This book offers a practical, methodological guide to conducting arts-based research with children by drawing on five years of the authors’ experience carrying out arts-based research with children in Australia and the UK. Based on the Australian Research Council-funded Interfaith Childhoods project, the authors describe methods of engaging communities and making data with children that foreground children’s experiences and worldviews through making, being with, and viewing art. Framing these methods of doing, seeing, being, and believing through art as modes of understanding children’s strategies for negotiating personal identities and values, this book explores the value of arts-based research as a means of obtaining complex information about children’s life worlds that can be difficult to express verbally. 

Anna Hickey-Moody is RMIT Vice-Chancellor’s Senior Research Fellow based in the Digital Ethnography Research Centre and School of Media and Communication at RMIT University, Australia, and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow.

Christine Horn is Research Associate at the Digital Ethnography Research Centre in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University, Australia.

Marissa Willcox is Research Associate at the Digital Ethnography Research Centre in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University, Australia.

Eloise Florence is Research Associate at RMIT University, Australia.