scholarly journals Drawing Out Their Stories: A Scoping Review of Participatory Visual Research Methods With Newcomer Children

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 160940692093339
Author(s):  
Alison Brown ◽  
Rebecca Spencer ◽  
Jessie-Lee McIsaac ◽  
Vivian Howard
Keyword(s):  
Scoping Review ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Quality Data ◽  
Visual Methods ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Visual Research ◽  
Visual Research Methods ◽  
Relational Factors ◽  
Digital Stories

Researchers are increasingly using participatory visual methods (PVM) to gain a deeper understanding of newcomer children’s experiences, sense of identity, relationships, needs, strengths, and aspirations. By taking photos, producing digital stories, creating maps, drawing, sculpting, and other visual-based practices, children can help us understand how they navigate their complex worlds. We conducted a scoping review to explore what is known about participatory visual research with newcomer children. We searched nine databases, screened 692 articles, and included 21 articles for synthesis and analysis. Five common and connected areas were identified as important for consideration when envisioning, planning, and conducting this type of research with newcomer children: PVM provides an opportunity for children to communicate complex feelings and disrupt deficit discourse; participation in PVM research is highly dependent on varying cultural, economic, and relational factors; providing a range and choice of data collection activities permits deeper engagement and higher quality data; PVM can enhance meaningful engagement, reduce power asymmetry, and engender confidence and self-awareness; developing and sustaining trusted relationships are integral to the research process. The review reveals the need for more researcher reflexivity with an explicit attention to assumptions, values, and ethical considerations and suggests opportunities for researchers to better ensure newcomer children can share and shape their own stories.

scholarly journals The Gaataa’aabing Visual Research Method: A Culturally Safe Anishinaabek Transformation of Photovoice

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 160940691985163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beaudin Bennett ◽  
Marion Maar ◽  
Darrel Manitowabi ◽  
Taima Moeke-Pickering ◽  
Doreen Trudeau-Peltier ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
First Nations ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Northern Ontario ◽  
Visual Research ◽  
Visual Research Methods ◽  
Cultural Frameworks ◽  
Community Outcomes

Photovoice is a community-based participatory visual research method often described as accessible to vulnerable or marginalized groups and culturally appropriate for research with Indigenous peoples. Academic researchers report adapting the photovoice method to the sociocultural context of Indigenous participants and communities with whom they are working. However, detailed descriptions on cultural frameworks for transforming photovoice in order for it to better reflect Indigenous methodologies are lacking, and descriptions of outcomes that occur as a result of photovoice are rare. We address the paucity of published methodological details on the participant-directed Indigenization of photovoice. We conducted 13 visual research group sessions with participants from three First Nations communities in Northern Ontario, Canada. Our intent was to privilege the voice of participants in a mindful exploration aimed at cocreating a transformation of the photovoice method, in order to meet participants’ cultural values. Gaataa’aabing is the Indigenized, culturally safe visual research method created through this process. Gaataa’aabing represents an Indigenous approach to visual research methods and a renewed commitment to engage Indigenous participants in meaningful and productive ways, from the design of research questions and the Indigenization of research methods, to knowledge translation and relevant policy change. Although Gaataa’aabing was developed in collaboration with Anishinaabek people in Ontario, Canada, its principles will, we hope, resonate with many Indigenous groups due to the method’s focus on (1) integration of cultural values of the respective Indigenous community(ies) with whom researchers are collaborating and (2) placing focus on concrete community outcomes as a requirement of the research process.

scholarly journals Participatory dissemination: bridging in-depth interviews, participation, and creative visual methods through Interview-Based Zine-Making (IBZM)

2021 ◽  
Vol 199 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chiara Valli
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Visual Methods ◽  
Research Dissemination ◽  
Research Participants ◽  
Visual Research Methods ◽  
Printed Materials ◽  
New Research

In this article, I make the case for an underexplored research practice – participatory dissemination – and reflectively introduce a new research method, IBZM (Interview-Based Zine-Making), which I developed in my fieldwork research on the gentrifying neighborhood of Bushwick, Brooklyn, in New York City. Participatory dissemination is a practice that engages research participants in the interpretation of preliminary research findings, and through art-based methods, leads to the coproduction of visual outputs and research communication for diversified audiences, especially those beyond solely academic readers. Participatory dissemination has received little attention within academic debates thus far. The paper addresses this gap in the literature by outlining the rationale and potential for incorporating participatory processes within research dissemination, even where so-called traditional (non- or less-participatory) research methods are used. IBZM follows the technique of zine-making (that is, the practice of cutting, rearranging, and creatively pasting printed materials in a new pamphlet), but instead of using media texts and pictures as raw materials, IBZM works with transcribed texts from researcher-conducted interviews. The aim is to let the research participants (zine-makers) engage with the perspectives of the interviewees and find assonances, disagreements, and connections with their own thoughts. The output is a collectively produced zine to be further disseminated. IBZM offers a means of combining traditional detached research methods, such as interviews, with participatory and creative/visual research methods. As such, participatory dissemination can be helpful in bridging literatures and debates on participatory and traditional research methods, providing new avenues for researchers working primarily with the latter to incorporate participatory elements into their research process and outputs.

