Tema Barn is an interdisciplinary research centre focused on children and childhoods that focuses on children鈥檚 perspectives and on child-orientated research methods.
As part of the birthday celebration, and her team convened a multidisciplinary workshop to bring together an group of international academics to explore the multiplicities of children鈥檚 childhoods.
Professor Katherine Runswick-Cole (The School of Education and iHuman at 葫芦影业) was invited to talk about 鈥淓thic as Method鈥. Drawing on her work with colleagues Dr Kirsty Liddiard and Professor Dan Goodley and the , Katherine spoke about participatory research with children and young people as a form of relational ethics. She described the ways in which disabled children and young people have been excluded from research in the past. She talked about how the research team were learning together to understand the lives of children and young people with life limiting and life threatening impairments as part of an ongoing research project 鈥 (funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.
Katherine said: 鈥淚 feel very privileged to have spent time with a committed group of academics to think about how we can better understand children鈥檚 participation in their social worlds.鈥
