Ensuring fairness and equity in participant recruitment and sampling

Designing for equity: Ethical research starts with who you include

Join us for an engaging session on putting ethics into action through inclusive participant selection. Using a real-world case study, we’ll explore the challenges of recruiting diverse participants and walk you through the steps to research design that reflects equity and balance.

Using Canada’s Tri-Council Policy as a guiding principle, you will learn to create research participant models that are robust and inclusive, and leave with practical strategies for incorporating equitable recruitment and sampling in your own work.

In this fast-paced 90-minute workshop, you'll dive into real case studies, hear expert insights, and take part in interactive activities. Come ready to reflect, discuss, and tackle inclusive research design challenges you might face in your own research.

Facilitator spotlight

Brooke Leifso is a disabled researcher, accessibility consultant, and artist. Brooke brings a lifetime of lived and learned experience to her research. As the Research Chair in Workplace Inclusion and Accessibility at the Colbourne Institute for Inclusive Leadership at NorQuest College, she hopes to create new, accessible (google-able) knowledge for all organizations to have the resources to diversify their workforce, creating equitable opportunities for all to thrive and feel included. Her research and consultancy have included working with Autism CanTech!, Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival, Alberta Workers Health Centre, United Food and Commercial Workers local 401, CCI-LEX, End Poverty Edmonton, CKUA and more.

Secure your spot today

Don’t miss this opportunity to strengthen your research design and learn from real-world experience. Whether you're planning research or already working in community settings, this session will help you strengthen the diversity of your sample for more robust research results.