Embracing the embarrassment: Potential of seemingly unsuccessful research interactions for critical professional development. By Katrin Velten & Julia Höke
You can download this case study as a pdf here. When children participate in research, particularly research conducted with or by children, a key goal is to authentically represent their viewpoints. Striving for authentic representation involves being critical and reflexive of power dynamics and adultism across content, methodology and ethics (Alderson & Morrow, 2020; Graham […]
Whose voice is it really? Ethics of photovoice with children in health promotion.
Abma, T., Breed, M., Lips, S., & Schrijver, J. (2022). Whose voice is it really? Ethics of photovoice with children in health promotion. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 21, Published Online Ahed of Print. Abstract: Photovoice, a way of conducting research through pictures, is considered a child-friendly method to engage children in participatory research and […]
Faceless, voiceless child – Ethics of visual anonymity in research with children and young people.
Korkiamäki, R., & Kaukko, M. (2023). Faceless, voiceless child – Ethics of visual anonymity in research with children and young people. Childhood, 30(1), pp. 55-70. Abstract: The anonymisation of research participants is a standardised ethical practice, but researchers sometimes struggle to find an ethical balance between the practice of anonymisation and participants’ wishes to reveal […]
Using the Narrative Approach to informed consent to empower young children and their educators
You can download this case study as a pdf here. Conducting research with young children is a complex process with many stakeholders and ethical considerations to navigate. One of the most enduring challenges we tend to encounter is how to engage young children in a meaningful way, and how to bring rights-based theory and children’s […]
The people in the pictures research: Taking care with photo elicitation.
Warrington, S. (2020). The people in the pictures research: Taking care with photo elicitation. In S. Dodd (Ed.), Ethics and Integrity in Visual Research Methods (Vol. 5, pp. 43-63). Bingley: Emerald Publishing Limited. Abstract: This chapter introduces the approaches and methods employed in a four-country research project that resulted in the 2017 report The People […]
Working with socially excluded and multiply vulnerable children in research: Using participatory methods with young carers. By Jo Aldridge
Since the early 1990s, evidence from research studies on young caring has helped to inform and shape health and social care policy and practice in the UK, and has meant that children who provide informal care for their sick or disabled parents (or other relatives) in the home have access to dedicated young carers’ services. […]
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 […]
