Elicitation Interviews: Using Photos in Online Research
Typically, interviewers are accustomed to using words: we ask questions, we prompt follow-up responses, but the same principles of visual communication are true for research exchanges. Find tips and examples in this post.
Slow Ontology 2.0 as Inspiration for Methodological Approaches
What if we didn’t have to go fast to do our academic work and research? What if we could embrace the spaces and places around us to slow down? What could that mean for us personally, professionally, and in how we relate to social justice and ecological issues?
Academic Writing with Pen in Hand
Sometimes taking a break from the keyboard to write by hand unleashes creativity.
Video Data Analysis: How 21st century video data reshapes social science research
Video capture is ubiquitous. What does it mean for researchers, and how can we analyze such data?
Analysing Politics, Protest, and Digital Popular Culture
How can you study digital culture and activism? Watch this interview with Dr. Lyndon Wray.
Seeing and Hearing the Problem: Using Video in Qualitative Research
Look at the choices of video methods made by authors of four research articles.
Analyzing Visual Data
How do we understand and interpret visual or video data? See these open-access articles for ideas and examples.
Analyzing Photos in Photovoice Studies
Find a collection of open-access articles about analyzing and interpreting photos generated by participants using photovoice mmethods.
Photovoice: An Introduction to the Method and Analysis Tips
How do you analyze data in photovoice studies? Jean M. Breny, Shannon L. McMorrow offer an introduction.
Analyzing Aural and Sound Data
The baby crying next door. Chaotic street life that permeates the apartment. Music. The tone of voices in the interview recording. Whether intentional or not, sometimes important data can be heard. How do we analyze and interpret aural data? These open-access articles offer some examples.
Meet the Authors: Analyzing and Interpreting Qualitative Data
Charles Vanover, Paul Mihas, and Johnny Saldaña discuss their excellent book in this lively video interview.
Teaching Approaches to Visualizing Data
Find open-access instructional materials from the course: Data Visualisation in Political Psychology at The University of Sheffield.
Resources for Creative, Arts-Based, and Visual Methods
To learn more about the varied ways to collect, elicit, or generate data with creative and visual methods, consult these sources.
Visual Research with Gillian Rose
In this interview Gillian Rose and Janet Salmons discuss visual methodologies and methods, and the fifth edition of Rose’s important book, Visual Methodologies: An Introduction to Researching with Visual Materials.
Ethical Issues in Creative and Visual Research
Images or other creative expressions generated by participants can offer rich sources of data. What are the ethical issues in such studies, and how can we navigate them? Find examples and guidance in this collection of open-access articles.
Using Visual Methods in Research: Podcast and Video Interview
Listen to Suzanne Culshaw and Suzanne Albary discuss visual methods in research.
Emerging Methods: Creative Research Examples
Not all research involves words or numbers. Creative, visual, and arts-based methods are being used in new ways, in many fields of study. Find open-access examples in this post.
The Doll’s Marriage: An Ethnographic Encounter with Rural Children and Childhood
In this post Dr. Qamar discusses the use and interpretation of photographic data.
Student Storytelling Needs Multimodality: Creating Authentic Spaces for Students to Story their Lives
In this post, Sara Johnson reflects on the role of multimodality in student storytelling as it emerges in her work and her research into that work.
Creative Uses of Biographical Research Methods
Dr. Eichsteller and Dr. Howard Davis, co-authors of Biographical Research Methods, discuss varied ways to use these approaches.