Abstract

In this chapter we compare two projects with Māori participants that highlight ethical issues related to offering indigenous participants the opportunity to be named in research outputs. In the first project, children taking part in a photo-elicitation study all agreed to be named following an ongoing process of confirmation. In the second project, we decided not to offer men with a history of criminal offending the opportunity to be named because of the potential for future harm to the men and past victims. Using these two examples and existing indigenous scholarship, we discuss issues for researchers, indigenous community members, and ethics committees to bear in mind when considering whether it is appropriate to offer indigenous participants the opportunity to be named in a particular study.