Researching Children and Childhood

• Credit value: 30 credits at Level 7
• Convenor: Professor Karen Wells
• Assessment: an 8000-word annotated research journal, a dissertation research proposal, a 2000-word literature review and an ethics proposal if necessary

This module is for students who are doing their dissertation on a child- or youth-focused topic in development studies or geography. It allows you to develop a deep understanding of the theoretical and empirical academic research on the specific issues posed by doing research with children and young people. It is assessed by a research journal and is taught through six tutorial-style classes which are highly interactive and engage in depth with specific issues posed by research on and with children and young people: ethics, voice and participatory methods, visual methods, and autobiography. This is a compulsory module for students on the MSc Children Youth and International Development who take it alongside research methods for dissertation. If you are on another programme you must contact the module lecturer, Karen Wells, before choosing the module.