Children and Young People as Knowledge Producers

About

Gina Porter is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at Durham University UK. She has been conducting research into participatory methodologies for many years principally in sub-Saharan Africa. Her recent work has focused on the co-production of knowledge with children and young people in Ghana Malawi and South Africa and with older people in Tanzania. Janet Townsend is a visiting fellow at the School of Geography Politics and Sociology Newcastle University UK. She is feminist who has engaged in participatory research with poor women in low income countries. She is concerned with issues of poverty power self-empowerment and the (dangerous) power of academics particularly those in prosperous countries. Kate Hampshire is a Reader in the Department of Anthropology a Lecturer in the Health and Human Sciences and a Fellow of the Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing at Durham University UK. She works on children and young peoples health and wellbeing in various settings using participatory research approaches. Her recent research includes (with Gina Porter) co-production of knowledge with young people in Ghana Malawi and South Africa childrens use of medicines in Ghana and social wellbeing among school-children in Northeast England.