Making sense of ‘slippages’: Re-evaluating ethics for digital research with children and young people.
Cutting, K., & Peacock, S. (2021). Making sense of ‘slippages’: Re-evaluating ethics for digital research with children and young people. Children’s Geographies, Published Online Ahead of Print. Abstract: In this paper, we argue that institutional ethical procedures do not properly prepare children’s geographers to conduct digital research with children and young people (CYP). To address […]
Ethics committees, journal publication and research with children.
Robson, E. (2018). Ethics committees, journal publication and research with children, Children’s Geographies, 16(5), pp. 473-480. This is an open access editorial reflecting on ethics in relation to ethics review processes and journal publication in research involving children as it pertains to that point in time (2018). An open access article. ( Publisher’s Link )
The role of research ethics committees: Friend or foe in educational research? An exploratory study.
Brown, C., Spiro, J., & Quinton, S. (2020). The role of research ethics committees: Friend or foe in educational research? An exploratory study. British Educational Research Journal, 46(4), pp. 747-769. Abstract: Ethics committees have an important role to play in ensuring ethical standards (e.g. BERA, ESRC, RCUK recommendations) are met by educational researchers. Balancing obligations […]
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 […]
Human Research Ethics Committee experiences and views about children’s participation in research: Results from the MESSI study.
Taplin, S., Chalmers, J., Brown, J., Moore, T., Graham, A., & McArthur, M. (2021). Human Research Ethics Committee experiences and views about children’s participation in research: Results from the MESSI study. Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, 17(1-2), pp.70-78. This paper draws on survey data from 229 HREC members and 42 HREC managers […]
