PHOTOVOICE

Tuesday 24 Mar 2020, 08:30 → 16:00 Africa/Johannesburg

ROOM 19 (JOHANNES BRILL)

Participatory action research: photovoice (qualitative research methodology)

 

Date: 24 March 2020

Venue: JOHANNES BRILL ROOM 19

Time: 8:30-16:00

Presenter: Prof. Sandra Ferreira

Target audience: UFS postgraduate students, staff members and postdoc fellows (Participants will be responsible for their own transport and accomodation)

Presentation: English

 

Programme director: Danila Liebenberg

Time	Theme	Facilitator
March 2020
8:30-10:30	Photo Elicitation presentation: session 1	Prof Sandra
10:45-12:45	Photo Elicitation presentation: Session 2	Prof Sandra
13:45-16:00	Photo Elicitation presentation: Session 3	Prof Sandra

 

Photo Elicitation is a qualitative method of researching by using photographs or other visual mediums in research interviews to generate verbal discussion for creating data and knowledge. Different layers of meaning can be discovered as this method evokes deep emotions, memories, and ideas. Photo elicitation interviews contribute to trustworthiness and rigour of the research findings through member checking.

Aims of the Photo Elicitation workshop are to:

• Acquire a basic knowledge of Photo Elicitation as a visual method of doing qualitative research.
• Comprehend the value of the utilisation of visual images to explore participants’ experiences and meaning-making.
• Indicate how Photo Elicitation can be applied in research to create data and knowledge in research.

 

1. Sandra B Ferreira is a qualified social worker and a social work educator at the Department of Social Work for more than four decades. She has published several articles and contributed to several books in the field of Social Work. Both as an academic and social work practitioner, she understands the relevancy and value of qualitative research in solving challenges communities face. Photo Elicitation is a visual research method and based on the idea of introducing a photograph into a research interview. The researcher supplies those photos or participants are asked to bring their own. In both cases, the participants are supplied “guiding questions” which help them talk about the photo and/or select their photo. The difference between interviews using images and text, and interviews using words alone lies in the ways participants respond to these two forms of symbolic representation. According to Harper (2002), the parts of the brain that process visual information are evolutionarily older than the parts that process verbal information, thus images evoke more profound elements of human consciousness than words, bringing about a deeper shared understanding for both the researcher and the participant.