Munazza Tahir

Associate Director, Inclusive Research and Evaluation, Open Collaboration for Cognitive Accessibility

Munazza Tahir

Munazza Tahir is the Associate Director of Inclusive Research and Evaluation at Open Collaboration for Cognitive Accessibility. In her role, she ensures that people with cognitive disabilities get meaningfully included in research and development projects across various sectors. She works with academics, companies, and organizations to support the recognition of Advisors as partners and collaborators in projects. Munazza is also completing a PhD in Community Psychology at the University of Ottawa with a research focus on the experiences of parents with intellectual disabilities in the child protection system. She works with Advisors with lived experience to make her research inclusive and mentors other PhD students in conducting inclusive research. Before coming to Open, Munazza worked at the Autism Program in the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) and other provincial disability programs. She has a background in Applied Disability Studies and has been working with people with disabilities for more than 15 years.

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All Sessions by Munazza Tahir

  • Tuesday, April 30


  • 14:10  - 14:55
    SESSION KEYWORDS: Consent, Inclusive Research, Cognitive disabilities, Ethics Review, Research processes and methods

    SESSION ABSTRACT

    This two-part educational workshop aims to interrogate the balance between social justice advancements and human research protection. The main goal is to provide practical tools to ethics review board members and administrators to better understand and help researchers remove barriers to inclusive research with persons with cognitive disabilities. Persons with cognitive disabilities include persons living with dementia, intellectual or developmental disabilities and anyone self-identifying as being neurodivergent. The learning objectives of the workshop are: Part 1: Workshop attendees will learn best practices in inclusive research methods with persons with cognitive disabilities. This will include information on how to intentionally and meaningfully include persons with cognitive disabilities in academic research, and how to make research processes and methods more accessible to them. Hand-on exercises will support learning. Part 2: Workshop attendees will learn how informed consent is conceptualized and practical tools that researchers may use to satisfy informed consent requirements. Resources and strategies for ethics board review members to support decision-making in ethics applications involving participants with cognitive disabilities will be offered. Principles from the tri-council ethical conduct guidelines will be discussed with an ethics board director in the context of research involving participants with cognitive disabilities.
    Sessions

  • 15:05  - 15:50
    SESSION KEYWORDS: Consent, Inclusive Research, Cognitive disabilities, Ethics Review, Research processes and methods

    SESSION ABSTRACT

    This two-part educational workshop aims to interrogate the balance between social justice advancements and human research protection. The main goal is to provide practical tools to ethics review board members and administrators to better understand and help researchers remove barriers to inclusive research with persons with cognitive disabilities. Persons with cognitive disabilities include persons living with dementia, intellectual or developmental disabilities and anyone self-identifying as being neurodivergent. The learning objectives of the workshop are: Part 1: Workshop attendees will learn best practices in inclusive research methods with persons with cognitive disabilities. This will include information on how to intentionally and meaningfully include persons with cognitive disabilities in academic research, and how to make research processes and methods more accessible to them. Hand-on exercises will support learning. Part 2: Workshop attendees will learn how informed consent is conceptualized and practical tools that researchers may use to satisfy informed consent requirements. Resources and strategies for ethics board review members to support decision-making in ethics applications involving participants with cognitive disabilities will be offered. Principles from the tri-council ethical conduct guidelines will be discussed with an ethics board director in the context of research involving participants with cognitive disabilities.
    Sessions




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