• ISBN13: 9780857021366
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Education & Psychology
• Publisher: Sage Publications
• Publisher Imprint: Sage Publications
• Publication Date: June 15, 2011
• Pages: 176
• Original Price: GBP 95.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 436 grams

Ethical questions are at the centre of research with children and young people. This clear and practical text informs students and researchers about the relevant laws and guidelines and current debates in research ethics. Priscilla Alderson and Virginia Morrow cover ethics at every stage of research, and with all kinds of young research participants, particularly those who are vulnerable or neglected. They break down the process of research into ten stages, each with its own set of related questions and problems, and they show how these need to be addressed.

This practical book is essential reading for anyone who conducts or reviews research with children or young people.

Priscilla Alderson is Emerita Professor of Childhood Studies at the Institute of Education University of London.

Virginia Morrow is Senior Research Officer in the Department of International Development, University of Oxford.

Priscilla Alderson is Emerita Professor of Childhood Studies at University College London Social Research Institute. She has been involved with medical research ethics committees for nearly 40 years, and more recently with committees that review social research. She has advised on the writing of research ethics guidelines for a range of medical, nursing, social and psychological authorities. She has researched many aspects of children’s lives and rights, from premature babies to young people aged up to 18 (see ResearchGate). Recent books include Childhoods, Real or Imagined: An Introduction to Critical Realism and Childhood Studies (Routledge 2013) and The Politics of Childhoods, Real or Imagined (Routledge 2016).  





Virginia Morrow is Visiting Professor, UCL Social Research Institute, and Research Associate, Young Lives, Department of International Development, University of Oxford. Her main research interests are sociology and history of childhood, child labour and children’s work, children’s rights, methods and ethics of social research with children; children’s understandings of family and other social environments. She has been a member of numerous advisory groups and research ethics committees.  She is the author of numerous papers and reports and she was a co-editor of Childhood: A Journal of Global Child Research, 2006-2016, also published by Sage.