Virginia Morrow & Priscilla Alderson 
The Ethics of Research with Children and Young People [PDF ebook] 
A Practical Handbook

Introduction: Why ethics matters
Part I: The planning stages
Chapter 1: Planning the research: Purpose and methods
Chapter 2: Assessing harms and benefits
Chapter 3: Respect for rights: Privacy and confidentiality
Chapter 4: Designing research: Selection and participation
Chapter 5: Money matters: Contracts, funding research, and paying participants
Chapter 6: Reviewing aims and methods: Ethics guidance and committees
Part II: The data collecting stage
Chapter 7: Information
Chapter 8: Consent
Part III: The writing, reporting and follow up stages
Chapter 9: Disseminating and implementing the findings
Chapter 10: The impact on children and young people

Priscilla Alderson is Emerita Professor of Childhood Studies at University College London Social Research Institute. She has been involved with medical research ethics committees for nearly 40 years, and more recently with committees that review social research. She has advised on the writing of research ethics guidelines for a range of medical, nursing, social and psychological authorities. She has researched many aspects of children’s lives and rights, from premature babies to young people aged up to 18 (see Research Gate). Recent books include Childhoods, Real or Imagined: An Introduction to Critical Realism and Childhood Studies (Routledge 2013) and The Politics of Childhoods, Real or Imagined (Routledge 2016).