‘Your life looks like a fairytale’ : Challenges in building rapport with children and youth in contexts of protracted conflict. By Cadhla Fiona o’Sullivan

You can download this case study as a pdf here. My PhD research, titled ‘Artisans of Peace’, was conducted in the post conflict environment of Bogotá, Colombia. It consisted of an Arts based intervention with children and youth (ages 6-18) across 3 municipalities of Bogotá. The study adopted an ethnographic approach to the fieldwork, over […]

An analytical tool to help researchers develop partnerships with children and adolescents.

Shier, H. (2019). An analytical tool to help researchers develop partnerships with children and adolescents. In I. Berson, M. Berson, & C. Gray (Eds.), Participatory methodologies to elevate children’s voice and agency (pp. 295-316). Charlotte NC: Information Age. Chapter Abstract: All researchers whose research involves children and adolescents have decisions to make about how and […]

Negotiating autonomy: Childhoods in rural Bolivia.

Punch, S. (2001). Negotiating autonomy: Childhoods in rural Bolivia. In L. Alanen & B. Mayall (Eds.), Conceptualizing child-adult relations (p. 22-36). London: RoutledgeFalmer. Paperback ISBN: 9-780-41523-1596; eBook ISBN: 9-780-20346-7220.