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Welcome to Episode 10! In this episode, CDRI and FF’s Nith Kosal and guest speaker, Ms. San Sophany (President of SheThinks Network and Gender Specialist ISD-GIZ, explore how credible and ethical research can strengthen trust, accountability, and evidence-informed decision-making.

This conversation explores how research standards guide the research process, from designing a study, collecting and managing data to protecting participants’ rights and ensuring findings are reliable and useful for policy and development.

Key takeaways from this episode:

• Why Research Standards Matter: How standards help ensure research is systematic, accurate, reliable, transparent, and accountable, strengthening confidence in research findings.\
• Ensuring Quality Throughout the Research Process: Why standards should be considered at every stage, from defining research questions and selecting participants to collecting, analysing, and interpreting data.
• Protecting Participants’ Right and Dignity: The importance of respecting privacy, culture, confidentiality, and well-being, particularly when research involves sensitive topics or personal experiences.
• Turning Research into Meaningful Evidence: How following research standards can produce findings that are credible, verifiable, and useful for informing policies, supporting further research, and contributing to positive change in communities.

Click here to download Guidebook: https://policypulse.org/publications/references/12404/

Watch now to learn how research standards can build trust and ensure research is conducted responsibly and meaningfully!

Stay tuned for the next podcast series!

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