Doing Children’s Geographies

Lorraine van Blerk is Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Reading. Mike Kesby is Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of St Andrews.

1: Researching children’s geographies Lorraine van Blerk, John Barker, Nicola Ansell, Fiona Smith and Mike Kesby

Part 1: Methodological innovations

2: Interviewing with Children in their homes: developing flexible approaches and techniques Naomi Bushin

3: "I felt they were ganging up on me": Interviewing siblings at home Samantha Punch

4: Movements in time and space: using multiple methods in research with young people in Accra, Ghana Thilde Langevang

5: ‘Sandplay, clay and sticks’: Multi-sensory research methods to explore the long-term mental health effects of childhood play experience Amanda Bingley and Christine Milligan

6: ‘Tell me your story’: Applied ethics in narrative research with young fathers Jane Reeves

Part 2: Advancing participation

7: Rethinking participatory methods in children’s geographies Michael Gallagher

8: Doing research with young people: participatory research and the rituals of collective work Caitlin Cahill

9: Involving young people as researchers: a discussion on the participatory potential of the method and the multiple power-relations it uncovers Nadine Schaefer

10: Increasing children’s participation in transport planning: reflections on some methodological issues in a West African research context Gina Porter and Albert Abane

11: Participatory feedback and dissemination with and for children: reflections from research with young migrants in southern Africa Lorraine van Blerk and Nicola Ansell

Part 3: New directions

12: ‘Isolation and distress’? (Re)thinking the place of emotions in youth research Carolyn Gaskell

13: Methodologies for change? A critique of applied children’s geogrpahies John Barker

14: Are Methodologies for children keeping them in their place? Fionagh Thomson

15: Approaching the otherness of childhood: methodological considerations Owain Jones

16: Moving Forward: Contributions to methodological innovation Mike Kesby, Nicola Ansell, Lorraine van Blerk, John Barker and Fiona Smith