Thank you for taking this survey! Your responses will help Nicholas Welch (Memorial University of Newfoundland) and Jennifer Thorburn (University of Lausanne) get a sense of how work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) has impacted research on language with Indigenous communities in the country. It should take 10-15 minutes to complete.
They plan to use the results of this survey in a publication that will also discuss our own experiences working with Indigenous communities in Canada over the past 20 years.
Your participation in this survey is voluntary and your responses will be kept anonymous and confidential. We will collect both sociodemographic information and your comments on your experiences working with Indigenous communities and the research environment as a whole. We may quote selected responses in publications. Any comments that are quoted will be de-identified to protect your identity. Nevertheless, due to the small size of the population that engages in this kind of work, it is possible that informed readers may be able to identify you from your comments. Your anonymous answers will be archived for 5 years, as required by Memorial University’s policy, then deleted.
You are welcome to skip any questions you do not wish to answer. Your results will only be saved when you click the “submit” button. Until that time, should you decide you don’t want to participate, you can simply close the browser and no data will be retained. After clicking submit, you will no longer be able to withdraw from the study as the survey does not ask for directly identifying information.
Completing this survey will help us better understand the impact of the TRC on language work with Indigenous communities, which will hopefully lead to policy improvements. There is no physical or financial risk to you from participating in this study. Should you feel uncomfortable as a result of this activity, we encourage you to contact a local counsellor.
The survey was created using the LimeSurvey platform, whose privacy policy is available here. Data from the survey will be stored in a password-protected secure cloud storage site (Tresorit) at the University of Lausanne, under the privacy policy available here. The proposal for this research has been reviewed by the Interdisciplinary Committee on Ethics in Human Research and found to be in compliance with Memorial University’s ethics policy. If you have ethical concerns about the research, such as the way you have been treated or your rights as a participant, you may contact the Chairperson of the ICEHR at icehr@mun.ca or by telephone at 709-864-2861.
Before starting the survey, please read the statement below and tick the "I agree" box if you are willing to participate.
I agree to participate in this study and I understand that my responses and any sociodemographic information I provide may be referenced in publications by the two researchers named above. My participation is entirely voluntary and unpaid. My responses will be anonymized.
