Ethical considerations when conducting research with children and young people with disabilities in health and social care.
McNeilly, P., Macdonald, G., & Kelly, B. (2020). Ethical considerations when conducting research with children and young people with disabilities in health and social care. Nurse Researcher, 28(1), pp. 9-15. All children, including those identified as having disabilities, have the right to participate in matters affecting their lives. This paper contributes to the growing research […]
Exploring critical issues in the ethical involvement of children with disabilities in evidence generation and use.
Thompson, S., Cannon, M., & Wickenden, M. (2020). Exploring critical issues in the ethical involvement of children with disabilities in evidence generation and use. Innocenti Working Paper 2020-04. Florence: UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti. This paper provides an overview of the key issues drawn from the literature reviewed and suggests established and potential mitigation […]
How to conduct good quality research on violence against children with disabilities: Key ethical, measurement, and research principles.
Kyegombe, N., Banks, L. M., Kelly, S., Kuper, H., & Devries, K. M. (2019). How to conduct good quality research on violence against children with disabilities: Key ethical, measurement, and research principles. BMC Public Health, 19(1), 1133. Abstract: Approximately one billion children experience violence every year. Violence against children is an urgent global public health […]
Reflexively conducting research with ethnically diverse children with disabilities.
Ajodhia, A. (2019). Reflexively conducting research with ethnically diverse children with disabilities. In I. R. Berson, M. J. Berson, & C. Gray (Eds.), Participatory Methodologies to Elevate Children’s Voice and Agency (pp. 117-150). Charlotte, North Carolina: Information Age Publishing. Abstract: This reflexive chapter explores the process of engaging ethnically diverse children with disabilities within participatory […]
Tongan children’s involvement in research. By Jo Aldridge
You can download this case study as a pdf here. In 2015, for the first time, children and young people in Tonga were invited to take part in research about their lives. From the UK, I worked with the project leaders of two Tongan national charities, Ma’a Ffine mo e Famili (For Women and Families; […]
Including children and young people with cognitive disability in research about personal safety and abuse preventions. By Sally Robinson
Our work with children and young people with disability over the past several years has involved carefully building the conditions necessary for including a wide range of children and young people in research about personal safety and abuse prevention. While there is common agreement that children and young people have the right to be supported […]
Ethical considerations when using incentives in youth research. By Kathryn Seymour
You can download this ERIC case study as a pdf in English, français, español, 한국어, Türkçe and Bahasa Indonesia. The Queensland Youth Development Research Project (YDRP) used questionnaires to explore the role of youth development programmes in the positive development of young people, aged 12-18 years. We were interested in gaining a better understanding about […]
Reciprocity in participatory research with children in precarious contexts. By Tatek Abebe
You can download this case study as a pdf here. This case study draws on fieldwork encounters when undertaking research on childhood in precarious contexts in Ethiopia. This research involved children who are found on the margins of society and political economy including AIDS-affected children, parentless children, child beggars, child laborers, and street children. Teachers, […]
Payments to young researchers in Malawi. By Elsbeth Robson, Alister Munthali, Gina Porter & Kate Hampshire
During a research project on children’s transport and mobility in sub-Saharan Africa young people, (mostly under 18 years old) were invited from secondary schools in Malawi, Ghana and South Africa, to train as young researchers to collect data from their peers alongside adult researchers (www.dur.ac.uk/child.mobility). The ethical challenge: The research team faced the dilemma of […]
Payment in different contexts: How can payment reflect local considerations? By Virginia Morrow
You can download this ERIC case study as a pdf in English, français, español, 한국어, Türkçe and Bahasa Indonesia. Young Lives is an international study of childhood poverty, involving 12,000 children growing up over 15 years in Ethiopia, the state of Andhra Pradesh in India, Peru and Vietnam. Two cohorts of children – a younger […]
