Picturing informed consent: Exploring participatory visual methods to enhance meaningful consent conversations with young people.

Thompson, J. A., Gonzalez, E., & Ruiz-Casares, M. (2025). Picturing informed consent: Exploring participatory visual methods to enhance meaningful consent conversations with young people. Research Ethics, Published Online Ahead of Print. Abstract: Informed consent (IC) is a cornerstone of ethical research, ensuring participants are informed and provide voluntary agreement to participate. Yet IC remains complex, […]

The Research Ethics Tree: engaging children and young people with research ethics using an interactive tool.

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 […]

“It helped me feel like a researcher”: Reflections on a capacity-building program to support teens as co-researchers on a participatory project.

Nelson Ferguson, K., Coen, S. E., & Gilliland, J. (2025). “It helped me feel like a researcher”: Reflections on a capacity-building program to support teens as co-researchers on a participatory project. Journal of Adolescent Research, 40(4), pp. 827-858. In this paper the authors describe the Teens Talk Vaping project which took a by-youth-for-youth research approach […]

Standardising training for young people’s research advisory groups.

Tsang, V. W., Simkin, G., & Stevens, K. (2023). Standardising training for young people’s research advisory groups. The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, 7(11), pp. 760-761. This article explores the expansion of, and best practice, for young people’s research advisory groups, specifically in relation to patient-oriented health care. ( Publisher’s Link )

Implementing a youth advisory board to inform adolescent health and medication safety research.

Abraham, O., Rosenberger, C. A., & Poku, V. O. (2023). Implementing a youth advisory board to inform adolescent health and medication safety research. Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy, 19(4), pp. 681-685. This commentary describes the development, benefits, challenges, and lessons learned from the first YAB at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW) Collaborative Research on […]

Youth participation in mental health and substance use research: Implementation, perspectives, and learnings of the Matilda Centre Youth Advisory Board.

Prior, K., Ross, K., Conroy, C., Barrett, E., Bock, S. G., Boyle, J., Snijder, M., Teesson, M., & Chapman, C. (2022). Youth participation in mental health and substance use research: Implementation, perspectives, and learnings of the Matilda Centre Youth Advisory Board. Mental Health & Prevention, 28, Article No: 200251. Abstract Background The benefits of embedding […]

Co‐production to understand online help‐seeking for young people experiencing emotional abuse and neglect: Building capabilities, adapting research methodology and evaluating involvement and impact.

Bennett, V., Gill, C., Miller, P., Wood, A., Bennett, C., NeurOX YPAG, & Singh, I. (2022). Co‐production to understand online help‐seeking for young people experiencing emotional abuse and neglect: Building capabilities, adapting research methodology and evaluating involvement and impact. Health Expectations, 25(6), pp. 3143-3163. This paper describes flexibility involved in working on and off-line through […]