Plugging-in participatory research: reflections on a transnational collaboration with young people during the Covid-19 crisis

While there is a long tradition of using digital ethnography to observe and understand youth spaces and cultures, the Covid-19 pandemic created a unique set of conditions for research with children and young people online. For parening.digital, Laurie Day discusses the Growing-Up Under Covid-19 transnational participatory action research project with young researchers Phoebe Hanson, Anoushka Prasanna Rao, and Henrietta Tjan. Rather than providing a temporary fix during Covid restrictions, the authors argue that digitally-mediated PAR has untapped potential to connect global researchers and young people, and to democratise social research practices.