scholarly journals Seeing information: Visual methods as entry points to information practices

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 229-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Hicks ◽  
Annemaree Lloyd
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Detailed Examination ◽  
Photo Elicitation ◽  
Visual Methods ◽  
Spatial Constraints ◽  
Visual Research ◽  
Visual Research Methods ◽  
Information Practices ◽  
Entry Points ◽  
Temporal And Spatial

Recognising the importance of exploring multimodal experiences of information, this paper provides a detailed examination of the scope of visual research methods within information practices research. More specifically, the paper will use the examples from one completed study (Lloyd and Wilkinson, 2017) and one ongoing study (Hicks, in progress) to discuss and provide a detailed examination of the use, affordances and limitations of two research methods that centre upon participant-created photographs: photo-elicitation and photovoice. Demonstrating that the use of photographs helps to evoke and communicate complex meaning as well as to mediate between linguistic, temporal and spatial constraints, this study highlights the continuing need to develop research methods that privilege participants’ understandings and perspectives.

One step closer to the field: visual methods in marketing and consumer research

2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 300-318 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laila Shin Rohani ◽  
May Aung ◽  
Khalil Rohani
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Consumer Research ◽  
Marketing Research ◽  
Text Messages ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Visual Methods ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Visual Method ◽  
Visual Research ◽  
Visual Research Methods

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to examine the use of visual research methods in the area of recent marketing and consumer research. Design/methodology/approach – Content analysis was used to investigate visual method in articles from Journal of Consumer Research; Journal of Marketing; Journal of Marketing Research; Journal of Marketing Management; Consumption, Markets, and Culture and Qualitative Market Research. Abstract, key words and methodology sections of all articles published in these six journals from 2002 to 2012 were scanned to identify which of them applied visual methods in their studies. The selected articles were then closely analyzed to discover how visual research methods were used and in what manner did they contribute to the marketing and consumer behavior discipline. Findings – This study found that a growing number of marketing and consumer researchers utilized visual methods to achieve their research goals in various approaches such as cultural inventories, projective techniques and social artifacts. Visual method is useful when research deals with children who are not fully developed and able to comprehend text messages and also advantageous when investigating informants’ metaphorical thoughts about a subject or the content of their mind. Originality/value – This paper examined how visual methods have assisted marketing and consumer researchers in achieving their goals and suggests when and how researchers can utilize the visual methods for future research.

scholarly journals Using Photography as a Creative, Collaborative Research Tool

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ailsa Winton
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Full Potential ◽  
Collaborative Approach ◽  
Visual Research ◽  
Visual Research Methods ◽  
Social Art

Drawing on debates in the complementary fields of participatory, youth and visual research methods, the paper discusses an experimental photography project carried out as part of a broader study with young people in Mexico City on spatial experience, belonging and exclusion. The paper describes the mechanics of the project, considers the kind of data it produced, and discusses the different outcomes for participants and researcher, including its difficulties and limitations. It finds that the creative, collaborative approach used has potential for opening the research process to embrace creative, reflexive, complicated “selves,” but warns that this outcome is not automatic: collaboration between visual researchers and social art therapy practitioners would be one important step in realizing the full potential of creative photography in research.

Exploring research relationships and other ethical challenges of participatory visual research in remote environments

2018 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 604-623
Author(s):  
Meredith Nash ◽  
Robyn Moore
Keyword(s):  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Research Participation ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Women In Science ◽  
Visual Methods ◽  
Ethical Challenges ◽  
Visual Research ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
Engineering Mathematics

This critical reflection provides fellow researchers with insights into the ethical challenges of using visual methods in remote environments. We draw on Fine’s notion of ‘working the hyphens’ to explore the complexities of studying a leadership program for women in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine (STEMM) on a ship in Antarctica. We reflect on how our researcher identities and relationships with participants shaped the research process and emergent ethical tensions. For instance, we discuss ethical issues that arose in relation to the contextual and relational aspects of the environment including psychological and physical demands of research participation in Antarctica, privacy and isolation in remote environments, and rapport. We also discuss issues related to participant-produced video diaries specifically including consent, confidentiality and participant safety. To conclude, we highlight implications for visual research in other remote settings.

