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.

PART ONE: CONCEPTUAL, METHODOLOGICAL AND ETHICAL ISSUES IN RESEARCHING CHILDREN'S EXPERIENCE Researching Children's Experience - Sheila Greene and Malcolm Hill Methods and Methodological Issues Researching `The Child' in Developmental Psychology - Diane Hogan Researching Children and Childhood - Pia Christensen and Alan Prout Sociological and Anthropological Perspectives Ethical Considerations in Researching Children's Experiences - Malcolm Hill PART TWO: METHODS FOR CONDUCTING RESEARCH WITH CHILDREN Naturalistic Observations of Children in Their Families - Judy Dunn An Ecological Approach to Naturalistic Observations of Children's Everyday Lives - Jonathan Tudge and Diane Hogan Ethnographic Methods with Children and Young People - Ruth Emond PART THREE: THE GENERATION AND ANALYSIS OF TEXT Exploring Meaning through Interviews with Children - Helen Westcott and Karen Littleton Interviewing Children Using an Interpretive Poetics - Annie Rogers Analysing Children's Accounts using Discourse-Analysis - Pam Alldred and Erica Burman Narrative Analysis of Children's Experience - Susan Engel Phenomenological Approaches to Research with Children - Tom Danaher and Marc Briod Exploring Children's Views through Focus Groups - Eilis Hennessy and Caroline Heary Creative Methodologies in Participatory Research with Children - Angela Veale