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Our expert blog regularly features invited contributions from leading international experts engaged in innovative thinking and practice around ethical research involving children.
We also welcome expressions of interest from others involved in leading-edge practice that is advancing understandings of ethical issues in a wide range of contexts.
Expressions of interest opening soon.
Promoting dignity in research involving children: An Afrocentric perspective.
Kathomi Gatwiri I am an African, and I love telling stories. One of my favourite stories to tell about dignity and recognition is about my first graduation day. It was customary then,
Navigating complexity, risk and benefit in ‘sensitive’ research with children
Helen Beckett, Camille Warrington, Claire Soares What’s the issue? Whilst there is a growing recognition of the importance of involving children and young people in research, this does not yet equally extend
Building ERIC together: Are we there yet?
By The ERIC Team Visitors to ERIC now join us from all over the world – 179 countries to date – with website statistics indicating the ERIC resources are viewed or downloaded by
Addressing ethical issues with children: A children’s rights-based approach
Laura Lundy, Michelle Templeton, Katrina Lloyd The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC or Convention) does not mention research directly, although its successful implementation depends up on it (Lundy and
Supporting children to make informed decisions about research participation
Julia Truscott It is now standard practice across most disciplines not only to seek consent from parents/carers but to honour children’s rights and dignity by informing them directly about research participation and
Children’s images online: dilemmas of participatory research
Kay Tisdall, Marlies Kustatscher and Helen McAneney When – if ever – is it ethical to share images of children online for research purposes? We have found this a challenging question
Anonymity or recognition? Seeking harmony in an ethical grey area between researcher and researched
Harry Shier What’s the issue here? In this blog I want to explore the problem of how to harmonise the apparent dissonance between the guarantee of anonymity we (researchers) are required to
Ensuring research involving children with disabilities is inclusive, empowering and safe – what are the critical issues?
Stephen Thompson, Mary Wickenden and Mariah Cannon recently explored the main ethical challenges, and corresponding mitigation strategies, for involving children with disabilities in evidence generation. We discuss with them what important approaches
International and Canadian Child Rights Partnership’s Child and Youth Advisory Committee (CYAC)
The International and Canadian Child Rights Partnership (ICCRP) is a rights-based research collaboration, which was established following an international conference held at Ryerson University, Canada, in October 2015. The ICCRP involves scholars,
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
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
Keywords: child research insights, ethics discussions, current topics, expert perspectives
