Research for Development: a practical guide, (with Caroline Harper and Rachel Marcus), Sage / Save the Children, 2003.
Written as a manual for development workers to help them to use research in their work, this book provides a quick reference guide, and a comprehensive introduction to research in development. Its two sections, Managing Research for Development, and Doing Research for Development, review the complete research process - outlining the essential role and purpose of research, highlighting issues specific to development research and demonstrating how to evaluate and secure the best results from research.
See reviews and details on the Sage website
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Involving young people in doing evaluation: a training resource for practitioners and researchers (with Christopher Creegan / Save the Children / Mr Knox), Video, 2005.
Available free from Save The Children London.
Please email s.emerson@savethechildren.org.uk

So you want to involve children in research? (with Gillian Mann), part of Supporting children's meaningful and ethical participation in work around violence against children, a series of toolkits produced by Save the Children for the UN Study, Save the Children Sweden, 2004.
Click here to download the report from Save the Children Sweden's website
Also available in French and Spanish.

Hear me! Consulting young people on mental health services, Mental Health Foundation, 1998.
The full report is available in PDF format from the Mental Health Foundation website

Consulting children and young people on what they want from mental health services, Mental Health Care (now Mental Health Today), Vol 2 No 2, October 1998, pp63-66.

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'Advocacy for children in Family Group Conferences: reflections on personal and public decision-making', in A Handbook of Children's Participation: perspectives from theory and practice, edited by Barry Percy-Smith and Nigel Thomas, Routledge, forthcoming (with Perpetua Kirby).
See the book at the Routledge website

'At the Table or Under the Table? Children's Participation in Family Group Conferences - A Comparative Study of the Use of Professional Advocates and Family Supporters', pp81-98 in Developing Advocacy for Children and Young People: current issues in research, policy and practice, (eds Christine M. Oliver and Jane Dalrymple), 2008, Jessica Kingsley Publishers. (With Perpetua Kirby.)
Available from Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Under the table or at the table? Advocacy for children in Family Group Conferences, Brighton and Hove Children's Fund Partnership and the Brighton and Hove Daybreak FGC Project, 2007. (With Perpetua Kirby.)
A summary is online at the project website under 'Recent events'
To get the full report, email: admin@daybreakb-hove.fsworld.co.uk

'The patient's experience of being a human research subject', The Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 2008 101 416-422, (with Susan Kerrison, Assistant Director of Research and Development, Joint UCL/UCLH Biomedical Research Unit and Mary Cane). Available from the JSRM website

"It's only a blood test": what people know and think about venepuncture and blood (with Naomi Pfeffer), Social Science and Medicine, No 62, 2006, pp3011-3023.
Click here for an abstract

Children and young people's views on health and health services: a review of the evidence (with Nicola Madge, Steve Flood and Deborah Loeb), National Children's Bureau for the Department of Health, 2005.
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When children affected by war go home: Lessons learned from Liberia (with Krijn Peters, principal author, and Edwin Dorbor), Save the Children UK, 2003.
Download the summary or the full report on Save the Children's website

Participatory evaluation with young community workers: learning from the activ8 experience (with Chris Creegan). Paper to ESRC seminar: Engaging critically with pupil voice: children and young people as partners in school and community change, University of Sussex, January 2004.
Click here to visit the Pupil Voice website

Pride and Prejudice: working with lesbian and gay young people, Save the Children, 1999.
See this report on the Save the Children website

Time to Listen: Young people's views of Bolton's mental health services: a peer research project, (with Dan Armitt, Wendy Metzendorf, Paula Percival and Jacquie Reisel), Save the Children, 1999.
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Parents' views of Sure Start Copenhagen: a qualitative evaluation, National Children's Bureau, 2003.

Looking after children within the extended family: carers' views, De Montfort University, 2000. (with Bob Broad)
See this report on the De Montfort University website
Read the executive summary on the De Montfort University Website

Looking after children within the extended family: carers' views, in (ed) Bob Broad, Kinship Care: the placement choice for children and young people, Russell House Publishing, 2001.
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Issues of Blood: the Politics of Menstruation, Macmillan, 1990.
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Seeing Red, article in Sue Scott and Stevi Jackson (eds), Gender: a sociological reader, Routledge, 2002.
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The Sexual Politics of Premenstrual Tension, Women's Studies International Forum, January, Vol 6, No 1, 1983. (Awarded a Distinguished Publication Award by the US Association for Women in Psychology, 1984).

The 'single mothers' debate: a children's rights perspective, in eds Janet Holland and Lisa Adkins, Sex, Sensibility and the Gendered Body, Explorations in Sociology 46, British Sociological Association / Macmillan, 1996.

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Publications for the United Nations Study on Violence against Children
Toolkit on involving children in research, workshop report and four child-friendly documents.
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Piecing it together: feminist perspectives after September 11
After September 11 2001 and the subsequent attack on Afghanistan, I edited with Helen Lowe a special issue of the feminist magazine Trouble and Strife reflecting on the issues raised.
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