Ethical considerations of children’s involvement in school-based research: balancing children’s provision, protection, and participation rights.
Robinson, C. (2025). Ethical considerations of children’s involvement in school-based research: Balancing children’s provision, protection, and participation rights. Research Ethics, 21(3), pp. 480-502. Abstract: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child sets out the rights to which all children should have access. Included in the Convention is children’s right to participate and […]
Utilizing youth advocates and community agencies in research with LGBTQ young people: Ethical and practical considerations.
Panfil, V.R., Miller, J., & Greathouse, M., (2017). Utilizing youth advocates and community agencies in research with LGBTQ young people: Ethical and practical considerations. In Castro, I.E., Swauger, M., & Harger, B. (Eds.). Researching Children and Youth: Methodological Issues, Strategies, and Innovations. Emerald Publishing Limited. This chapter shares the authors’ experiences undertaking research with urban […]
The ethics of child maltreatment surveys in relation to participant distress: Implications of social science evidence, ethical guidelines, and law.
Mathews, B., MacMillan, H. L., Meinck, F., Finkelhor, D., Haslam, D., Tonmyr, L., Gonzalez, A., Afifi, T.O., Scott, J.G., Pacella, R.E., Higgins, D.J., Thomas, H., Collin-Vézina, D., & Walsh, K. (2022). The ethics of child maltreatment surveys in relation to participant distress: Implications of social science evidence, ethical guidelines, and law. Child Abuse & Neglect, […]
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 […]
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 […]
IRBs and the protection-inclusion dilemma: Finding a balance.
Friesen, P., Gelinas, L., Kirby, A., Strauss, D. H., & Bierer, B. E. (2023). IRBs and the protection-inclusion dilemma: Finding a balance. The American Journal of Bioethics, 23(6), pp.75-88. Abstract: Institutional review boards, tasked with facilitating ethical research, are often pulled in competing directions. In what we call the protection-inclusion dilemma, we acknowledge the tensions […]
The role of research ethics committees: Friend or foe in educational research? An exploratory study.
Brown, C., Spiro, J., & Quinton, S. (2020). The role of research ethics committees: Friend or foe in educational research? An exploratory study. British Educational Research Journal, 46(4), pp. 747-769. Abstract: Ethics committees have an important role to play in ensuring ethical standards (e.g. BERA, ESRC, RCUK recommendations) are met by educational researchers. Balancing obligations […]
The IRB as gatekeeper: Effects on research with children and youth.
Harger, B., & Quintela, M. (2017). The IRB as gatekeeper: Effects on research with children and youth. In Castro, I.E., Swauger, M., & Harger, B. (Eds.). Researching children and youth: Methodological issues, strategies, and innovations. (Sociological Studies of Children and Youth, Vol. 22) (pp. 11-33). Emerald Publishing Limited: Bingley, UK. ISBN: 978-1-78714-099-8; e-ISBN: 978-1-78714-098-1. Chapter […]