Being Participatory: Researching with Children and Young People (eBook)

The second edition of this book provides a clear framework for conducting participatory research with children and young people supported by practical examples from international research studies. Our aim is to encourage more participatory research with children and young people on all matters that affect their lives. This book illustrates innovative ways of being participatory and how such methods can promote the inclusion of children and young people with diverse experiences and backgrounds. It sheds new light on involvement strategies that recognise agency and that play to children and young people's strengths.

The international experts in this book share knowledge built from their wealth of experience in undertaking participatory research with children and young people using creative techniques that can enable and promote ways of expressing their views and experiences. The book provides guidance on appropriate techniques that can reduce the power differential between adultresearchers and children and young people as participants. These techniques help to optimise their abilities to participate in research. 

There is increasing interest in involving children and young people as co-researchers but little guidance on how this can be done. This book fills a gap in the current literature by addressing all these issues outlined above and by providing worked examples from leading researchers and academics.

Building on the success of the first edition and, with an additional three chapters, this second edition is sure to have wide appeal to researchers across a range of different disciplines. 

This book is targeted at researchers, academics, and practitioners who need guidance on what tools are available, how the tools can be used, advantages and challenges, and how best to involve children and young people in all stages of a research project.

Professor Imelda Coyne is a children's nurse who cares passionately about children's rights and welfare. In her current position as Professor of Children's Nursing and Director of Trinity Research in Childhood Centre (Trinity College Dublin Ireland) she leads a team of lecturers and researchers in the delivery of high-quality teaching, clinical practice, and research. The central theme underpinning her program of research is valuing children's and young people's voices and promoting their participation in matters that affect their lives. Her program of research includes: shared decision-making; family-centred care; chronic illness management and transition from child to adult services.
She has over 200 publications in peer-reviewed journals and has written/co-authored fifteen chapters and five books. She presented widely (more than 150 papers) including many invited keynote presentations and delivered workshops internationally. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the InternationalJournal of Adolescent Medicine and Health (IJAHM) and a member of two editorial boards: Nursing Children and Young People; and Nursing & Health Sciences. She is a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin, Fellow of the European Academy of Nursing Science and a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing.

Professor Bernie Carter is a children's nurse who has a long-term commitment to participation and the importance of participation to the ways in which practitioners and researchers work with children, young people, and their families. She works at Edge Hill University where she contributes to and co-leads the Children, Young People and Families Research Group. She was the Director of the Children's Nursing Research Unit (CNRU) at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust. Her research uses innovative, arts-based, creative methods to engage with children and young people in ways that resonate with their skills, capacities and interests. She has published over 200 peer-reviewed articlesand more than 60 editorials. She has written and edited books on pain, researching with children, and children's nursing and contributed chapters to books. Much of this work is highly relevant to the areas covered by this book.
She is Associate Editor for Frontiers in Pediatric Pain. She was Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Child Health Care (Sage Publications) for 23 years. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.