This presentation was delivered at the DARIAH Annual Event 2024, held in Lisbon, Portugal. Abstract At some point during our research careers, we will grapple with an institutional review board or research ethics application. Questions about data management, informed consent and recruitment all require some degree of planning and preparation, and are inevitable within the overall workflow of a project. Most of the questions we prepare responses for are designed to facilitate reflective and ethical practices for the treatment of research subjects. The value of considering how research affects subjects is undeniable. However, at what point in the workflow of a project do we stop to consider the effect data and associated methodologies will have on us as researchers? Our paper will outline resources researchers and practitioners can draw on to scope and implement practices that raise awareness about vicarious and secondary trauma in research. We will situate this outline within a discussion of the work conducted by the Protecting the invEstigator in Traumatic Research Areas (PeTRA), a UK/Ireland Digital Humanities Association Community Interest Group (CIG). PeTRA has invested in building networks between researchers and practitioners interested in developing documentation and resources to promote research practices that address both participant and researcher experiences. We will review the existing resources PeTRA is collecting around the issue of vicarious trauma in (digital) humanities research. Following this review, we will discuss findings from a pilot study designed to gauge the manner in which ethics is taught as part of a research methodology. Initial results revealed that some training occurs formally as part of degree programmes, and that risks to the researcher are not covered as often as issues of consent, GDPR and risks to the participant. These findings have informed the development of a wider project within PeTRA to reflect on both the differences in approaches to ethics in digital humanities scholarship and practice across the UK and Ireland. We will conclude by reflecting on strategies we can adopt to integrate trauma informed practice into research workflows, networking and infrastructure building in the digital humanities. Acknowledgements The work represented here in this presentation and pilot study is the work of the authors. The authors wish to acknowledge and thank the members of the PeTRA Community Interest Group who shared their own stories, which helped to inform the type of questions within the pilot study.
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