Dilemmas of dealing with distress during interviews with children. By Elsbeth Robson & Ruth Evans
You can download this ERIC case study as a pdf in English, français, español, 한국어, Türkçe and Bahasa Indonesia. We conducted research projects involving interviews with young caregivers in the context of the HIV epidemic in Zimbabwe, Tanzania and the UK. The children had recent or current caregiving responsibilities looking after a chronically sick family […]
Finding the balance between protection and participation: What do you do when follow-up services are not readily available? By Mónica Ruiz-Casares
You can download this ERIC case study as a pdf in English, français, español, 한국어, Türkçe and Bahasa Indonesia. A challenge for researchers is to find the right balance between protecting young people from risk while also providing them with an opportunity for meaningful participation. Researchers confront an ethical dilemma when appropriate follow-up services are […]
Dilemmas at school: How and when to support the inclusion of students with disability. By Jude MacArthur
You can download this ERIC case study as a pdf in English, français, español, 한국어, Türkçe and Bahasa Indonesia. In our ethnographic work with children with disability at school, our research team has observed a number of situations where children and young people have been marginalized and excluded from the curriculum, social life and wider […]
Working with socially excluded and multiply vulnerable children in research: Using participatory methods with young carers. By Jo Aldridge
Since the early 1990s, evidence from research studies on young caring has helped to inform and shape health and social care policy and practice in the UK, and has meant that children who provide informal care for their sick or disabled parents (or other relatives) in the home have access to dedicated young carers’ services. […]
Discussing ethics with children. By Kitty Jurrius
You can download this ERIC case study as a pdf in English, français, español, 한국어, Türkçe and Bahasa Indonesia. In the quest for ethical guidelines for research into and with children, children themselves are important partners, especially in research on difficult themes as in a Dutch research project of Stichting Alexander (Netherlands) on children’s voices […]
Ethical considerations when conducting research with young children on distressing subjects. By Caroline Leeson
This research explores the experiences of young children when they are in the care of the local authority, with particular reference to decision making processes. It involved working directly with children aged four years to thirteen years and asked questions such as: How much the children were involved in the decision making processes; which children […]
Picturing consent: Using photographs in a visual consent form. By Jennifer Thompson
You can download this ERIC case study as a pdf in English, français, español, 한국어, Türkçe and Bahasa Indonesia. The Tiwai Island Wildlife Sanctuary in Sierra Leone is a community-based conservation and eco-tourism initiative managed by the environmental NGO, the Environmental Foundation for Africa (EFA). I conducted my Master’s research in the Tiwai communities in […]