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Resources for visual research methods: General

'Visual research methods' are research methods which use visual materials made either by the researcher or by participants in research projects. They are increasingly popular across the social sciences.

There are some resources that are useful in relation to visual research methods in general.

For example, the British Sociological Association's Visual Sociology Study Group has a website

http://www.visualsociology.org.uk/

And so too does the International Visual Sociology Association

http://www.visualsociology.org/

Discussions of visual research methods are often published in the online journals FQS and Sociological Research Online, as well as the new Visual Methodologies; all of these are open-access journals, meaning you don't have to pay to read their contents.

The UK's National Centre for Research Methods is a good source of information about all sorts of research methods, including visual research methods.

The inVisio website hosts a range of resources on various aspects of visual research practice in business and management studies in particular

http://moodle.in-visio.org/

There are various sorts of visual methods on display on the Innovative Ethngraphies website

http://www.innovativeethnographies.net/

Resources for visual research methods: Photovoice

A key resource for anyone interested in photovoice as a method is the Photovoice website

http://www.photovoice.org/

The Participate 2015 site hosts lots of materials about participatory research as part of its mission to provide high quality evidence on the reality of poverty at ground level by bringing the perspectives of the poorest into the debate. It often includes material on participatory research methods using photography and film

http://participate2015.org/

Digital storytelling is closely related to photovoice, and is oriented towards "rediscovering how to listen to each other and share first person stories":

There are courses to teach you how to make a digital story at

Resources for visual research methods: Participatory Mapping

The Participate 2015 site hosts lots of materials about participatory research as part of its mission to provide high quality evidence on the reality of poverty at ground level by bringing the perspectives of the poorest into the debate. It often includes material on participatory research methods using photography and film

http://participate2015.org/

The Realities research programme at the University of Manchester, UK, has several useful papers online that they call 'toolkits' for qualitative researchers. Toolkit 03: Participatory Mapping: An innovative sociological method is by Nick Emmel, University of Leeds.  This toolkit is an introduction to using participatory maps in your research. It explains some of the benefits of this approach, which can be used with individuals and groups, often together with more traditional interview techniques. It gives practical tips on how to approach this kind of research, taken from experiences in the Connected Lives project.

http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/morgancentre/methods-and-resources/toolkits/toolkit-3/

Resources for visual research methods: Participatory Video

The Realities research programme at the University of Manchester, UK, has several useful papers online that they call 'toolkits' for qualitative researchers. Toolkit 04: Participant-produced video is by Stewart Muir, Realities/Morgan Centre, University of Manchester.  This toolkit gives an introduction to asking research participants to produce their own videos about themselves and their lives. It briefly looks at the benefits of this technique and gives practical advice on how to approach the task, taken from experiences in the Family Background in Everyday Lives project.

http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/morgancentre/methods-and-resources/toolkits/toolkit-4/

The Better Participatory Video Practice was a series of webinars held in 2014. It is archived here

https://betterpvpractice.wordpress.com/

The Participate 2015 site hosts lots of materials about participatory research as part of its mission to provide high quality evidence on the reality of poverty at ground level by bringing the perspectives of the poorest into the debate. It often includes material on participatory research methods using photography and film

http://participate2015.org/

Digital storytelling is a particular form of participatory research, less oriented towards answering research questions and more towards "rediscovering how to listen to each other and share first person stories".

There are courses to teach you how to make a digital story at