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Background: When making decisions about recruitment, researchers are also deciding ways in which potential participants might be included or excluded from the study. This can pose ethical issues, as well as create selection bias, that researchers have to consider and then plan for in order to reduce negative impacts in their study and the population or community in which they are doing fieldwork.

Aside from recruitment, researchers have to be aware of their positionality—the ways in which their own attributes (such as gender, ethnicity, age, and education) impact the way they will interact with their participants and the population or community they are studying.

This activity will help you consider characteristics about yourself that might impact the ways in which your participants interact with you and take steps to address potential ethical and logistical issues arising from these differences, particularly ways in which you might have more power than your participants.