“Dear John”: Overriding institutional axiology by privileging Indigenous relational ethics

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dc.contributor.authorJohn, Jodi
dc.contributor.authorCastleden, Heather
dc.date.accessioned2025-02-20T19:40:13Z
dc.date.available2025-02-20T19:40:13Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractInstitutional ethical oversight of research involving humans conducted at Canadian universities is guided by the Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans (TCPS2). Beginning in 2010, the TCPS2 included a chapter specific to research involving First Nations, Inuit, and Metis Peoples of Canada, which is intended to provide a framework for the ethical conduct of research with Indigenous communities. These institutional guidelines reflect progress in the way research is done with Indigenous communities. However, concerns remain about the ways in which these guidelines are taken up, interpreted, and operationalized by institutional research ethics boards, which include creating tensions and challenges for Indigenous scholars conducting research together with their own communities. The purpose of this paper is to describe some of the challenges and conflicting expectations we faced as an Indigenous doctoral student and non-Indigenous academic supervisor, navigating the axiological differences between institutional ethical oversight and community relational ethics with the aim of supporting other Indigenous scholars who may experience similar challenges and influencing policy change and relational engagement in ethical review processes in university settings. We outline the various critiques of institutional oversight of Indigenous research, share several examples of how we experienced the tensions and potential/actual harm that institutional power interference caused in the review process and how we worked through them, and demonstrate how, in our experience, it was not bureaucratic institutional procedures that protected community participants from risk, it was community relationships. We conclude by discussing implications and offering our suggestions for change.
dc.description.reviewstatusReviewed
dc.description.scholarlevelFaculty
dc.description.sponsorshipAll articles in Research Ethics are published as open access. There are no submission charges and no Article Processing Charges as these are fully funded by institutions through Knowledge Unlatched, resulting in no direct charge to authors. For more information about Knowledge Unlatched please see here: http://www.knowledgeunlatched.org This research was completed with financial support from the Indigenous Mentorship Network of Ontario and a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship.
dc.identifier.citationJohn, J., & Castleden, H. (2024). “Dear John”: Overriding institutional axiology by privileging Indigenous relational ethics. Research Ethics. 10.1177/17470161241288649
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1177/17470161241288649
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1828/21223
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherResearch Ethics
dc.rightsCC BY-NC 4.0
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subject.departmentSchool of Public Administration
dc.title“Dear John”: Overriding institutional axiology by privileging Indigenous relational ethics
dc.typeArticle

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