Skip to content
CO:RE

Compass for Research Ethics

The CO:RE Compass for Research Ethics is designed for early career and experienced researchers as well as research users. It is a continuously growing resource base that provides helpful materials about ethical considerations and issues that arise when engaging in research with children and young people. The resources and material gathered here help you to understand how research ethical issues should be considered and reviewed throughout the entire research process, and not just at the planning stage.

The compass builds on nine key areas, addressing ethical issues that arise when engaging children in online research, as well as data protection and research integrity. For each of the nine key areas, the compass answers RFAQs, researchers' frequently asked questions related to research ethics, and provides and points to additional resources such as the animated movie on kids' participation in research, blog posts, webinars, guidelines and reading lists.

Last but certainly not least, the compass also includes an interactive element - the CO:RE Conversation on Research Ethics - allowing you to provide feedback (via the button in the bottom right corner) and pose your own questions which will be reviewed and addressed. We also encourage you to recommend additional resources for our database. The CO:RE Conversation on Research Ethics also builds on interactions and conversations in social media and webinars. Please use the hashtag #COREthics to join the conversation.

Please allow external media cookies to access this content.
Please allow external media cookies to access this content.
Please allow external media cookies to access this content.
Please allow external media cookies to access this content.
Please allow external media cookies to access this content.
Please allow external media cookies to access this content.
Please allow external media cookies to access this content.
Please allow external media cookies to access this content.
Please allow external media cookies to access this content.
Please allow external media cookies to access this content.
Please allow external media cookies to access this content.
Please allow external media cookies to access this content.
Please allow external media cookies to access this content.
Please allow external media cookies to access this content.
Please allow external media cookies to access this content.

Video: "Have you been invited to participate in research? Then you should watch this film."; a resource for researchers working with children and young people. | License: CC-By-NC-SA | If you should have trouble loading this video, you can watch it here on our YouTube channel. | Please cite as: Staksrud, E., Ní Bhroin, N., Torp, I.S., & Johannessen, L.O. (2022). Have you been invited to participate in research? Then you should watch this film. Retrieved DD Month YYYY, from core-evidence.eu/posts/open-source-movie-childrens-rights-as-research-participants.

Please allow external media cookies to access this content.
Please allow external media cookies to access this content.
Please allow external media cookies to access this content.
Please allow external media cookies to access this content.
Please allow external media cookies to access this content.
Please allow external media cookies to access this content.
Please allow external media cookies to access this content.
Please allow external media cookies to access this content.
Please allow external media cookies to access this content.
Please allow external media cookies to access this content.
Please allow external media cookies to access this content.
Please allow external media cookies to access this content.
Please allow external media cookies to access this content.
Please allow external media cookies to access this content.
Please allow external media cookies to access this content.

Video: "Have you been invited to participate in research? Then you should watch this film."; a resource for researchers working with children and young people. | License: CC-By-NC-SA | If you should have trouble loading this video, you can watch it here on our YouTube channel. | Please cite as: Staksrud, E., Ní Bhroin, N., Torp, I.S., & Johannessen, L.O. (2022). Have you been invited to participate in research? Then you should watch this film. Retrieved DD Month YYYY, from core-evidence.eu/posts/open-source-movie-childrens-rights-as-research-participants.

Key areas of research ethics

The nine key areas related to research ethics with a particular focus on engaging children and young people in research, provide concise overviews of researchers' most frequently asked questions, provide valuable starting points, raise and discuss critical considerations and point to selected literature for early career and experienced researchers.

The focus of the CO:RE Compass for Research Ethics is on ethical considerations that arise when engaging in research with children and young people. This kind of research tends to highlight and intensify ethical dilemmas, for example when considering how to secure informed consent from research participants. At the same time, research ethics apply to everyone involved in research. We, therefore, wish to emphasise that all of the principles, rules and tools cited here also apply to research with adults and will therefore be relevant for all kinds of researchers.

Listen to Prof Elisabeth Staksrud in the theories vlog series interview, also available as a podcast episode for on the-go.

Please allow external media cookies to access this content.

Video: CO:RE theories vlog series - an interview with Elisabeth Staksrud. | If you are experiencing issues with the video player, please watch the video here on our YouTube channel.

Please allow external media cookies to access this content.

Podcast: series "theory calling" with Elisabeth Staksrud.

Explore further CO:RE resources on research ethics

More CO:RE toolkits & resources

Created by

University of Oslo (UiO)
University of Oslo (UiO)
CO:RE at UiO
Ethical Issues

The team at UiO works on research ethical considerations and develops the CO:RE compass for research ethics. This tool collates a broad digital portfolio of resources on research ethics towards researchers, informants, and others, enhancing the understanding of how to conduct research with and in collaboration with children and young people. It also cross-references to all other CO:RE tools and complements them with and ethical lense.

UiO_Elisabeth-Staksrud_2020-03-12.jpg

Elisabeth Staksrud

Elisabeth Staksrud is a full professor at the Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo (NO). She is principal investigator in EU Kids Online Norway and part of the EU Kids Online management team, and in 2018 she lead and coordinated the European survey and data collection in the project (9-17-year-olds in 10+ countries). She is leader of the CO:RE work package 7 on research ethics.

UiO_Niamh-Ni-Bhroin_2020-03-12.jpg

Niamh Ní Bhroin

Niamh Ní Bhroin is a Researcher at the Department of Media and Communication at the University of Oslo (NO) and a member of the CO:RE work package 7 on research ethics. Her research focuses on children’s and young people’s use of new media and on related research ethical issues.

Cookie preferences

We use cookies on our website. Some of them are essential, while others help us to improve this website and your experience.