Picturing consent: Using photographs in a visual consent form. By Jennifer Thompson
You can download this ERIC case study as a pdf in English, français, español, 한국어, Türkçe and Bahasa Indonesia. The Tiwai Island Wildlife Sanctuary in Sierra Leone is a community-based conservation and eco-tourism initiative managed by the environmental NGO, the Environmental Foundation for Africa (EFA). I conducted my Master’s research in the Tiwai communities in […]
Reciprocity in participatory research with children in precarious contexts. By Tatek Abebe
You can download this case study as a pdf here. This case study draws on fieldwork encounters when undertaking research on childhood in precarious contexts in Ethiopia. This research involved children who are found on the margins of society and political economy including AIDS-affected children, parentless children, child beggars, child laborers, and street children. Teachers, […]
Payments to young researchers in Malawi. By Elsbeth Robson, Alister Munthali, Gina Porter & Kate Hampshire
During a research project on children’s transport and mobility in sub-Saharan Africa young people, (mostly under 18 years old) were invited from secondary schools in Malawi, Ghana and South Africa, to train as young researchers to collect data from their peers alongside adult researchers (www.dur.ac.uk/child.mobility). The ethical challenge: The research team faced the dilemma of […]
Navigating ‘ethics in practice’: An ethnographic case study with young women living with HIV in Zambia.
Mackworth-Young, C. R. S., Schneiders, M. L., Wringe, A., Simwinga, M., & Bond, V. (2019). Navigating ‘ethics in practice’: An ethnographic case study with young women living with HIV in Zambia. Global Public Health, 14(12), pp.1689-1702. This article reflects on the complexities of navigating ‘ethics in practice’ (sometimes referred to as situated ethics) and ‘ethically […]
Ethics in community-based research with vulnerable children: Perspectives from Rwanda.
Betancourt, T.S., Smith Fawzi, M.C., Stevenson, A., Kanyanganzi, F., Kirk, C., et al. (2016). Ethics in community-based research with vulnerable children: Perspectives from Rwanda. PLOS ONE, 11(6), e0157042.
‘Like the stranger at a funeral who cries more than the bereaved’: Ethical dilemmas in ethnographic research with children.
Okyere, S. (2018). ‘Like the stranger at a funeral who cries more than the bereaved’: Ethical dilemmas in ethnographic research with children. Qualitative Research, 18(6), pp. 623-637.
Community perspectives on research consent involving vulnerable children in Western Kenya.
Vreeman, R., Kamaara, E., Kamanda, A., Ayuku, D., Nyandiko, W., Atwoli, L., Ayaya, S., Gisore, P., Scanlon, M., & Braitstein, P. (2012). Community perspectives on research consent involving vulnerable children in Western Kenya. Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, 7(4), pp. 44-55.
Global and local methodological and ethical questions in researching football academies in Ghana.
Dubinsky, I. (2017). Global and local methodological and ethical questions in researching football academies in Ghana. Children’s Geographies, 15(4), pp. 385-398.
Participatory action research: The distress of (not) making a difference.
Klocker, N. (2015). Participatory action research: The distress of (not) making a difference. Emotion, Space and Society, 17, pp. 37-44.
Does the requirement of getting active consent from parents in school-based research result in a biased sample? An empirical study.
Jelsma, J., Burgess, T., & Henley, L. (2012). Does the requirement of getting active consent from parents in school-based research result in a biased sample? An empirical study. Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, 7(5), pp. 56-62.