Practical Research with Children

<p><em>Practical Research with Children</em> is designed to help the reader understand techniques for research with children, based on real world experience. The book describes a wide range of research methods, focusing equally on quantitative and qualitative approaches, and considers how different methods can be integrated. It highlights the benefits and challenges of each method and gives emphasis to best practice, with expert guidance on how to avoid potential pitfalls in order to obtain valuable insights into how children develop.</p><p>The volume includes fifteen chapters arranged over three sections. Each chapter explores a particular method, or combination of methods, and discusses both theoretical and practical issues, using a diversity of domains, including different ages, cultures, populations and settings. Uniquely, the book includes newer methods (such as eye tracking and digital technologies) alongside well-established behavioural methods which are used for research with children. </p><p>With contributions from internationally renowned researchers and practitioners from a range of disciplines, the book will be indispensable reading for a wide audience, including for students in psychology, education and nursing undertaking research projects with children, and also for anyone looking to understand the research behind current theories in child development.</p> <p><strong>Part 1 Quantitative methods in research with children</strong> 1. Researching cognitive development in infancy, <em>Caspar Addyman & Luke Mason </em>2. The use of eye tracking with infants and children, <em>Sam V. Wass</em> 3. Imaging the developing human brain using functional and structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Methodological and practical guidelines, <em>Stephan E. Vogel, Anna A. Matejko, & Daniel Ansari</em> 4. Standardised and experimental psychological tasks: issues and solutions for research with children, <em>Harry Purser & Jo Van Herwegen</em> 5. Researching children’s conversations, <em>Harriet Tenenbaum, Patrick Leman, Ana Aznar, & Cheryl To</em> <b>Part 2 Qualitative methods in research with children </b>6. The use of semi-structured interviews with young children, <em>Jess Prior </em> 7. Ethnographic studies of young children, <em>Eva Gulløv & Libeth Ljosdal Skreland</em> 8. Qualitative research with a ‘Double Life’: A mixed methods approach to research and advocacy with adolescents, <em>Jayme Hannay, Robert Dudley, Stephanie Milan, Paula Kellogg Leibovitz, & Valerie L. Rodino</em> 9. Novel and creative qualitative methodologies with children, <em>Karen Winter</em> <b>Part 3 Mixed methods designs in research with children</b> 10. Counting in context: Studying children's everyday talk by combining numbers and words, <em>Douglas E. Sperry & Linda L. Sperry </em> 11. Using mixed methods in developmental psychology: From scale errors to death, <em>Karl Rosengren, Isabel T. Gutiérrez, & Matthew J Jiang</em> 12. The use of Q sort methodology in research with teenagers, <em>Larry Owens</em> 13. Methodologies for paediatric sleep research in typical and atypical populations, <em>Frances Le Cornu Knight & Dagmara Dimitriou</em> 14. Digital and new technologies: Research tools and questions, <em>David Messer & Natalia Kucirkova</em> 15. Ethical issues and further thoughts, <em>Lindsay O’Dell & Charlotte Brownlow</em></p>