Child Protection and Disability : Ethical, Methodological and Practical Challenges for Research

The contributors to this edited volume explore the ethical, methodological, and practical challenges in conducting child protection research with deaf and disabled children and young people. What are the child protection concerns for deaf and disabled children and young people? What are their views about the child protection system? How can we measure if we have made a difference in ending child abuse and neglect? These questions and others are at the forefront of policy, practice and research debates internationally. Contributions draw on examples of child protection and disability research from an international spectrum of leading research in both the child protection and the disability fields.As with other titles in this series the book is written for postgraduate students and academics from a range of disciplines, particularly in health, social care and education.

Deborah Fry is a Lecturer in Child Protection at the University of Edinburgh and the Programme Director for the MSc in International Child Protection Research. Julie Taylor Professor of Child Protection and Director, Child Protection Research Centre, University of Edinburgh.

Dr Deborah Fry is a Lecturer in Child Protection and co-leads the Safe Inclusive Schools Network at the University of Edinburgh, Moray HouseSchool of Education. Dr Patricia Lannen is the UBS Optimus Foundation’s program director for child protection and has been involved in research on vulnerablechildren for fifteen years. Dr Jennifer Vanderminden is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. Dr Audrey Cameron worked as a Research Fellow in Child Protection(Disabilities) at the University of Edinburgh (2013–15) and is a very active member of the Deaf community. Tabitha Casey is Project Manager for the Safe Inclusive Schools Networkat the University of Edinburgh, Moray House School of Education.