The VIP-CLEAR (Voices in a Pandemic--Children's Lockdown Experience Applied to Recovery) project aims to explore younger children's experiences of lockdown in response to the COVID-19 pandemic to inform their recovery and resilience to future social shocks. Focused on designing research methods that magnified their un-brokered voices, we wanted to…

This case study explores the use of photo elicitation methodology and children's photography as a method of researching children's early mathematical experiences and understandings. In the years 2008-2010, I undertook a PhD study which explored the experiences children have with, and understandings of, mathematics (specifically, measurement) as…

This case study reflects on cross-disciplinary, health, and education PhD research that explored the educational experiences of children and young people with the medical condition cystic fibrosis. Children with medical conditions may experience particular difficulties in education, potentially making them vulnerable at school. During the case…

Open Air Laboratories is a citizen science project that provides environmental monitoring resources that can be used by schools for experiential learning to support the science curricula. This pilot research project aimed to use a self-completed online questionnaire to assess children's views of the value of Open Air Laboratories experiential…

This case study details a research project that explored meanings, perspectives, and understandings of inclusion, using a photo-elicitation methodology. Children and young people were provided with disposable cameras and were invited to take photographs in their school setting that they felt represented inclusion or exclusion. Some of the…

Digital stories are short, personal multimedia presentations created through the capture of image (still and/or video), which the creator then edits on a computer with video-editing software to include a spoken narrative. This case adds to the very new move to reconceptualise the digital story by positing it as a useful research method that…

Over the years, researchers from different disciplines have used a wide range of research methods to assess the views of children, especially qualitative methods such as focus groups and small group discussions. Large-scale quantitative surveys are much less common, even though they are a valuable way of comparing data from across different age…

This case discusses the use of ethnography in a study with young children. The study aimed to uncover how one multi-ethnic reception class in the North of England (4- to 5-year-olds) explored identity, diversity and (in)equality within their school peer interactions. The study argues that ethnography was the most appropriate methodology to use, as…