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LSIC: Procedural Ethics Through an Indigenous Ethical Lens

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This chapter introduces the ethical dimensions, formal and informal, related to the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children (LSIC). The formal guidelines are those detailed by the National Health and Medical Research Council and those from the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Research Ethics Guidelines. The chapter discusses the particular ethical approach, issues, problems confronted and resolutions deployed in the design and implementation of the LSIC study, the project’s initial ethics procedures and the conundrums faced in bringing the study to ethical clearance. These include the multi-site, multi-state location of the research, the need to wait for researcher and participant relationships to develop before surveying, the training and maintaining of the Indigenous staff to work at the research field sites, and the specific issues around maintaining confidentiality of data gathered in discrete locations.

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  1. University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia

    Terry Dunbar

  2. Yaitya Purruna Indigenous Health Unit at the University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia

    Margaret Scrimgeour

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  1. University of Tasmania, Sandy Bay, Tasmania, Australia

    Maggie Walter

  2. Griffith University, Mt Gravatt, Queensland, Australia

    Karen L. Martin

  3. University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia

    Gawaian Bodkin-Andrews

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Dunbar, T., Scrimgeour, M. (2017). LSIC: Procedural Ethics Through an Indigenous Ethical Lens. In: Walter, M., Martin, K., Bodkin-Andrews, G. (eds) Indigenous Children Growing Up Strong. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53435-4_4

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