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Title: Children as research advisers: Contributions to a 'methodology of participation' in researching children in difficult circumstances.
Author: Dona, G.
Date Published: 2006
Reference: International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care, 2(2), 22-34.
Are service users or carers authors: No/Not Known

Abstract:

This article reviews the involvement of children as research advisors in two projects: a study of foster care for separated children in Rwanda and an analysis of the conditions of children outside parental care living in institutions and communities in Bangladesh.

Detailed discussions of both projects describe how the child advisory committees influenced the research topics, the selection of participants, recruitment of participants, the interpretation of findings and the recommendations proposed.

The author emphasises the importance of thinking through the method of participation, since how participation itself is conceived and carried out affects the quality of the process. If well-planned participation improves the quality of the overall research project and gives children tools to examine and discuss their lives.

Related entry: none currently available

Categories: social care
Identifying topics, prioritising and commissioning
Designing research
Analysing and interpreting
impact on research
impact of public involvement
journal article
Recruitment

Date Entered: 2009/01/27

Date Edited: 2012/11/20

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