'The author gives an excellent overview and explores how children have been seen as objects and subjects in research as well as increasingly as participants and more recently still as researchers.'

- International Journal of Research and Method in Education

'This book is especially beneficial in terms of its breadth of discussion on the legal, ethical and moral issues of conducting research with children and young people alongside the key methodological challenges that students and practitioners are faced when conducting this type of research' - Research Policy and Planning

Doing Research with Children and Young People introduces researchers to the key considerations involved in working with children and young people.

The book highlights issues which arise at different stages in the process and which all researchers need to take account of as they plan and carry out a study. These include:

· ethical and legal issues

· philosophical underpinnings of research

· age and diversity of the children involved

· evaluation and dissemination of findings.

Doing Research with Children and Young People has been developed to accompany The Open University course Research with Children and Young People (EK310). It is an ideal introduction for all students and practitioners preparing to research in fields such as education, health, welfare, childhood and youth studies, psychology and sociology.

Doing Research with Children and Young People - Vicky Lewis
An Introduction
PART ONE: SETTING THE CONTEXT
Situating Empirical Research - Sandy Fraser
Images of Childhood - Mary Kellett, Chris Robinson and Rachel Burr
The Legal Context - Judith Masson
Paradigms and Philosophy - Sandy Fraser and Chris Robinson
PART TWO: RESEARCH RELATIONS
Power - Chris Robinson and Mary Kellett
Ethics - Priscilla Alderson
Involving Children and Young People as Researchers - Adele Jones
Gender - Rob Pattman and Mary Jane Kehily
PART THREE: DIVERSITY
Early Childhood - Ann Langston et al
Middle Childhood - Mary Kellett and Sharon Ding
Young People - Alan France
Disability - Vicky Lewis and Mary Kellett
Participatory Action Research in the Majority World - Olga Nieuwenhuys
Race and Ethnicity - Mani Maniam et al
PART FOUR: RELEVANCE, EVALUATION AND DISSEMINATION
Health and Social Care - Helen Roberts
Education - Ann Edwards
Childhood Studies - Jim McKechnie and Sandy Hobbs