Eliza Raymond

Eliza Raymond is the co-founder of the award-winning social enterprise, GOOD Travel. In addition to her work with GOOD Travel, she serves as senior advisor to RISE Travel Institute and teaches entrepreneurship, innovation and social change at the University for Peace established by the General Assembly of the United Nations. Eliza's background is in international development and includes several years with Family Planning managing their sexual and reproductive health programmes in the Pacific. She is currently conducting her PhD in Tourism Management at Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington. Her child-centred research is exploring the relationship between travel during childhood and global citizenship. 

While Article 12 of United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child recognises that children should have the right to express their views in all matters affecting them, children are frequently marginalised in research. Indeed, in the context of tourism, Wu et al (2019) state that “it is evident that children's voices have been under-valued by [tourism] researchers as they either approached children as passive actors or only assessed their parents' or other stakeholders' perspectives” (p. 167). This presentation will explore key barriers to the inclusion of children in research ranging from ethical concerns to participant recruitment challenges. Through drawing on evidence from a child-centred PhD being carried out in Aotearoa, practical approaches to overcome such barriers will be discussed. While the examples will be from a tourism context, many of the approaches and resources that will be presented will be relevant across disciplines.  

Friday 16 June 2023, 1 pm (NZT).