Ethical provocations for early childhood research.

Flewitt, R. (2022). Ethical provocations for early childhood research. In Kumpulainen, K., Kajama, A., Erstad, O., Mäkitalo, Å., Drotner, K., & Jakobsdóttir, S. (Eds.). Nordic Childhoods in the Digital Age, Chapter 19 (pp. 207-213). Routledge: Oxon / New York. ISBN: 9780367702526. Book description: This book adds to the international research literature on contemporary Nordic childhoods […]

Research ethics and digitising early childhood.

Dobson, M., Murcia, K., Gifkins, K., & Holloway, D. (2021). Research Ethics and Digitising Early Childhood. In: Holloway, D., Willson, M., Murcia, K., Archer, C., Stocco, F. (Eds). Young Children’s Rights in a Digital World. Children’s Well-Being: Indicators and Research, vol 23. Springer: Cham. ISBN: 978-3-030-65915-8. e-ISBN: 978-3-030-65916-5. Abstract: Research focusing on young children and […]

Ethics and researching young children’s digital literacy practices.

Flewitt, R. (2019). Ethics and researching young children’s digital literacy practices. In Erstad, O., Flewitt, R., Kümmerling-Meibauer, B., & Pereira, Í.S.(Eds.). The Routledge Handbook of Digital Literacies in Early Childhood (Chapter 4). Routledge: London. ebook ISBN: 9780203730638. Chapter Abstract: This chapter considers the ethics of doing research about young children’s offline and online digital literacy […]

Ethics learning from Young Lives: 20 years on.

Crivello, G., & Morrow, V. (2021). Ethics learning from Young Lives: 20 years on. Oxford: Young Lives. Abstract: Many complex ethics questions arise in the conduct of longitudinal research in low- and – middle income countries (LMICs), particularly in studies that involve children and other potentially vulnerable social groups over long periods of time. Young […]

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 […]