Making sense of ‘slippages’: Re-evaluating ethics for digital research with children and young people.

Cutting, K., & Peacock, S. (2021). Making sense of ‘slippages’: Re-evaluating ethics for digital research with children and young people. Children’s Geographies, Published Online Ahead of Print. Abstract: In this paper, we argue that institutional ethical procedures do not properly prepare children’s geographers to conduct digital research with children and young people (CYP). To address […]

Children and adolescents’ voices and the implications for ethical research.

Alves, H., Gibbs, L., Marinkovic, K., Brito, I., & Sheikhattari, P. (2022). Children and adolescents’ voices and the implications for ethical research. Childhood, 29(1), 126-143. Abstract: A discussion on the ethical context and barriers to include children’s voices in research and clarify the role of Research Ethic Committees. Twenty-one researchers from eight countries participated in […]

The only way is ethics: Reflections on applying for National Health Service ethical approval and governance for research with children.

Wilkinson, C. & Wilkinson, S. (2019). The only way is ethics: Reflections on applying for National Health Service ethical approval and governance for research with children. Children’s Geographies, 17(4). pp. 480-486. Abstract: In this Viewpoints piece, we reflect on the process of applying for National Health Service (NHS) ethical approval and governance for research with […]

Reflections on a post-qualitative inquiry with children/young people: Exploring and furthering a performative research ethics.

Romm, N.R.A. (2020). Reflections on a post-qualitative inquiry with children/young people: Exploring and furthering a performative research ethics. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung (FQS), 21(1), Art. 6. Abstract: In this article I discuss a number of ethical issues surrounding the USA-commissioned Belmont report (National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioural Research, 1979), […]

Ethics committees, journal publication and research with children.

Robson, E. (2018). Ethics committees, journal publication and research with children, Children’s Geographies, 16(5), pp. 473-480. This is an open access editorial reflecting on ethics in relation to ethics review processes and journal publication in research involving children as it pertains to that point in time (2018). An open access article. ( Publisher’s Link )

Research ethics in a changing social sciences landscape.

Brown, N. (2023). Research ethics in a changing social sciences landscape. Research Ethics, 19(2), pp.157-165. Abstract: The role of research ethics committees, and research ethics issues more broadly are often not viewed in the context of the development of scientific methods and the academic community. This topic piece seeks to redress this gap. I begin […]

IRBs and the protection-inclusion dilemma: Finding a balance.

Friesen, P., Gelinas, L., Kirby, A., Strauss, D. H., & Bierer, B. E. (2023). IRBs and the protection-inclusion dilemma: Finding a balance. The American Journal of Bioethics, 23(6), pp.75-88. Abstract: Institutional review boards, tasked with facilitating ethical research, are often pulled in competing directions. In what we call the protection-inclusion dilemma, we acknowledge the tensions […]