Co-authoring an academic paper with young people: the ethical next step in the students as researcher process

This blog post documents the journey to co-author outcomes of a Students as Researcher project (Fielding & Bragg, 2003) as a perspectives and reflections article for the Curriculum Journal (see Wall et al., 2023). We were pleased to find that authentic involvement of young people in academic research dissemination was broadly welcomed by people we spoke to, but the academic publishing systems provided multiple unexpected stumbling blocks along the way. We suggest these may hinder inclusive authorship, and innovative, participatory co-researcher methodologies.