num_pages: 232
description: Doing Visual Research offers an innovative introduction to the use of photography collaborative video drawing objects multi-media production and installation in research. Claudia Mitchell explains how visual methods can be used as modes of inquiry as well as modes of representation for social research. The book looks at a range of conceptual and practical approaches to a range of tools and methods whilst also highlighting the interpretive and ethical issues that arise when engaging in visual research. Claudia Mitchell draws on her own work in the field of visual research throughout to offer extensive examples from a variety of settings and with a variety of populations.Topics covered  Photographs and memory work studies Video and social change Participatory archiving with drawings and photos Working with images/Writing about images Can visual methods make a difference? From practice to policy Doing Visual Research takes an interdisciplinary approach to the subject of visual research producing a practical introduction to the subject that will be of great use to students and researchers across the social sciences and in particular in education communication sociology gender development social work and public health.
language: English
title: Doing Visual Research
publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd