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Before heading into the field—whether to observe, interview, or participate—you should consider carefully how your actions might impact the people you meet. This is as true for a researcher entering the field for an extensive, in-depth study as it is for a student working on a small class assignment. Click on the links below for resources to help prepare you to enter the field.

• The Ethics of Fieldwork Module: a ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈ module designed to guide students t hrough the ethical dilemmas involved in conducting ethnographic research from proposal, to fieldwork, to publication.
• : links to discipline specific codes of ethics
• at Elon Unversity for guidelines about proposing and carrying out research involving human subjects.
• for ethnography and community studies research. Be sure to familiarize yourself with IRB rules and regulations before adapting one of these samples.

PERCS has developed ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈ modules to guide students through some of the key issues and methods involved in ethnographic fieldwork. These modules can be used by teachers or directly by students.

: This module explores the process of in-depth interviewing, with tips about how to prepare, conduct, and interpret interviews, with a discussion of the benefits and limitations of this method of data collection. Also includes class exercises.

PERCS has developed ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈ modules to guide students through some of the key issues and methods involved in ethnographic fieldwork. These modules can be used by teachers or directly by students.

: This module explores the process of focused field observation, with tips about conducting systematic and open-ended observation and a discussion of the benefits and limitations of this method of data collection. Also includes class exercises.

PERCS has developed ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈ modules to guide students through some of the key issues and methods involved in ethnographic fieldwork. These modules can be used by teachers or directly by students.

Focus Groups: This module describes how to conduct qualitative research for gathering information, attitudes and opinions on a particular topic or issue in an interactive group setting.