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Exploring School Bullying: Designing the Research Question with Young Co-Researchers

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O’Brien, Niamh, Doyle, Audrey·2023·Social Sciences
DOI 10.3390/socsci12050276
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Participatory Action Research (PAR) empowers young people to work alongside adult researchers to determine the purpose/scope of research projects. By naming the purpose of the research, young people have the potential to transform it. Beginning with a broad question, we worked in collaboration with secondary school students (co-researchers) and staff to decide on the focal research question. Prior to recruiting the co-researchers, we conducted an ‘exploration study’ using a qualitative online questionnaire distributed to the wider school population, to ascertain the core bullying issues. Although the questionnaire highlighted complexities in recognising bullying, misogynistic behaviour was stressed as a particular concern. In-depth discussions with the co-researchers and reflections on the questionnaire findings over several months gave us further insight into this issue, as well as the complexities of determining bullying/banter. Our research question was determined as: “Does gender bullying happen at this school?” Two distinct methodological and process-related insights arose from this work: power dynamics and the construct of time as duration and a non-linear process. This paper contributes to the literature on hearing stakeholder views as well as on actively including students in designing and developing research foundations, that is the research question, an under-explored topic in the wider literature.

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Authors
O’Brien, N., & Doyle, A.
Affiliations
  • Anglia Ruskin University (GB)
  • Dublin City University (IE)
Corresponding author
O’Brien, Niamh
ORCID
Venue
Social Sciences
Publisher
MDPI AG
Published
2023-05-04
Volume
12
Issue
5
Pages
276
ISSN
2076-0760 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.3390/socsci12050276
OpenAlex
W4381943124
Cited by
5
References
64
Citations by year
2026: 3 · 2025: 1 · 2023: 1
FWCI
2.15
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
Locations
  • Social Sciences (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • Dublin City University Open Access Institutional Repository (Dublin City University) (acceptedVersion)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
Funders
The Kings Hospital (N/A)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Children's Rights and Participation
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Participatory Visual Research Methods
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression
Keywords
school bullying, participatory action research, co-researchers, research question formulation, power relations, misogyny, banter, high school students, stakeholder perspectives

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