Complexities of Researching with Young People

Description

Currently, most books on youth research available on the market focus on ‘how to’ conduct youth research or the research process itself. This edited collection proposes to take this process a step further and discuss the complexities of youth research from a practical and theoretical context. In total, five themes are examined – conceptualising young people, ethics and consent, the digital, voice, participation and unexpected tensions. In this book, authors from six countries explore the complexities of researching with young people across disciplines and national contexts. Offering a closeup examination of their own research experiences, the authors address the complexities of researching with young people beyond simple questions of protection from harm and coercion by problematising notions of ‘resilience’, ‘participation’, ‘risk’ and ‘voice’. This edited collection takes the reader through an exploration of its key themes and, in doing so, presents a cast of candid and insightful accounts from youth researchers situated within the humanities and social sciences. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Copyright Dedication Contents List of tables List of contributors Acknowledgement List of abbreviations 1 Complexities of researching with young people: conceptualising key issues THEME I Conceptualising young people 2 Researching the lives of young Māori in Aotearoa, New Zealand: creating culturally sensitive methods and theory 3 Doing research in organisations: implications of the different definitions of youth 4 They look before they leap: conceptualising young people as digitally competent risk takers and its implications for ethical internet research THEME II Digital research 5 Critical reflections: merits of using youth-centric technology in keeping young people safe across Europe 6 Digital modes of data collection in mixed-methods longitudinal youth research 7 Revealing intimacy through digital media: young people, digital culture and new research perspectives THEME III Ethical dilemmas 8 Researching young people’s experiences: an African-centred perspective of consent and ethics 9 Working with complexity: between control and care in digital research ethics 10 Informed consent as a situated research process in an ethnography of incarcerated youth in Denmark THEME IV Voice and participation 11 The undue burden of methodological warrant on the voice of disengaged young people 12 Critically examining participation, power, ethics and the co-construction of knowledge in a community-based photovoice research project with LGBTQ former foster youth 13 Participation, positionality and power: critical moments in research with service-engaged youth 14 Participatory research and political ecology: an evaluation of research with young Syrian refugees in Turkey 15 Youth in voice: the concept of voice THEME V Unexpected tensions 16 How contradictory friendships disrupted my study of working-class girls’ residential instability 17 The Multicultural Youth Australia Census: reading complexity and migrant youth citizenship into survey methods 18 The pressures of building reciprocal relationships in an intergenerational research team Index