Researching Sensitive Topics

How can this training help you?

This is a practical and interactive session designed to protect researchers, participants and the team, when researching something sensitive. By this, we mean a researching a topic that is considered emotional, difficult to talk about, or with vulnerable groups.

It’s important we prepare and hold space for having these conversations now that more of us are doing user research for the first time in these settings. Even as experienced user researchers, we can often encounter new contexts, user groups and challenges throughout our career. We can all benefit from sharing learnings and discussing approaches to keep people safe in our research.

This training workshop will give you practical tools and approaches based on my experience leading research on sensitive topics and supporting teams across government, charity and private sector.

Who is this training for?

This training is facilitated in a group setting

It will suit anyone who is:

• Facilitating research on sensitive topics or with vulnerable groups

• Working in a team alongside a researcher on sensitive topics eg. designers, content, product managers

• Leading or supporting a team who is doing this kind of research (eg. ResearchOps)

What’s included?

🤝 A scoping call to talk about your team’s needs and challenges - I will tailor your workshop based on this

🤝 Live, interactive training session for 2.5 hours - delivered to your team online, or in person

🤝 Practical actions you can take at each stage of the research process; to protect participants, researchers and the team

🤝 Access to learnings from live case studies and a support sheet based on my experiences. This is based on topics such as health, bereavement, child sexual abuse, homelessness and children and young people’s mental health

🤝 Opportunity to share learnings and discuss research ethics, at both delivery and leadership level

🤝 Follow up support to help you implement actions from this session

This is a live session conducted in a group setting. There's no pressure to be on your camera or to engage in discussions, if you don't feel comfortable. The session won’t be recorded, to help those attending to feel as comfortable as possible to share.

I'll be sharing materials before and after the session to support those attending.

How does it work?

• Contact us via the form or email

• We’ll book in a free call to talk about your team and their needs

• I’ll share a proposal and will ask for a small deposit to secure your slot

• Once booked, I’ll share material pre and post session, to protect people taking part in the workshop

The price is a fixed fee per team

To tell us a bit more about your team and book in a free call, email sophie@dogoodresearch.org

For individual dates, see Eventbrite or message me directly