Incidental brain findings in neuroimaging research. By Sebastián J. Lipina
You can download this ERIC case study as a pdf in English, français, español, 한국어, Türkçe and Bahasa Indonesia. Incidental brain findings (IBFs) are brain abnormalities with no outward symptoms that are detected in healthy children and adults during their participation in research studies which apply neuroimaging techniques such as structural (MRI) and functional (fMRI) […]
Negotiating confidentiality, privacy and consent in focus groups with children and young people. By Tim Moore
You can download this case study as a pdf here. In 2015, the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse contracted us to complete a study to understand what children need to be safe and feel safe in organisations such as schools, sporting groups, religious institutions and holiday camps. In focus groups, […]
Immediacy of fieldwork in participatory research with children in precarious contexts. By Tatek Abebe
You can download this case study as a pdf here. Conducting participatory fieldwork with children can result in a researcher becoming involved in their lives more broadly, blurring the lines around the researcher role. This may be particularly the case when working with children in precarious situations, such as AIDS-affected children, parentless children, child beggars, […]
Maintaining confidentiality of responses and preventing social desirability bias with an innovative method: The polling booth in research on early marriage, including child marriage. By Urvashi Wattal & Angela Chaudhuri
You can download this ERIC case study as a pdf in English, français, español, 한국어, Türkçe and Bahasa Indonesia. An impact evaluation, funded by the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie), of Breakthrough’s early marriage campaign in Bihar and Jharkhand, India, is currently being conducted by Catalyst Management Services (CMS). Breakthrough is an international Human […]
Interviewing children with disability in the presence of a parent. By Berni Kelly
You can download this ERIC case study as a pdf in English, français, español, 한국어, Türkçe and Bahasa Indonesia. Traditionally, social researchers expected parents or other adults to act as proxies for the authentic voices of children with disability. Such exclusionary approaches to childhood disability research were often grounded in assumptions about the inability of […]
Child protection and confidentiality: Surveying children’s experiences of violence, abuse and neglect. By Lorraine Radford
You can download this ERIC case study as a pdf in English, français, español, 한국어, Türkçe and Bahasa Indonesia. In 2008 the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) decided to set up a comprehensive UK-wide study of the prevalence and impact of violence towards children and young people at home, in […]
Peer research and young people in and leaving out-of-home care. By Clare Lushey and Emily R. Munro
You can download this ERIC case study as a pdf in English, français, español, 한국어, Türkçe and Bahasa Indonesia. Care Matters: Time for Change (Department for Education and Skills, 2007) identified the importance of narrowing the gap in attainment between children in and leaving out-of-home care and their peers in the general population. Right2BCared4 was […]
Obtaining informed and voluntary consent in a group context. By Muireann Ní Raghallaigh & Robbie Gilligan
You can download this ERIC case study as a pdf in English, français, español, 한국어, Türkçe and Bahasa Indonesia. In designing a doctoral research study of the experiences of unaccompanied/ separated asylum seeking young people in Ireland, it was decided that the core of the study would involve individual interviews with relevant young people, aged […]
Responding to real world ethical challenges when conducting research with young children in Tanzania. By Kate McAlpine
You can download this ERIC case study as a pdf in English, français, español, 한국어, Türkçe and Bahasa Indonesia. This case study describes the ethical dilemmas faced in the conduct of a study that sought to answer the question “How do young Tanzanian children experience care?” The study explored the heterogeneous practices that are used […]
The challenge of ongoing consent? By Michael Gaffney
You can download this ERIC case study as a pdf in English, français, español, 한국어, Türkçe and Bahasa Indonesia. When conducting ethnographic or field-based research that involves children with disability, the notion of informed consent requires the researcher to be very thoughtful about what it means to be fully informed across the full range of […]