Qualitative Target Audience Formative Research for Health and Development Communication: Soul City Fieldworker Training Manual 3 - Doing Qualitative Research with Children

This manual was developed to support skills training on how to do qualitative research with children. It is the third in a series of manuals aimed at teaching organisations and individuals how to conduct qualitative formative audience research for health and development communication.

The goal of this manual is to teach research fieldworkers how to prepare themselves for doing research with children, how to collect information from children, analyse the information, and how to report it to broader health and development communication teams. The manual uses many examples drawn from the development of the Soul Buddyz series produced by Soul City.

This manual is best used where a qualitative researcher and trainer with experience in both qualitative research and research with children can facilitate fieldworker training. This publication can also be used alone to orientate experienced qualitative research fieldworkers.

This manual deals with the following issues:

• Preparing yourself for doing research with children
• Child development
• Ethics in research with children
• Soul Buddyz is used as a case study in doing research with children
• Analysing transcripts and writing a report

Please write to Soul City Institute for Health and Development Communications to request a copy of the publication (see below).