Not presuming they know what’s best for communities, is an important starting point for researchers says Wendy
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Interviewer: Do you have any advice or something that researchers who do want to if they’re getting started, that’s something they should never-
Oh never do, yes, never be an expert, at least never say that you know what’s best for the communities … unless you’re an Indigenous researcher and then you can have that conversation. But I think that that’s part of the building trust as well is that people need to know that you really want to work with them to address the issues in their communities, so I think-. Another not to do … the other not to do, and I think that this is when I started doing work. I thought that we were going to – you know once people kind of agreed to work with me that we were going to move forward with data collection and we were going to sign consent as I just did with you for this research study and it’s all really clear in my head that when I’m– That assumption I would never make going forward in a community and I’ve had it where I had a whole, you know, my data collection focus group set up and we got there and I mean it absolutely didn’t happen because people weren’t ready and they weren’t ready to go there with me. So I think that’s the other don’t do is don’t expect that your data collection or your research process is going to advance the way that you want it to, the way that we as researchers want to get things done.
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