Teaching Approaches to Visualizing Data
Find open-access instructional materials from the course: Data Visualisation in Political Psychology at The University of Sheffield.
Methodspace 2022 in Review
What did we do on Methodspace in 2022? Find commentary and content for the year!
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.
Graphical Vignettes for Studying Sensitive Issues
In this interview Daria Khanolainen explains how she used graphic vignettes to study school bullying, and the usefulness of this approach for studying sensitive issues.
How telling one person’s story can represent the voices of many
Marta Eichsteller offers tips for using and writing about biographical methods.
Creative Approaches to Biographical and Life History Interviews
Dig into participants' stories with biographical and life history interviews.
Creative, Arts-Based, and Visual Methods for December 2022
Welcome to December 2022 and a focus on creative, visual, and arts-based methods!
Academic Writing Month 2022
All the posts for Academic Writing Month 2022 are here on one page!
Online Methods: Podcast with Janet Salmons
Listen to a conversation about online methods with Dr. Suzanne Albray, host of the DoBetterResearch podcast series, and Dr. Janet Salmons, Research Community Manager for Methodspace.
Creative and Participatory Methods for Studying Youth
This collection of open-access SAGE journal articles show a variety of creative and participatory methods used when studying youth.
Phenomenographic Research: Interview with Curie Scott
Interested in visual communications and research? Watch this interview with Dr. Curie Scott for an explanation of phenomenographic research.
Comics are more than fun! Journal articles show research potential.
This open-access collection of articles shows the range of research uses for comics!
Photovoice and Visual Data: Articles
Want to learn more about photovoice? Here are some open-access articles!