Historians and the Tri-council policy statement on research involving humans

Abstract

At the 2003 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, the Interagency Advisory Panel on Research Ethics (PRE), the Canadian Federation for the Social Sciences and Humanities, and the PRE Social Sciences and Humanities Research Ethics Special Working Committee piloted a consultation with researchers from the humanities and social sciences. The consultation was in response to criticisms of the Tri-Council Policy Statement on Research Involving Humans (TCPS). Since its inception in 1994, researchers in the socials sciences and humanities have argued that the TCPS recommends procedures that are more suited to quantitative studies than to qualitative research.