Resources - Governance (Mesh)

Literature: Who should decide about children’s and adolescents’ participation in health research?

This paper from BMC Medical Ethics explores how researchers and research centres can activtly involve children and young people in health research activities and in the development of research proposals. They used group discussions with community members and schools students in rural Kenya to explore views on the topic.

Literature: Public Attitudes to Research Governance: A qualitative study in a deliberative context

This report presents findings from an in-depth research study that aimed to:

• Situate the role governance plays in shaping attitudes to biomedical research
• Explore public responses to the principles and processes associated with different models of governance, and investigate the processes that function to reassure the public and which instil confidence in the way biomedical research is governed.