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.

• 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?

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