Can visual methods actually challenge hierarchies? A case study from Papua New Guinea

2017 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 371-388
Author(s):  
Laura Simpson Reeves ◽  
Lauren Leigh Hinthorne
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Local Community ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Visual Methods ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Visual Research ◽  
Visual Research Methods

Abstract Visual research methods continue to be explored as a viable tool within community development, particularly amongst advocates for participatory approaches. It is widely agreed that visual research methods can assist participants in externalizing abstract concepts and create spaces for reflective dialogue. However, these methods are frequently used across the sector with little theorizing or critical reflection. Moreover, visual research methods and participatory processes are often conflated. There is also an assumption that visual research methods, particularly when used in development contexts, can disrupt power structures. This research draws on a case study from Papua New Guinea (PNG) to modestly challenge this assumption and, in doing so, argues for more critical and reflexive practice across community development. The article critically analyses a workshop held in rural PNG in 2013 that employed a visual multimethod approach. The workshop took place over four days with the aim of creating a local community development plan. Perhaps unsurprisingly, we found that while the visual research methods used in PNG demonstrated evidence of shifting some power structures, this was not necessarily because of the method or methods themselves, and was actually more closely linked to the locale in which we facilitated the method(s).

scholarly journals The socioeconomic burden of antibiotic resistance in conflict-affected settings and refugee hosting countries: a systematic scoping review

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elsa Kobeissi ◽  
Marilyne Menassa ◽  
Krystel Moussally ◽  
Ernestina Repetto ◽  
Ismail Soboh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Antibiotic Resistance ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Statistical Power ◽  
Data Extraction ◽  
Quality Data ◽  
Sufficient Information ◽  
Socioeconomic Burden ◽  
General Populations ◽  
Global Threat ◽  
The Cost

Abstract Background Antibiotic resistance (ABR) is a major global threat. Armed and protracted conflicts act as multipliers of infection and ABR, thus leading to increased healthcare and societal costs. We aimed to understand and describe the socioeconomic burden of ABR in conflict-affected settings and refugee hosting countries by conducting a systematic scoping review. Methods A systematic search of PubMed, Medline (Ovid), Embase, Web of Science, SCOPUS and Open Grey databases was conducted to identify all relevant human studies published between January 1990 and August 2019. An updated search was also conducted in April 2020 using Medline/Ovid. Independent screenings of titles/abstracts followed by full texts were performed using pre-defined criteria. The Newcastle-Ottawa Scale was used to assess study quality. Data extraction and analysis were based on the PICOS framework and following the PRISMA-ScR guideline. Results The search yielded 8 studies (7 publications), most of which were single-country, mono-center and retrospective studies. The studies were conducted in Lebanon (n = 3), Iraq (n = 2), Jordan (n = 1), Palestine (n = 1) and Yemen (n = 1). Most of the studies did not have a primary aim to assess the socioeconomic impact of ABR and were small studies with limited statistical power that could not demonstrate significant associations. The included studies lacked sufficient information for the accurate evaluation of the cost incurred by antibiotic resistant infections in conflict-affected countries. Conclusion This review highlights the scarcity of research on the socioeconomic burden of ABR on general populations in conflict-affected settings and on refugees and migrants in host countries, and lists recommendations for consideration in future studies. Further studies are needed to understand the cost of ABR in these settings to develop and implement adaptable policies.

scholarly journals Photo-Based Evaluation: A Method for Participatory Evaluation With Adolescents

2021 ◽  
pp. 109821402092778
Author(s):  
Deinera Exner-Cortens ◽  
Kathleen C. Sitter ◽  
Marisa Van Bavel ◽  
Alysia Wright
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Evaluation Method ◽  
Prevention Programs ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Youth Engagement ◽  
Youth Health ◽  
Visual Evaluation ◽  
Healthy Relationships ◽  
Visual Research ◽  
Translation Tools

Actively engaging adolescents in meaningful program evaluation is a topic of growing interest. One possibility for such engagement is the use of photographs as part of visual evaluation, so that youth can directly engage with the research process. In this Method Note, we describe the development and implementation of a participatory, photo-based evaluation method for youth health promotion/prevention programs. Youth in this study were participants in a gender-transformative healthy relationships program for boys. We present literature supporting the use of photographs as a visual research method and for involving youth as active participants in evaluation, and explore the feasibility, utility, and acceptability of this innovative application of existing methods based on researcher experience and youth feedback. We conclude with implications for photo-based evaluation of health promotion/prevention programs, highlighting the promise of this method for promoting critical youth engagement in evaluation and the creation of meaningful knowledge translation tools.

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