The ethics of researching children and young adults

The ethics of researching children and young adults

Prof. Virginia Morrow

Séminaire organisé par le comité d’éthique de l’Institut IACCHOS et le Cirfase

Abstract :

The seminar will explore specific ethics questions raised in undertaking social research with children and young people. The lecture will briefly outline the rise of attention to the ethics of research in general, then focus on the ethics of research with children and young people. The seminar will set out ten topics that should be taken into consideration, using a questioning approach. I will suggest that theories, methods, and ethics are interconnected and ethics questions weave their way throughout research from start to finish and beyond. The seminar will draw on over 30 years' practical experience of with children, young people and others in vulnerable settings and situations..

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Virginia Morrow is Visiting Professor, UCL Social Research Institute, University of London, and Academic Visitor, Young Lives, Department of International Development, University of Oxford. She was Senior Research Officer/Associate Professor in ODID, and Deputy Director of Young Lives www.younglives.org.uk from 2011 to 2017, where she acted as embedded ethics lead. Her research has focused on children’s work, sociological approaches to the study of childhood and children’s rights, ethics and methods of social research with children, violence affecting children, children and ‘social capital’, and children’s understandings of family. She has been a member of numerous Advisory Groups, and Research Ethics Committees. She was co-editor of Childhood: A Journal of Global Child Research, from 2006-2016. She is Chair of Barnardo’s Centre for Expertise in Child Sexual Abuse Research Ethics Committee. She is co-author of P.Alderson & V.Morrow (2021, 2nd Sage edition/4th edition) The ethics of research with children and young people: a practical handbook. Sage, London.

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