Starting from approaches that Young Lives has adopted, this chapter identifies fundamental ethics questions and contributes to current debates about research practices, the ethics of longitudinal research with children, and research with communities in developing countries, in a spirit of shared enquiry and learning. It discusses some of the difficulties encountered in fieldwork and strategies for attempting to resolve them. The chapter concludes that an understanding of local context is central to explanations of how research participants respond to being involved in a longitudinal data-gathering exercise like Young Lives, and that some adaptation and fluidity is necessary at the local level.

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Morrow, Virginia (2012) ' The Ethics of Social Research with Children and Families in Young Lives: Practical Experiences', in Jo Boyden and Michael Bourdillon (eds) Childhood Poverty. Multidisciplinary Approaches (pp.24-42). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmilllan.