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.
1. Complexities of Researching with Young People: Conceptualising Key
Issues;
2. Researching the Lives of Young Mori 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;
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;
8. Researching
Young Peoples 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;
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;
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.
Paulina Billett is a lecturer in sociology at La Trobe University, Victoria. Her research explores questions of wellbeing, identity formation and lived experience with a focus on women and young people.
Matt Hart is a lecturer in digital society at the University of Leicester. His research interest is the sociology of youth and digital culture.
Dona Martin is an adjunct researcher at La Trobe University, Bendigo, Victoria. Donas portfolio includes a broad area of research in education.
