Working with an experienced research team was helpful for Esther in navigating the role determination process
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Right. So, again, I got lucky, going into a team that was quite experienced with this already and had the resources laid out. And, so,[mute] had developed what’s called the community school of guidelines. So, it’s a, it’s just two pages. It’s relatively simple, but it’s very clear. It outlines the roles of the researcher. It outlines the roles and responsibilities of the community scholars. And, it’s an agreement that is made at the beginning so, we read it together.
For example, for the planning meeting tomorrow, and I will meet some of those community scholars for the first time, we will read them together. We will discuss them. We can still make changes to them based on their or my needs, to make sure that we are all on the same page.
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