World Café Workshop Consent Form and Survey

CONSENT FORM - PART 1

INVITATION & PROJECT DESCRIPTION
If you are a current full or part-time faculty member, we invite you to participate in 1 of 2 workshop(s) being conducted by the Centre for Academic Excellence. The purpose of the workshops is to engage in a World Café discussion to define faculty resilience at Niagara College and examine how is it fostered by the College. The timing to the workshops are as follows, and they are each 2 hours:

- World Café Workshop For Full-time faculty: Jan. 22, 5-7pm, ROOM W212
- World Café Workshop For Part-time faculty: Jan. 30, 5-7pm, ROOM W212

WHAT’S INVOLVED
As part of consent to attend a workshop you will be asked to complete a survey, which will provide overall demographics of workshop attendees, and high level perspectives into professional resilience. If you choose not to proceed with the workshop or you are not in attendance at the selected workshop, your survey data will be removed.

You will attend the workshop that best reflects your role at the College. The format is one where you will sit with up to four other faculty at four different tables over the evening. Each table has a specific question for you to focus on. You will spend about 20 minutes at each table considering that question as a group. Each table will have an impartial observer from the CAE who will share what came of the previous conversation and to record information shared.

After all tables have been visited there is large group debrief, as well as an opportunity for participants to provide their reflections on paper, which, with permission, will be collated as part of the workshop data. After the workshop, no information will be attributed to any one individual and only shared as general trends/observations.

Your attendance will be taken at the workshop and only used to confirm the use of your survey data in the final analysis.

POTENTIAL RISKS AND DISCOMFORTS
There are no known physical or psychological risks or discomforts associated with this research.

POTENTIAL BENEFITS TO SUBJECTS AND/OR TO SOCIETY
Participation in the research may provide you with useful insight into your own resiliency and opportunity to connect with, share and learn from other faculty. Participating will enable you to experience the benefits of a World Café approach, which you may consider for use in your own classroom. Participation may also lead to the improvement of resources, programming, and support mechanisms for faculty at the College.

SUBSEQUENT USE OF DATA
Results of this study may be published in reports, professional and scholarly journals, and/or presentations to conferences. The results will also be shared with NC Executive, who may use information from the workshops to improve resources, programming, and support mechanisms for NC faculty. A report, summarizing the findings from the workshops will be available by March 29, 2019.  For information regarding the summary of findings, please contact Dr. Natasha Patrito Hannon (nhannon@niagaracollege.ca).

 CONFIDENTIALITY
All identifying information will be removed prior to the publication of any of the resulting data. The World Café is a group event and as such confidentiality cannot be fully assured.  Although the researchers will keep your information confidential, other participants will hear the information you share.

CONSENT FORM - PART 2

RELEASE STATEMENT

Your participation in the survey and workshop is voluntary. In order to participate in the workshop, you are requested to complete the survey.

Survey information is required to describe our participant pool, as well as a high level perspective into professional resilience.  Online survey data will be kept confidential. Data collected in the survey will be kept in secure storage at Niagara College for seven years following the conclusion of this study, after which time it will be destroyed.

Data and information from the workshop will be collated under specific themes and no names will be attributed to content shared. Your attendance will be taken at the workshop and only used to confirm the use of your survey data in the final analysis.  There is no penalty for not attending the workshop.

Although we will request that individuals at the workshops maintain confidentiality of information shared, due to the nature of a group event, confidentiality cannot be fully assured.

Participants will be eligible for a draw of 1 $100 gift card, which will be drawn at the end of the workshop. Therefore attendance to the end of the workshop is required for the draw.

By completing the survey, next, you are agreeing to the terms of this Consent Form, including:

• to participate in a World Café workshop
• to allow CAE access to your survey responses and to record your attendance at the workshop
• to allow CAE to share the results of the workshop as described in the “Subsequent Use of Data” section of this Consent Form
• the fact that this workshop is not fully confidential by virtue of the methodology

You may withdraw your consent at any time. Choosing not to participate in or withdrawing from the workshop will have no impact on your role at the College.  If you decide to withdraw from the workshop, please email Dana Wetherell (dwetherell@niagaracollege.ca) ASAP.  Upon withdrawal, any survey data you had contributed will be deleted.

This workshop has been approved by Andrea Bodnar, Co-Chair and Tatiana Young, Co-Chair of the Niagara College Research Ethics Board (Clearance Certificate Number CECNC2018-15 from 12/14/2018 to 3/29/2019) . If you have questions regarding your rights as a research subject, contact Research Ethics at email: researchethics@niagaracollege.ca or call 905-735-2211 Ext. 7180.

ACCEPTANCE OF RESEARCH SUBJECT
I understand the information provided for the World Café Research Workshop to examine factors contributing to faculty resilience at Niagara College, as described herein.  My questions have been answered to my satisfaction, and I agree to participate in this research.