Undertaking Research with Children and Young People

Dates: Thursday 8th and Friday 9th March 2012

Times: 9.00am to 4.30pm

Course Leaders: Dr Sally Holland, WISERD Cardiff and Dr Emma Renold Cardiff University

Location: Glamorgan Building, Cardiff University

Overview

This two day event for researchers will focus on the developing the capacity of staff to undertake effective research with children and young people. Participants may opt to attend both days, or either Day 1 OR Day 2.

The aim of the course is to introduce research students and early career researchers to key issues involving research with children.

Day 1 will be introductory and will cover: approaches to research with children and young people, research ethics with children and young people and child protection in research environments.

Day 2 will introduce a range of research methods commonly used for research with children. These are likely to include up to 4 of the following: participatory approaches, creative methods for interviews, secondary data analysis of large datasets, surveys and observation.  Each session on day 2 will focus on issues in using these methods in research with children.

Each day will include the opportunity for questions and discussion and for participants to relate the materials to their own research plans.

Maximum number: 12

Fee Information

Workshop fee per day:

UK Registered Postgraduate Student - £30
Staff at Any UK Higher Education Institution - £60
ESRC Funded Researcher - £60
Registered Charity or Public Sector Worker - £60
Other - £220

All fees include event materials, lunch, morning and afternoon tea. They do not include travel and accommodation costs.

A booking form for this event can be found by clicking here.

For further information please contact WISERD.events@cardiff.ac.uk

Programme

Day1 – Thursday March 8th	Preparing to research with children
10.00am	Registration and refreshments
10.30	Introductions and warm up
10.45	Researching children: positionality and place
11.30	Participatory approaches
12.15pm	Lunch
1.00pm	Research ethics with children and young people
2.30pm	Refreshment break
2.50 – 4.00pm	Child protection in research contexts
4.00pm – 4.30pm	Question and answers – sharing research ideas
Day 2 – Friday March 9th	Doing research with children
9.30am	Registration and refreshments
10.00am	Mapping childhood through secondary data sets
11.30am	Refreshment break
12.00pm	Multi-sensory ethnography: objects, sounds and movement
1.00pm	Lunch
1.45pm	Using creative methods with children and young people   Mobile methods Visual methods Material methods
3.15pm	Refreshments with discussion and evaluation