Negotiating power dynamics through co‐reflexivity in research with young children in disadvantaged communities.
El Gemayel, S. M., & Salema, Y. (2023). Negotiating power dynamics through co‐reflexivity in research with young children in disadvantaged communities. Children & Society, 37(5), pp. 1596-1611. Abstract: This paper addresses how unequal power dynamics in research with young children in disadvantaged communities can be negotiated through co-reflexivity. It explores this through two different projects, […]
The challenge of ongoing consent? By Michael Gaffney
You can download this ERIC case study as a pdf in English, français, español, 한국어, Türkçe and Bahasa Indonesia. When conducting ethnographic or field-based research that involves children with disability, the notion of informed consent requires the researcher to be very thoughtful about what it means to be fully informed across the full range of […]
Using magnets to visualise informed consent in school-based fieldwork with children. By Marlies Kustatscher
With my PhD research I wanted to explore how ethnicity, gender and social class intersect in young children’s social identities and relationships in a culturally diverse primary school. This research focus suggested a methodology that would allow me to spend time with, observe and talk to children during their everyday life at school. I started […]
Doing research with children: Making choices on ethics and methodology that encourage children’s participation.
Kyritsi, K. (2019). Doing research with children: Making choices on ethics and methodology that encourage children’s participation. Journal of Childhood Studies, 44(2). This is an open access article. The full pdf is freely available to download via the Publisher’s Link below.
Embedding young children’s participation rights into research: How the interactive narrative approach enhances meaningful participation.
Mayne, F., & Howitt, C. (2019). Embedding young children’s participation rights into research: How the interactive narrative approach enhances meaningful participation. International Journal of Early Childhood, 51(3), pp. 335-353. This research explored how young children’s research participation can be enhanced when an interactive narrative approach is embedded within research to enhance children’s consent to participation […]
Promoting children’s informed assent in research participation.
Dockett, S., Perry, B., & Kearney, E. (2012). Promoting children’s informed assent in research participation. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 26(7), pp. 802-828.
To stop or not to stop: Dissent and undue burden as reasons to stop participation in paediatric research.
Bos, W., Westra, A., de Beaufort, I., & van de Vathorst, S. (2017). To stop or not to stop: Dissent and undue burden as reasons to stop participation in paediatric research. Journal of Medical Ethics, 43(8), pp. 519-523.
When participants in genomic research grow up: Contact and consent at the age of majority.
Brothers, K. B., Holm, I. A., Childerhose, J. E., Antommaria, A. H. M., Bernhardt, B. A., & al., e. (2016). When participants in genomic research grow up: Contact and consent at the age of majority. The Journal of Pediatrics, 168, pp. 226-231.
More a marathon than a hurdle: Towards children’s informed consent in a study on safety.
Moore, T. P., McArthur, M., & Noble-Carr, D. (2017). More a marathon than a hurdle: Towards children’s informed consent in a study on safety. Qualitative Research, 18(1), pp. 88-107.
