Ethical and practical issues in participative research and dissemination with children and young people

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Ethical and practical issues in participative
research and dissemination with children and
young people

• Dr Sally Holland
• School of Social sciences
• Cardiff University
• Hollands1_at_cf.ac.uk

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Ethical issues in participatory research

• Brief description of study
• Summary of general ethical issues encountered
• Practice and ethics of participatory
  dissemination
• Films
• Published papers and further info.

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(Extra)ordinary lives Childrens Everyday
Relationship Cultures in Public Care

• Looked after children are consistently discussed
  in terms of a range of social problems.
• Aims to enable a group of these children and
  young people to produce their own accounts and
  representations of their everyday lives.
• Participants choose means and methods
• Exploration of possibilities and challenges of
  childrens participation in full research process

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Multi-media project sessions

• Enabling children and young people to develop
  their autobiographical multi-media identity
  projects
• Working collaboratively with new technologies
  during project sessions
• Researchers conducting an ethnography of this
  process

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General ethical issues in this project

• Consent leaflets and DVD
• Remembering that the photo club is research
• Right to withdraw data
• Developing relationships and ending the research

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Practice and ethics of participatory dissemination

• THE EVERYDAY LIVES OF YOUNG PEOPLE
• IN CARE
• invitation to watch some short films made by and
  about young people in care
• _at_ Millennium Centre
• 10th March 2008, 4pm

• 1. Examples from 3 projects film showing, stalls
  in methods fair, family fun day, policy round
  table
• 2. Issues and ethics
• Expense costing it at bidding stage
• Anonymising visual info
• Anonymity where participants know each other
• sanitising findings?

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Films

• Marshmallow (Soyinka)
• Place in me (Soyinka)
• When I get angry I growl (Soyinka)
• Me, myself and I (Ross)

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Methodological papers

• Renold, E., Holland, S., Ross, N.J., and Hillman,
  A. (2008) Becoming participant problematising
  informed consent in participatory research with
  children and young people in care, Qualitative
  Social Work, 7, 4, 431-451
• Wiles, R, Prosser, J., Bagnoli, A., Clark, A.,
  Davies, K., Holland, S. and Renold, E. (2008)
  Visual Ethics Ethical Issues in Visual Research,
  ESRC NCRM Research Methods Review Paper 011,
  http//eprints.ncrm.ac.uk/421/1/MethodsReviewPaper
  NCRM-011.pdf
• Holland, S., Renold, E., Ross, N.J. and Hillman,
  A. (2010) Power, agency and participatory
  agendas A critical exploration of young people's
  engagement in participative qualitative research,
  Childhood, 173
• Ross, N.J., Renold, E., Holland, S. and Hillman,
  A. (2009) Moving stories using mobile methods
  to explore the everyday lives of young people in
  public care, Qualitative Research, 9(5) 605623
• Substantive papers from project see
  http//www.cardiff.ac.uk/socsi/qualiti/dp4.html