1. Participatory digital research with children and young people Dr Liam Berriman, University of

2. Children’s participation Digitisation of research
Background:
Children’s participation
Digitisation of research
Democratisation of research?

3. Participatory digital methods with children
What does ‘participatory’ look like in digital research with children?
Capturing data using digital tools, e.g. cameras (Nolas & Varvantakis 2019), digital diaries (Volpe 2018), spatial mapping (Ergler et al. 2016).
Co-designing digital tools and apps for data collection and/or curation (Hadfield-Hill & Zara 2017)
Focus on what gets produced through digital methods – digital data

4. Focusing on children’s digital data
Participation in digital methods studies primarily framed in terms of collaborative data collection… … but what about collaborations around digital data after it has been collected? Research contributes to the ‘datafication of childhood’ – what is our contribution to these debates? How do our ideas of quality and participation shape good practice?
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5. The ‘Everyday Childhoods’ study
Qualitative longitudinal study (2013-5) funded by NCRM and AHRC grants.
Extensive sample – six 7 year olds (previously part of longitudinal study on motherhood).
Intensive sample – eight year olds (recruited newly to the study).
Sampling logic:
Capturing differences between childhood and teens, and transitions between the two.
Capturing in-depth and diverse accounts through emblematic cases.

6. Integrating children’s participation into the care of digital data in research
Possibility – Balancing protection and participation
Co-production – Collaborating with children and families.
Shareability – Developing a ‘careful ethics’ for dissemination.
Posterity – Engaging with the future life of data from beginning.

7. Possibility Overcoming protection vs. participation.
‘Careful ethics’ (Moore).
Starting with the archive.
Initiating dialogues with children and families.

8. 2. Co-Production
Inviting collaboration in the making of public representations of data.
Shaping and curating the archive together.
Balancing possibility and sensitivity.

9. 3. Shareability Imagining audiences for research – who might see it?
Looking forward in time – how might you feel in X or Y years?
Balancing possibility with sensitivity – what’s comfortable?

10. 4. Posterity Imagining future users of digital data and archives.
Dialogues around the care of data – what are children’s priorities?
Establishing responsibility – who will care for data?

12. Ethical values into collaborative practice
Participatory practice
1. Possibility
Planning and discussing the life of digital data from the beginning of research (‘starting with the archive’).
2. Co-production
Collaboration in the creation and negotiation of research data representations.
3. Shareability
Imagining audiences of data and exploring what can be ‘comfortably’ made public
4. Posterity
Imagining and writing to future users of data, and establishing practices of care.

13. Find out more about the ‘Everyday Childhoods’ Project….