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.
Chapter One: Introduction: Visual Research Chapter Two: Ethics in Visual Research Chapter Three: Objects and Things in Visual Research Chapter Four: Photovoice Chapter Five: Participatory Video Chapter Six: Researcher-generated Tools In Participatory Visual Research Chapter Seven: Working With Photo Images Chapter Eight: The Democratic Archive Chapter Nine: Working with Images of Producing and Audiencing Chapter Ten: Communicating and Disseminating Visual Research: Community Dialogue and Policymaking