The challenges and opportunities of conducting PhD participatory action research on sensitive issues: Young people and sexting.
York, L., MacKenzie, A., & Purdy, N. (2021). The challenges and opportunities of conducting PhD participatory action research on sensitive issues: Young people and sexting. Citizenship, Social and Economics Education, 20(2), pp. 73-83. This paper presents the challenges and opportunities of using a participatory action research (PAR) methodology, including a young people’s advisory group, in […]
Adolescents’ experiences of participating in sensitive research: A scoping review of qualitative studies.
Neelakantan, L., Fry, D., Florian, L., & Meinck, F. (2023). Adolescents’ experiences of participating in sensitive research: A scoping review of qualitative studies. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 24(3), pp. 1405-1426. This scoping review reveals the benefits and burdens for adolescents participating in qualitative research on sensitive topics. Participants across the various studies included in the […]
Exploring inequalities in health with young people through online focus groups: Navigating the methodological and ethical challenges.
Woodrow, N., Fairbrother, H., Crowder, M., Goyder, E., Griffin, N., Holding, E., & Quirk, H. (2022). Exploring inequalities in health with young people through online focus groups: navigating the methodological and ethical challenges. Qualitative Research Journal, 22(2), pp. 197-208. In this article the authors share the ethical and methodological challenges, and decisions made, in undertaking […]
The ethics of gatekeeping: How guarding access influences digital child and youth research.
Fecke, M., Fehr, A., Schlütz, D., & Zillich, A. F. (2022). The ethics of gatekeeping: How guarding access influences digital child and youth research. Media and communication, 10(1), pp. 361-370. Abstract: Digital child and youth research is often conducted in schools involving minors. Corresponding research designs raise two related sets of problems: Ethical issues with […]
A spy in the family: Trust in sensitive research with children.
Henze-Pedersen, S. (2021). A spy in the family: Trust in sensitive research with children. In Spencer, G. (Ed.). Ethics and Integrity in Research with Children and Young People: Advances in Research Ethics and Integrity. (pp. 135-148). Emerald Publishing Limited This chapter explores the ethical challenges related to the study of children in highly complex and […]
Embodying the least-adult role.
Garratt, L. (2021). Embodying the least‐adult role. British Educational Research Journal, 47(5), pp. 1194-1208. Abstract: The aim of this article is to emphasise physicality and embodiment in child-centred research, fieldwork and intellectual activity. It will argue that research is not a separate form of action, placing the researcher in a position of epistemological privilege, but […]
Methods, ethics, and cross-language considerations in research with ethnic minority children.
Chatham, R. E., & Mixer, S. J. (2021). Methods, ethics, and cross-language considerations in research with ethnic minority children. Nursing Research, 70(5), pp.383-390. This paper shares knowledge gained from conducting an ethnonursing research study focused on providing a voice for ethnic minority children in childhood obesity literature. The article abstract can be viewed via the […]
Research relationships and responsibilities: ‘Doing’ research with ‘vulnerable’ participants: Introduction to the special edition.
Von Benzon, N., & Van Blerk, L. (2019). Research relationships and responsibilities: ‘Doing’ research with ‘vulnerable’ participants: Introduction to the special edition. Social & Cultural Geography, 18(7), pp. 895-905. This article introduces a special edition of Social and Cultural Geography on ‘Doing’ research with ‘vulnerable’ participants. The authors describe that the “particularly unique contribution presented […]
18 years of ethics in child-computer interaction research: A systematic literature review.
Van Mechelen, M., Baykal, G. E., Dindler, C., Eriksson, E., & Iversen, O. S. (2020, June). 18 years of ethics in child-computer interaction research: A systematic literature review. In Proceedings of the interaction design and children conference (pp. 161-183). Abstract: Recent years have seen growing interest in ‘ethics’ within the Child-Computer Interaction (CCI) community. In […]
“This is not me”–A critical discussion about methodological issues concerning agency and participatory sense-making in qualitative research with children.
Bjorbækmo, W. S., Greve, A., & Asbjørnslett, M. (2022). “This is not me”–A critical discussion about methodological issues concerning agency and participatory sense-making in qualitative research with children. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 21. This open access article explores and discusses children’s agency in the context of research. It draws on three situations recorded in […]