Applying Ethical Standards to Research and Evaluations Involving Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Populations

Navigating Risks and Professional Roles: Research with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, and Queer Young People with Intellectual Disabilities

“…In order to decrease the risk of coercion, staff members or advocates who are known to potential participants but who are not members of the research team should conduct recruitment. When community-based researchers are also members of LGBTQ communities, particular attention needs to be paid to the impact of these multiple relationships in relation to potential participants (James & Platzer, 1999;Martin & Meezan, 2003). (2) Researchers should work towards more accessible approaches for obtaining informed consent.…”

“…Furthermore, the possibility of confidentiality breaches may be substantially enhanced given the likelihood of previously established practitioner-participant relationships (Anderson, 2010). These factors warrant more investigation into the effect of "recruiter/subject proximity" (Simon & Mosavel, 2010), particularly when practitioner-researchers are themselves members of LGBTQ communities (James & Platzer, 1999;Martin & Meezan, 2003).…”

Ethical and Methodological Complexities in Research Involving Sexual Minorities

“…Martin and Meezan (2003) also suggest that flexible rather than predetermined methods and the “use of new and innovative techniques” (p. 8) may be appropriate for at least some LBGT research. Similarly, McClennen (2009) advocates adopting “innovative, unconventional methodologies…if research on sensitive topics within stigmatized communities is to be relevant and useful” (p. 234).…”

Victimization Among Female and Male Sexual Minority Status Groups: Evidence From the British Crime Survey 2007–2010

“…In contrast, evidence that rates and types of sexual orientation victimisation differ between sexual minority status groups (Herek, 1989;Herek et al, 2002;Roberts et al, 2010;Warner et al, 2004), and between males and females amongst these groups (Balsam et al, 2005 However, to some extent, peer reviewed research has some limitations similar to those of survey studies. To a degree, these are general methodological challenges reflecting the inherent difficulties faced in any attempt to assess the social and economic conditions of sexual minority status groups, including their experiences of hate-crime as well as more general victimisation and the criminal justice system (Aspinall, 2009;Gates, 2011;McClean & O'Connor, 2003;McManus, 2003;Martin & Meezan, 2003;Moradi et al, 2009;Price, 2011;Purdam et al, 2008). Thus, research on the victimisation of sexual minority status groups can lack generalisability and reliability (Dick, 2009b;Purdam et al, 2008), and much of the international research on sexuality motivated hate-crime is regarded as methodologically inconsistent (Herek, 2009).…”