Researching Children's Experience

Sheila Greene is co-founder of the Children′s Research Centre (with Professor Robbie Gilligan). She has been actively involved in the Centre in various capacities since 1991 and became the Centre′s Director on 1st October 2004. Sheila graduated from Trinity in Psychology and Philosophy and trained as a clinical psychologist at the Institute of Psychiatry in London. She was the Head Psychologist on the Maternal and Infant Health Study at the Children′s Hospital in Boston and a staff member of Harvard Medical School before returning to the Psychology Department in Trinity as a lecturer. She has been involved in the establishment and direction of postgraduate courses in clinical and counselling psychology and women′s studies. She was elected to serve as Dean of Arts (Humanities) on two occasions and from August 2001 to July 2004 held the office of Senior Lecturer (chief academic officer) of the College. In March 2005 she was appointed to the AIB Chair in Childhood Research. Research Interests:Developmental psychology, parenting and parent-child relationships, research methods with children, developmental psychopathology.

A very good and useful book on qualitative research with children. It is located within the field of childhood studies but offers fruitful perspectives on how qualitative research can also be applied to developmental psychology projects.

• PART ONE: CONCEPTUAL, METHODOLOGICAL AND ETHICAL ISSUES IN RESEARCHING CHILDREN′S EXPERIENCEResearching Children′s Experience - Sheila Greene and Malcolm HillMethods and Methodological IssuesResearching `The Child′ in Developmental Psychology - Diane HoganResearching Children and Childhood - Pia Christensen and Alan ProutSociological and Anthropological PerspectivesEthical Considerations in Researching Children′s Experiences - Malcolm HillPART TWO: METHODS FOR CONDUCTING RESEARCH WITH CHILDRENNaturalistic Observations of Children in Their Families - Judy DunnAn Ecological Approach to Naturalistic Observations of Children′s Everyday Lives - Jonathan Tudge and Diane HoganEthnographic Methods with Children and Young People - Ruth EmondPART THREE: THE GENERATION AND ANALYSIS OF TEXTExploring Meaning through Interviews with Children - Helen Westcott and Karen LittletonInterviewing Children Using an Interpretive Poetics - Annie RogersAnalysing Children′s Accounts using Discourse-Analysis - Pam Alldred and Erica BurmanNarrative Analysis of Children′s Experience - Susan EngelPhenomenological Approaches to Research with Children - Tom Danaher and Marc BriodExploring Children′s Views through Focus Groups - Eilis Hennessy and Caroline HearyCreative Methodologies in Participatory Research with Children - Angela Veale