Guest Lecture Series
Disaster Research: Tips and Ethics
Speaker: Caroline Brassard, PhD
(LKY School of Public Policy - NUS Singapore)
Friday - February 12th | 16.00 WIB | Seminar room ICAIOS Darussalam
Using examples of recent research projects, this talk highlights some of the lesser known methodological and ethical challenges in the field of disaster research. The session focusses on three aspects of research in post or pre disaster contexts:
1. Common dilemmas and hidden questions in designing disaster research.
2. Ethical considerations about collecting and using data (qualitative and/or quantitative) in disaster research.
3. Being an ethical researcher in the 'insider-outsider' continuum.
Participants are encouraged to think about their own experiences and be ready to share them as part of the open discussion at the end of the talk, in an effort to learn from each other.
About the speaker:
Caroline Brassard worked as an economist for the Government of Ontario in Canada, and then undertook research and long term consultancy work on poverty reduction strategies for several international non-governmental organizations in developing countries, including United Nations Children’s Fund in Madagascar, CARE in Bangladesh and Save the Children in Vietnam. She then went on to undertake a Phd in Economics at the University of London, where she taught empirical analysis for economics and management for two years, prior to joining the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy.
Caroline continues to consult with various international organizations including the United Nations Development Program and she teaches on aid governance, research methods, economic development policy, poverty alleviation strategies and empirical analysis for public policy. Her current research focuses on aid governance in Bhutan, Nepal, Indonesia and Vietnam, comparing policies to alleviate poverty and reduce inequalities, Bhutan’s development based on Gross National Happiness and the development policy lessons from the Post-Tsunami reconstruction in Aceh, Indonesia. [Archive]
