How will you ensure that there is adequate opportunity for participation of men, women and people with non-binary identities in the research team in order to form a diversified team?

How might your research teams’ personal values, experiences, interests, beliefs and political commitments play a role at each stage of the research process?

What are the perspectives of the target population/community of interest?

What social variables are relevant in the study context?

What inequities (between and within groups of people) exist in relation to the health issue/intervention to be researched?

How gender and other social variables impact on who wants to be involved; who is able to be involved; how those who are involved interact with each other, and how that affects their contributions (e.g. are power dynamics influencing who is able to speak up in your meetings). These factors can be subtle (e.g. men speaking more often and for longer; hierarchical position amongst men with juniors not speaking in the presence of seniors) or unsubtle (e.g. men speaking on behalf of or over women).

How will you identify and select stakeholders to include diverse representation of the community, especially considering that women or marginalized people may be selected as tokenistic representatives.

What methodology is appropriate for your study?

What data needs to be collected and disaggregated (e.g. age, gender identity, sex, social demographics of study participants) to enable an intersectional gender analysis?

Who is involved in the data collection and how will data be collected?

How will interview questions be formulated to explore intersecting social variables, including how gender intersects with other axes of inequality (e.g. age and disability, among others)?

Plan data analysis keeping in mind that different groups of people may be affected variably by the same health condition or issue.

How can the findings be interpreted within the wider community context?

Are there any unexpected findings (e.g. social variables that only emerge as important during the data analysis?)

What do the findings mean for policy, practice and the community, especially in relation to addressing inequalities and vulnerabilities?

How to present findings that are sensitive, inclusive and unbiased? What gender-sensitive (responsive) communication products and derivatives will be developed?

How do you ensure research findings reach vulnerable and disadvantaged groups?

What are the sociocultural and gender relation domains of the study context?

What are the sociocultural values and gender dimensions of the implementers?

What are the researcher biases and power dynamics within the team and the various project areas, and how can they be mitigated?

How do participants with the social identities under research want to be involved in the implementation of the IR project?