Effective informed consent and assent is at the heart of being an ethical researcher.
Being an ethical researcher is about doing ‘good’ research in the ‘right’ way. Researchers often think about what ‘good’ research is from their own researcher point of view. But they don't think about this from their participants’ points of view.
This is particularly true for research with children and young people. The natural imbalance of power between adult researchers and gatekeepers, and young people as participants can hide how young people feel about participating in research.
In this short video we present a reflexive researcher approach to achieving effective ongoing assent/consent working with children and young people. It identifies different reflexive considerations for adult researchers as a continuous journey of assent/consent from inception of research projects through to the dissemination of results.
The resource complements the Becoming an ethical researcher OpenLearn course and connects with The Open University website Our voices: research ‘about’, ‘with’ and ‘by’ children and young people.
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