Ethics Consent Form

Ethics Information & Informed Consent

Project Title: Anglo-Quebec Theatre Mapping Project

Lead Researcher: Dr. Erin Hurley, Professor of Theatre, McGill University, Department of English

Email: erin.hurley@mcgill.ca

Funding: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

Purpose of the Study:
This project seeks to:

visualise the locations of English-language theatrical production in Quebec from 1930-2015 on a dynamic, online map
gather stories about theatrical productions in those spaces from those who took part in them.

To do so, we will use a crowd-sourcing method – conducting ‘hackathons’ of an online map of theatre spaces in Quebec with adult members of the Anglophone Quebec theatre community, primarily theatre artists and administrators. The aim is to gain a greater understanding of the locations of theatre in English and their repertoires. We wish also to view the relationships, connections, people, and performances that contributed and shaped the theatrical landscape of Anglophone theatre in Quebec between 1930 and 2015.

Study Contact:
Please contact Erin Hurley with any questions or clarifications about the project. Erin.hurley@mcgill.ca; 514-398-5530.

If you have any ethical concerns or complaints about your participation in this study and want to speak with someone not on the research team, please contact the McGill Ethics Manager at 514-368-6831 or lynda.mcneil@mcgill.ca.

1. Regarding stories on the map website:

I want my story or stories to appear on the online map and hence, if accepted, made available to the general public. Yes, I want my story or stories to appear on the map and be kept in the secure research database. No, I do not want my story or stories to appear on the map, but rather kept only in the secure research database.

Your contact information, any attachments, and the additional comments made in the submission form will not be made public.

Theatre artists and theatre personnel (technicians, producers, front of house staff, etc.) who contribute their stories to the story-map are eligible to receive a $50 honorarium from Professor Hurley’s McGill-based research fund. You must choose to have your story displayed on the map to be eligible.

If you are claiming the artist honorarium for submitting your story to the map, check this box.

To receive the honorarium, please enter your PayPal account email address to which McGill accounting may transfer the funds right away into the box below.

In the absence of a PayPal account, your honorarium will run through the McGill payroll system, which requires some of your personal data. Please tick this box and Prof Hurley will contact you.

I understand that if my story is accepted, my name will appear publicly on the map as the author of the story. Yes, I understand my name will appear with my story.

I acknowledge that I have read and understood the ethics requirements for submitting a story to this project and map.

Yes, I have read and understand the ethics requirements.

2. Regarding additional interviews and access to other materials:

A. Would you be willing to be contacted by the research team to possibly participate in an interview about Anglophone theatre in Québec? Yes No

B. Do you have any archival materials relevant to the Anglophone Québec theatre history project that the team may consult? Yes No

Eg. posters, ticket stubs, programs, designs, production photographs, etc.

If yes, may I publish content of these materials in which you may be pictured, and which are not already in the public domain? Yes No

If you choose “yes” to either 2.a. or 2.b., the research team will contact you to discuss the separate procedures for interviews and archival document consultation.

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Please type your full name below if you have read the above information and consent to participate in this study. This will be considered your digital signature. Agreeing to participate in this study does not waive any of your rights nor release the researchers from their responsibilities. A copy of this consent form will be given to you and the researcher will keep a copy.

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