Ethical guardrails when children participate in research: Risk and practice in Sweden and Australia

SAGE Open

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Harcourt, Deborah ^a   Quennerstedt, Ann ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Research ethics; Research with children

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907291766     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21582440     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2158244014543782     Document Type: Article

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