Overview

This comprehensive volume explores the set of theoretical, methodological, ethical and analytical issues that shape the ways in which visual qualitative research is conducted in psychology. Using visual data such as film making, social media analyses, photography and model making, the book uniquely uses visual qualitative methods to broaden our understanding of experience and subjectivity. In recent years, visual research has seen a growing emphasis on the importance of culture in experience-based qualitative methods. Featuring contributors from diverse research backgrounds including narrative psychology, personal construct theory and psychoanalysis, the book examines the potential for visual methods in psychology. In each chapter of the book, the contributors explore and address how a visual approach has contributed to existing social and psychological theory in their line of research. The book provides up-to-date insights into combining methods to create new multi-modal methodologies, and analyses these with psychology-specific questions in mind. It covers topics such as sexuality, identity, group processes, child development, forensic psychology, race and gender, and would be the ideal companion for those studying or undertaking research in disciplines like psychology, sociology and gender studies.

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Author:   Paula Reavey (London South Bank University, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   2nd edition
Weight:   1.040kg
ISBN:  

9781138491793

ISBN 10:   1138491799
Pages:   606
Publication Date:   24 August 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of figures and tables Foreword Preface to the second edition Acknowledgements List of contributors Introduction 1 The Return to Experience: Psychology and the Visual Paula Reavey Part I. Static media: the use of photography in qualitative research 2 Image and Imagination Alan Radley 3 Bend it Like Beckham? The Challenges of Reading Gender and Visual Culture Rosalind Gill 4 Using photographs to explore the embodiment of pleasure in everyday life Lilliana Del Busso 5 Narrating Biographical Disruption and Repair: Exploring the Place of Absent Images in Women's Experiences of Cancer and Chemotherapy Hannah Frith 6 Using photographs of places, spaces and objects to explore South Asian Women’s experience of close relationships and marriage Anamika Majumdar 7 Reflections on a Photo-Production Study: Practical, Analytic and Epistemic Issues Steven D. Brown, Ava Kanyeredzi, Laura McGrath, Paula Reavey & Ian Tucker Part II. Dynamic features: social media, film and video qualitative research 8 Mental health apps, self-tracking and the visual Lewis Goodings 9 The Visual in psychological research and child witness practice Johanna Motzkau 10 The Video-Camera as a Cultural Object: The Presence of (an)Other. Michael Forrester 11 Girls on Film: Video Diaries as ‘Autoethnographies’ Maria Pini & Valerie Walkerdine 12 Visual identities: Choreographies of gaze, body movement and speech and ‘ways of knowing’ in mother-midwife interaction Helen Lomax 13 Methodological considerations for visual research on Instagram Kayla Marshall, Kerry Chamberlain & Darrin Hodgetts 14 The big picture: Using visual methods to explore online photo sharing and gender in digital space. Rose Capdevila & Lisa Lazard Part III. Shared visions: opening up researcher-participant dialogues in the community and beyond 15 Visualising Mental Health with a LGBT Community Group: Method, Process, (Affect) Theory Katherine Johnson 16 Imagery and Association in a group based method: the Visual Matrix Lynne Froggett 17 Working with group-level data in phenomenological research: a modified visual matrix method Darren Langdridge, Jacqui Gabb & Jamie Lawson 18 Risk Communication and Participatory Research : ‘Fuzzy Felt’, Visual Games and Group Discussion of Complex Issues Angela Cassidy & John Maule 19 Picturing the Field: Social Action Research, Psychoanalytic Theory, and Documentary Filmmaking: Janice Haaken 20 Moving from social networks to visual metaphors with the Relational Mapping Interview: An Example in Early Psychosis Zoë V.R. Boden & Michael Larkin 21 Building visual worlds: Maps as a tool for exploring located experience Laura McGrath & Shauna Mullarkey 22 Towards a Visual Social Psychology of Identity and Representation: photographing the self, weaving the family in a multicultural British community Caroline Howarth and Shose Kessi 23 ‘I didn’t know that I could feel this relaxed in my body’: Using visual methods to research bisexual people’s embodied experiences of subjectivity and space Helen Bowes-Catton, Meg-John Barker & Christina Richards 24 Travelling along ‘Rivers of Experience’: Personal Construct Psychology and visual metaphors in research. Alex Iantaffi 25 Psychogeography and the Study of Social Environments: Extending Visual Methodological Research in Psychology Alexander John Bridger 26 Tribal gatherings: Using art to disseminate research on club culture Sarah Riley, Richard Brown, Christine Griffin & Yvette Morey 27 Sometimes all the lights go out in my head: creating Blackout the multi-sensory immersive experience of Bipolar II Paul Hanna & Mig Burgess Part IV. Ethical, analytical and methodological reflections on visual research 28 The photo-elicitation interview as a multimodal site for reflexivity Tim Fawns 29 Image-based methodology in Social Psychology in Brazil: perspectives and possibilities Arley Andriolo 30 Impressionist Reflections on Visual Research in Community Research and Action Darrin Hodgetts, Kerry Chamberlain & Shiloh Groot 31 Polytextual Thematic Analysis for Visual Data – analying visual images. Kate Gleeson 32 ‘So you think we’ve moved, changed, the representation got more what?’ Methodological and analytical reflections on visual (photo-elicitation) methods used in the men-as-fathers study Karen Henwood, Fiona Shirani and Mark Finn 33 On Utilising a Visual Methodology: Shared Reflections and Tensions llana Mountian, Rebecca Lawthom, Anne Kellock, Karen Duggan, Judith Sixsmith, Carolyn Kagan, Jennifer Hawkins, John Haworth, Asiya Siddiquee, Claire Worley, David Brown, John Griffiths & Christina Purcell Index

Reviews

Praise for the previous edition: Visual Methods in Psychology establishes a major contribution to the growing body of theories on visual methods in psychology. ... The reader is presented with a great diversity of practices and methods of visual data ... (which) expands our understanding of the broad range of possibilities, constraints and of caveats that are in involved in visual practices in research methodology. ... The overall composition of the book is framed as an interpretive guideline by the editor, that enables students, practitioners, researchers and scientists easy access to the content. ... The wide-ranging content of this work offers a diverse spectrum of empirical studies and theories about the intrinsic strengths of visual approaches in psychology research methods that could be invaluable to social work educators and students. - Kees J.M Van Haaster, Utrecht University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands, in The International Journal for Social Work and Social Care Education This book brings something genuinely new to the rapidly growing field of visual research. In fact, as a collection it provides a real step change in our understanding of the nature, the roles and the potential of visual research methods. - Alan Bryman, Professor of Organizational and Social Research, The University of Leicester, UK The scope of this text is impressive. It spans a good range of approaches to analysis and theoretical approaches, and covers an engaging array of areas of psychology. What is really commendable is the interpretive framework provided by the editor in framing why and how visual materials have now - eventually - come into use within psychological research. This makes it a very welcome volume that addresses a current gap in methodological debates within psychology. - Erica Burman, Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

Author Information

Paula Reavey is Professor of Psychology and Mental Health at London South Bank University, UK, and Director of Research and Education for the Design in Mental Health Network, UK. She has used a variety of visual-qualitative methods to examine lived experiences of memory, mental health and distress.

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