Being Participatory Through the Use of App-Based Research Tools

Children and young people as geological agents? Time, scale and multispecies vulnerabilities in the new epoch

“…In the analysis we focus on data from the interviews. Other project methodologies included guided walks, the use of a mobile application, 'Map My Community', drawings and communitybased workshops (for further detail see Hadfield-Hill & Zara, 2017, 2018a).…”

“…At the time of fieldwork (in 2015) this was a new urban development under construction. Dasve, the first town, was near completion (with housing, public spaces, shops, schools, higher education, hotels and tourist attractions) and the second town, Mugaon, was in the early planning and construction phase (for further insight into the case study development, see Hadfield-Hill & Zara, 2017, 2018a. This space exemplifies anthropogenic urbanism with blasting of mountains, clearance of trees and vegetation and the construction of large-scale transport and built environment infrastructures.…”

Children and young people living through the monsoon: watery entanglements and fluid inequalities

“…It was in the context of young people talking about everyday routines that they spoke openly about their relationships, struggles and negotiations with the monsoon. Forty families (over an 11-month period in 2015) engaged with multiple methodologies, including: individual in-depth interviews, guided walks (both physical and using Google Earth), drawings, focus groups, community based workshops and the use of a mobile app 'Map my Community' (see Hadfield-Hill and Zara 2018). A key aim of the project was to understand how urban transformation impacts young lives across the social spectrum.…”

Making sense of ‘slippages’: re-evaluating ethics for digital research with children and young people

“…Many CYP, for example, openly share personal data on social mediaa practice that invites many ethical questions. Conducting research with and through technology also invites us to reconsider the tools that we use (Hadfield-Hill and Zara 2018). For example, Volpe (2019) has described the myriad of privacy issues inherent in using PhotoVoice methods in a digital context, which can include the unintentional inclusion of individuals who have not consented to participate in the research project.…”

“…We research the role these technologies might play in supporting young people's participation in society. Whilst we are acutely aware of the fresh ethical challenges that digital technologies present for children's geographies (Hadfield-Hill and Zara 2018), we contend that the tendency of procedural ethics to centre harms and risks fails to consider the myriad of benefits that these technologies can offer CYP (Ergler et al 2016). We contend that procedural ethics systems have not kept pace with the complexities of digital research with CYP.…”