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Estimated completion time: 2 hours
By the end of this tutorial, you will be able to:
1. Distinguish roles and ethical obligations of project leaders, participants, and partners in participatory science projects.
2. Identify how ethical tensions arise in participatory science projects.
3. Recognize the obligations associated with ethical principles in the context of participatory science projects.
4. Analyze ethical tensions related to data integrity, report-outs, recompense, and report-backs in participatory science projects.
5. Recognize how data governance structures can concentrate or diffuse decision-making power.
You will practice or acquire the following skills, which are part of an Open Skills Taxonomy used by employers and schools: data integrity, data governance.
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