Dr Sally Holland School of Social sciences Cardiff University [email protected]

Ethical and practical issues in participative

research and dissemination with children and young

peopleDr Sally HollandDr Sally Holland

School of Social sciencesSchool of Social sciencesCardiff UniversityCardiff University

[email protected]@cf.ac.uk

Ethical issues in participatory Ethical issues in participatory researchresearch

Brief description of studyBrief description of study Summary of general ethical issues Summary of general ethical issues

encounteredencountered Practice and ethics of participatory Practice and ethics of participatory

disseminationdissemination FilmsFilms Published papers and further info.Published papers and further info.

((Extra)ordinary lives: Children’s Everyday Extra)ordinary lives: Children’s Everyday Relationship Cultures in Public CareRelationship Cultures in Public Care

Looked after children are Looked after children are consistently discussed in consistently discussed in terms of a range of social terms of a range of social problems. problems.

Aims to enable a group of Aims to enable a group of these children and young these children and young people to produce their people to produce their own accounts and own accounts and representations of their representations of their everyday lives.everyday lives.

Participants choose means Participants choose means and methodsand methods

Exploration of possibilities Exploration of possibilities and challenges of and challenges of children’s participation in children’s participation in full research processfull research process

Enabling Enabling children and children and young people young people to develop to develop their their autobiographicautobiographical multi-media al multi-media identity identity projectsprojects

Working Working collaboratively collaboratively with new with new technologies technologies during project during project sessionssessions

Researchers Researchers conducting an conducting an ethnography of ethnography of this processthis process

Multi-media project sessions

General ethical issues in this General ethical issues in this projectproject

Consent: leaflets Consent: leaflets and DVDand DVD

Remembering that Remembering that the ‘photo club’ is the ‘photo club’ is researchresearch

Right to withdraw Right to withdraw datadata

Developing Developing relationships and relationships and ending the ending the researchresearch

Practice and ethics of Practice and ethics of participatory disseminationparticipatory dissemination

1. Examples1. Examples from 3 from 3 projects: film showing, projects: film showing, stalls in methods fair, stalls in methods fair, family fun day, policy family fun day, policy round tableround table

2. Issues and ethics2. Issues and ethics Expense: costing it at Expense: costing it at

bidding stagebidding stage Anonymising visual infoAnonymising visual info Anonymity where Anonymity where

participants know each participants know each otherother

‘‘sanitising’ findings?sanitising’ findings?

THE EVERYDAY LIVES OF YOUNG PEOPLE

IN CARE

*invitation to watch some short films made by and about young people in care*

@ Millennium Centre10th March 2008, 4pm

FilmsFilms

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

Methodological papersMethodological papers Renold, E., Holland, S., Ross, N.J., and Hillman, A. (2008) Renold, E., Holland, S., Ross, N.J., and Hillman, A. (2008)

‘Becoming participant’: problematising ‘informed consent’ in ‘Becoming participant’: problematising ‘informed consent’ in participatory research with children and young people in care, participatory research with children and young people in care, Qualitative Social WorkQualitative Social Work, 7, 4, 431-451, 7, 4, 431-451

Wiles, R, Prosser, J., Bagnoli, A., Clark, A., Davies, K., Holland, Wiles, R, Prosser, J., Bagnoli, A., Clark, A., Davies, K., Holland, S. and Renold, E. (2008) Visual Ethics: Ethical Issues in Visual S. and Renold, E. (2008) Visual Ethics: Ethical Issues in Visual Research, ESRC NCRM Research Methods Review Paper 011, Research, ESRC NCRM Research Methods Review Paper 011, http://eprints.ncrm.ac.uk/421/1/MethodsReviewPaperNCRM-01http://eprints.ncrm.ac.uk/421/1/MethodsReviewPaperNCRM-011.pdf1.pdf

Holland, S., Renold, E., Ross, N.J. and Hillman, A. (2010Holland, S., Renold, E., Ross, N.J. and Hillman, A. (2010) ) Power, Power, agency and participatory agendas: A critical exploration of agency and participatory agendas: A critical exploration of young people's engagement in participative qualitative young people's engagement in participative qualitative research, research, Childhood, Childhood, 17:317:3

Ross, N.J., Renold, E., Holland, S. and Hillman, A. (2009) Ross, N.J., Renold, E., Holland, S. and Hillman, A. (2009) ‘Moving stories: using mobile methods to explore the everyday ‘Moving stories: using mobile methods to explore the everyday lives of young people in public care’, lives of young people in public care’, Qualitative Research, Qualitative Research, 9(5) 9(5) 605–623605–623

Substantive papers from project see: Substantive papers from project see: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/socsi/qualiti/dp4.htmlhttp://www.cardiff.ac.uk/socsi/qualiti/dp4.html