to be addressed when conducting applied linguistics’ research with Indigenous and/or minoritized participants. These considerations include issues of positionality, critical reflexivity, and appropriate ethical guidelines, as well as related issues of access, power and (in)equality, and cultural (mis)representations.
We will draw on our own work with racially and linguistically marginalized groups, including Indigenous, immigrant, and refugee participants in this regard from two different research contexts - South Korea and Aotearoa New Zealand. First, we will look at issues of power and (in)equality, gender, and language barriers, drawing on Mi Yung’s work with Southeast Asian marriage-migrant women and North Korean refugees in South Korea. Second, we will examine issues of positionality, critical reflexivity, and appropriate ethical guidelines for working in Indigenous contexts, drawing on Stephen’s work in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Biographies
Dr. Mi Yung Park
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Dr. Mi Yung Park is Associate Professor and Chair of Asian Studies in the School of Cultures, Languages, and Linguistics at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Her research focuses on heritage language maintenance, language and identity, and linguistic discrimination in both East Asian and diasporic contexts.
She has published widely on these topics in, among others, International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, Language and Education, Language, Culture and Curriculum, Applied Linguistics Review, Language and Intercultural Communication, Multilingua, and Journal of Language, Identity & Education.
She is Associate Editor of the Journal of Multilingual Theories and Practices and editorial board member of Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, Korean Linguistics, and Hallyu: The Korean Wave.
Dr. Stephen May
Dr. Stephen May is Professor in Te Puna Wānanga (School of Māori and Indigenous Education) at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
His key books include Language and minority rights (2nd ed., 2012), The multilingual turn (2014) and, most recently, critical ethnography, language, race/ism and education (2023).
Stephen is Series Editor of the Encyclopedia of Language and Education (3rd ed., 2017), and editor of Ethnicities. He is an AERA Fellow and a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand (FRSNZ).