Is silencing children unethical? Gatekeeping, rights and ethics.
Harry Shier Note: This blog post is a personal reflection by the author. It does not reflect the views of the ERIC team, or of any research team or institution the author is or has been a part of. Despite recent progress in broadening our understanding of ethics in research with children (much of it […]
How do research ethics committee members respond to hypothetical studies with children? Results from the MESSI Study
Taplin, S., Chalmers, J., Brown, J., Moore, T., Graham, A. & McArthur, M. (2022). How do Research Ethics Committee Members Respond to Hypothetical Studies with Children? Results from the MESSI Study. Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, 17(3), pp.254-266. This paper reports the results of a study involving 183 Australian HREC committee members […]
Research ethics committee conditions: Ethical challenges of researching with poor communities in Malawi. By Elsbeth Robson
You can download this case study as a pdf here. As an international academic team we have been engaged with researching African household and young people’s livelihood trajectories in a Malawian village since 2007. Intermittently over more than a decade we have conducted surveys, interviews and participatory research with many of the young and adult […]