Advancing a Childhood Ethics Approach to Research During COVID-19
As subsequent waves of COVID-19 continue to hit many countries around the world, the impacts of the pandemic on children and young people become more important to acknowledge, prioritize, assess, and address. Preliminary analyses indicate that children’s experiences have been significant and unique. However, young people living in resource-limited regions have been almost entirely […]
The responsible use of data for and about children: treading carefully and ethically
In this series of Q&A, we speak with Stefaan G. Verhulst and Andrew Young from GovLab, (an action-oriented do-tank located at NYU) who are working in collaboration with UNICEF on an initiative called Responsible Data for Children initiative (RD4C) . Its focus is on data – the risks it poses to children, as well as […]
The Ethics and Politics of Knowledge Production in Childhood Studies
Spyros Spyrou, European University Cyprus Childhood Studies has devoted considerable energy and effort discussing and reflecting on research ethics. The challenge with ethics is that it infuses all aspects of research and knowledge production and hence it is impossible to narrow down to a set of principles or guidelines. There are certainly well-established and tried […]
STRONG FOUNDATIONS AND EMERGING THEMES
For researchers engaged with ethical research involving children, Priscilla Alderson and Virginia Morrow need no introduction. Their Handbook has shaped so much of what we know about ethical research involving children. Priscilla and Virginia have just released the fourth version of the Handbook (Sage 2nd edition) and we are privileged to have the opportunity […]
ETHICS AND CHILDISM
By John Wall, Rutgers University Considering matters of ethics in research involving children invites us to engage reflexively with notions of childhood and of ethics. I am a philosophical ethicist who originally came to childhood studies with the question of how children have been understood in different times and places in ethical theory. It […]