Research with children: Balancing protection and participation.

Bessell, S. (2024). Research with children: Balancing protection and participation. In Smyth, B.M., Martin, M.A., & Downing, M. (Eds.). The Routledge Handbook of Human Research Ethics and Integrity in Australia. (Chapter 26). Routledge: London. ebook ISBN: 9781003319733. Abstract: Over the past three to four decades there has been a dramatic increase in research involving children […]

The mis/uses of ‘voice’ in (post)qualitative research with children and young people: Histories, politics and ethics.

Mayes, E. (2019). The mis/uses of ‘voice’ in (post)qualitative research with children and young people: Histories, politics and ethics. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 32(10), pp. 1191-1209. Abstract: This article extends recent attempts to think (post)qualitative research together with decolonial, postcolonial and other critiques – as a frictional, fraught encounter. I review how […]

The relevance of ‘competence’ for enhancing or limiting children’s participation: Unpicking conceptual confusion.

Moran-Ellis, J. & Tisdall, E.K.M. (2019). The relevance of ‘competence’ for enhancing or limiting children’s participation: Unpicking conceptual confusion. Global Studies of Childhood, 9(3), pp.212-223. In this paper the authors analysed conceptualisations of competence in 67 articles, published between 2007 and 2017 in six childhood studies journals, in which ‘competence’ and its variations appeared in […]