Presentation. Methodological challenges in participation research

Methodological Challenges for Collaborative Learning Research

Research participation effects: a skeleton in the methodological cupboard☆

OBJECTIVE There have been concerns about impacts of various aspects of taking part in research studies for a century. The concerns have not, however, been sufficiently well conceptualized to form traditions of study capable of defining and elaborating the nature of these problems. In this article we present a new way of thinking about a set of issues attracting long-standing attention. STUDY ...

Children’s participation – challenges for research and practice

I’m very grateful to Sheila Greene for inviting me here, and for those generous words of welcome. I was last in Dublin in 1978, so it’s certainly high time I returned. When I was last here, Jim Callaghan was the British Prime Minister, Jack Lynch was the Taoiseach, and personal computers were the next big thing. The following year was the International Year of the Child, in which Poland propose...

Measuring sexual behaviour: methodological challenges in survey research.

Introduction The study of sexual behaviour lies at the heart of understanding the transmission dynamics of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Academic investigation into sexual behaviour dates back to the 18th century and, over time, has employed a variety of approaches including the medical and psychiatric investigation of sexual disorders, anthropological investigations, and survey resea...

Vulnerable participants in health research: methodological and ethical challenges

ethical reasoning in bioethics attempts to justify normative claims by referring to moral theory and arguments in an effort to defend conclusions with which all reasonable people must agree. (Burgess, 2007, p. 2285) However, as we have illustrated, ethical guidelines and notions of informed consent are normative claims that may be challenged in social and health research. The guidelines from me...