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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm; background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;">Dear Colleagues,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0cm;padding:0cm;background:white"><o:p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm; background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;">You are receiving this email because you are a faculty member at a Canadian university. You are being
contacted to participate in a SSHRC-funded survey on difficult representations and content warnings in Canadian postsecondary schools.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0cm;padding:0cm;background:white"><a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;">
This project is run by Dr. Michelle Miller (Ontario College of Art and Design University), Dr. Hannah Dyer (Brock University) and Dr. Natalie Kori-Towe (Concordia).</span><o:p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;"> </span></o:p></a></span></p>
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm; background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;">The purpose of this study</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm; background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;"><b>,
“Triggering Education: Relational Readings of Trigger Warnings in the Canadian Post-Secondary Classroom,”</b></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm; background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;">
is to gather information about both faculty and student experiences of encountering difficult representations (such as representations of violence) in courses. This survey, which will take approximately 30 minutes to complete, will ask you to tell stories
about your experiences with difficult course material as a learner and/or as an instructor, and to describe your attitudes toward, and potentially use of content warnings (also known as trigger warnings) in educational spaces. This research has the potential
to lead to enhanced professional practice and improved understanding between students and instructors.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0cm;padding:0cm;background:white"><o:p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm; background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;">Your participation would involve taking a 30-minute survey that you can stop, save, and resume at your convenience.
You may drop out at any time without facing any retribution or penalty. At the end of the survey, you will have the option to opt into Phase 2 of this study, which involves individual interviews. The survey is available until June 1, 2021. All responses will
be anonymized and kept strictly confidential.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0cm;padding:0cm;background:white"><br>
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm; background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;">As an incentive to participate, participants will be entered into a draw to win one of 50 $25 gift certificates
for Chapters/Indigo.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm; background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;">We would welcome your help in sending this invitation to your friends and colleagues.</span><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-CA"><o:p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
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</span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm; background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;">Follow this link to the Survey:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#201F1E;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0cm;padding:0cm;background:white"><br>
</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://brock.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_em7A2rSNpKvuFhP"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;">https://brock.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_em7A2rSNpKvuFhP</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#201F1E"><br>
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm; background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;">Please feel very welcome to send this survey to any students or faculty members you know.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#201F1E"><o:p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; color: black; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm; background: white;">This survey received ethics clearance from the Research Ethics Offices of OCADU (2020-44), Brock (20-040) and Concordia University
(30013515). If you have concerns regarding participation in this study, please contact OCADU’s REB Secretariat at 416.977.6000 x4368 or cpineda@ocadu.ca.</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0cm;padding:0cm;background:white"><o:p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
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<div style="font-family:Tahoma; font-size:13px"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;">Dr. Michelle Miller Stafford</span></div>
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