Robinson, L. (2025). The Research Ethics Tree: engaging children and young people with research ethics using an interactive tool. Journal of Creative Research Methods, 1(1), pp. 158-166.
This open access research note shares the ‘Research Ethics Tree,’ a tool created to meaningfully engage children and young people in on-going, interactive conversations about informed consent and research participation. The tree is decorated with tokens covering key (but often abstract) informed consent concepts (such as confidentiality and anonymity) and permission relating to photography and recording. The children can engage with, take off and handle the tokens as the discuss, ask questions and revisit the different concepts.
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