Qualitative Fieldwork with Children: Context and Participation in Child Well-Being Research Across Nations

Drawing on the multinational qualitative study ’Children’s Understandings of Well-being’ (CUWB), this unique edited collection offers practical insights into conducting fieldwork across diverse geographical, social and cultural contexts, using the same basic protocol.

The book explores the practical, ethical and philosophical challenges the researchers faced, and the ways in which these issues were dealt with by the different research teams. Contributors provide rare insights into the diverse institutional requirements and professional practices highlighting the way research methods are embedded in contexts that are at one and the same time both local and global.

With contributions from experts in child well-being research from Argentina, Australia, Canada, Chile, Germany, Romania, South Africa, Switzerland, Turkey, the UK and the US, the book provides valuable perspectives for researchers across a wide range of settings.

Lise Mogensen is Senior Lecturer in Medical Education at Western Sydney University and a researcher on the Australian Children’s Understandings of Well-being (CUWB) team. Susann Fegter is head of the department of General and Historical Educational Science at Technische Universität Berlin and project leader of the CUWB research project. Lisa Fischer is a research assistant at Technische Universität Berlin. Jan Mason is Emeritus Professor in the School of Social Sciences at Western Sydney University and was a project leader of the CUWB research project. Tobia Fattore is Senior Lecturer at Macquarie University and was a coordinating lead researcher on the CUWB research project.