Exploring inequalities in health with young people through online focus groups: Navigating the methodological and ethical challenges.

Woodrow, N., Fairbrother, H., Crowder, M., Goyder, E., Griffin, N., Holding, E., & Quirk, H. (2022). Exploring inequalities in health with young people through online focus groups: navigating the methodological and ethical challenges. Qualitative Research Journal, 22(2), pp. 197-208. In this article the authors share the ethical and methodological challenges, and decisions made, in undertaking […]

Embodying the least-adult role.

Garratt, L. (2021). Embodying the least‐adult role. British Educational Research Journal, 47(5), pp. 1194-1208. Abstract: The aim of this article is to emphasise physicality and embodiment in child-centred research, fieldwork and intellectual activity. It will argue that research is not a separate form of action, placing the researcher in a position of epistemological privilege, but […]

Research ethics in childhood research.

Hanson, K., Spyrou, S., (Moderators). (2023). Research ethics in childhood research. Childhood, 30(4), pp. 1-17. Abstract: The journal Childhood has been one of the pioneering fora where children and childhood have been given a prominent place in research, both through considering childhood as an autonomous social group worthy of investigation and by relying on children’s […]

Ethical research involving children: Encouraging reflexive engagement in research with children and young people.

Graham, A., Powell, M. & Taylor, N. (2015). Ethical research involving children: Encouraging reflexive engagement in research with children and young people. Children & Society, 29(5), pp. 331-343. Abstract: Research involving children raises complex and well-documented ethical questions and challenges that extend far beyond the reach of formal review and governance systems, where these exist. […]