Doing Visual Research

Claudia Mitchell is a James McGill Professor in the Faculty of Education, McGill University where she is the Director of the McGill Institute for Human Development and Well-being and the founder and Director of the Participatory Cultures Lab. She is  an Honorary Professor in the School of Education, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. She was the 2016 recipient of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Gold Medal awarded for the impact of her research which  cuts across a number of areas including girlhood studies, youth, sexuality, and HIV and AIDS, gender violence, and teacher identity, and in a number of countries including Canada, South Africa, Russia, Ethiopia, and Kenya . As a methodologist she is particularly interested in participatory visual research, memory work and material culture, and autoethnography.

Doing Visual Research offers an excellent starting point for imagining how visual methods might be fruitfully employed.

• PART ONE: INTRODUCTION IntroductionGetting the Picture On a Pedagogy of Ethics in Visual ResearchWho′s in the Picture? PART TWO: VISUAL METHODS FOR SOCIAL CHANGE: TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES Not Just an Object Working with Things, Objects and Artefacts in Visual Research Seeing for OurselvesA Case for Community-Based Photography Community-Based Video-Making PART THREE: ON INTERPRETING AND USING IMAGES Working with Photo ImagesA Textual Reading on the Presence of Absence Data Collections and Building a Democratic Archive′No More Pictures without a Context′ (with Naydene de Lange) Look and SeeImages of Image-Making What Can a Visual Researcher Do with a Camera? Changing the PictureHow Can Images Influence Policy-Making?