Renewed questions of ethics in research with and for children and young people

This Special Issue is home to a collection of research papers and viewpoint contributions from 40 childhood scholars that together respond to Robson’s (2018. ‘Ethics Committees, Journal Publication and Research with Children.’ Children's Geographies 16 (5): 473–480) call for continued reflection on ethical research with and for children and young people. This editorial outlines what we think is ‘new’ in the renewed questions that are framing the ethical landscape in our research. We consider a key theme across the papers: the relationship between institutional and situational ethics, and how the authors respond to these new questions through expanded accounts of ethicality. We offer some reflections and recommendations for different readers on where we might go from here. The papers represent diverse cultures and communities and their thinking with ethics prompts, provokes and challenges us all in our own ethical decisions in a research environment that is constantly evolving.