Deepening Collaborative Research
We are a collective of people who are passionate about deepening collaborative research. We work together and see what opportunities come our way and we try to show a form of authentic collaboration. That means, where young people and adults learn from each other, make important decisions together, and work in ways that respect each person’s strengths and experiences.
We have coedited a special issue of the journal Childhood.
This is a bit like a book. Adults and children or young people have written advice on doing research together. The video describes what we did and what we found out. You can read all about it in here Deepening collaborative research with children and young people: A co-edited and co-written special issue – Victor Agbontean, Thomas Greeney, Cath Larkins, Beate Lezdkalne, Ali Roy, Daniel Sheehan, Evie Smith, 2024
Click on the images below to see summaries of what the teams of young researchers and academics wrote.
Click on the words to go to their articles in the journal.
Team A – Reflecting on participation’s promises: Insights from collaborative research about unaccompanied child migrants, care, and the UK’s hostile immigration regime.
Team B – Youth-led social action at school: ‘It made me think that there could be a way to make things better in the future’.
Team C – Applying co-production principles in research: Reflections from young people and academics.
Team D – Creating ownership: Strengths and tensions in co-production with children, young people, and adults across contexts.
Team E – Participation for protection: New perspectives on the value of young people’s involvement in research addressing sexual violence.
Team F – Children’s voices for change: Co-researching with children and young people as family violence experts by experience.
Team G – Deepening our understanding: Collaboration through online peer-to-peer participatory action research with children.
Team I – Play tales: Co-creating stories of childhood nature play in an urban forest school.
Team K – The power should be balanced: Central dimensions of healthy intergenerational partnerships.
