Visual Dialogues: New Agendas in Inequalities Research
Lead Research Organisation:
The Open University
Department Name: Faculty of Health & Social Care
Abstract
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Organisations
Publications
Bressey C
(2011)
Seeing colour in black and white: The role of the visual in diversifying historical narratives at sites of English heritage
in Critical Social Policy
Fink J
(2011)
Inequalities, images and insights for policy and research
in Critical Social Policy
Fink J
(2011)
Walking the neighbourhood, seeing the small details of community life: Reflections from a photography walking tour
in Critical Social Policy
Fink, J.
(2014)
Challenging images? Dominant, residual and emergent meanings in on-line media representations of child poverty
in Journal for the Study of British Culture
Grosvenor I
(2011)
Back to school from a holiday in the slums! : Images, words and inequalities
in Critical Social Policy
Lamburn, Victoria J. K.
(2011)
Impression Milton Keynes
Lisa Whiting (Co-Author)
(2012)
An asset-based approach: an alternative health promotion strategy?
in Community Practitioner
Lomax H
(2012)
Contested voices? Methodological tensions in creative visual research with children
in International Journal of Social Research Methodology
Lomax H
(2011)
The politics of performance: methodological challenges of researching children's experiences of childhood through the lens of participatory video
in International Journal of Social Research Methodology
Lomax H
(2012)
Shifting the focus: children's image-making practices and their implications for analysis
in International Journal of Research & Method in Education
Lomax H
(2015)
Seen and heard? Ethics and agency in participatory visual research with children, young people and families
in Families, Relationships and Societies
Lomax, HJ
(2014)
Intergenerational Space. London: Routledge
Martin W
(2011)
Visualizing risk: Health, gender and the ageing body
in Critical Social Policy
Ortega-Alcázar I
(2011)
Migrant narratives of health and well-being: Challenging 'othering' processes through photo-elicitation interviews
in Critical Social Policy
Reavey, Paula
(2011)
Visual Methods in Psychology: Using and Interpreting Images in Qualitative Research
Sharp M
(2011)
Crossing Territories: Live Art as a Mediator of Intimacy
in Visual Communication
Whiting L
(2009)
Involving children in research.
in Paediatric nursing
Wilkins A
(2011)
School choice and the commodification of education: A visual approach to school brochures and websites
in Critical Social Policy
Description | Six seminars examined theoretical, methodological and conceptual developments in visual research methods and practice, exploring their value and insights for inequalities research and their potential to inform policy and practice: Seminar 1: Here's looking at you: Photographic practices and methods Seminar 2: Visual narratives in video and film Seminar 3: Creative arts: Methods and practices for engaging with social inequalities Seminar 4: The politics of space and place Seminar. 5: New visual technologies: Challenges & opportunities for inequalities research Seminar 6: A new visual agenda? In addition, the series hosted a programme of public events, exhibitions and workshops at which creative practitioners and arts and community organisations presented their work, providing an important space for interdisciplinary and cross-sector collaboration and development. |
Exploitation Route | Seminars and public events provided a focus for the generation of new insights for policy and practice and the potential of participatory visual research. The award holders worked closely with arts, community and health organisations in order to explore and develop effective community engagement, dissemination and outputs, enabling: - Artists and arts organisations to develop and share the ways in which they engage with communities, health and social care policy and practice and to explore synergies with academic practice. - Public and third sector organisations to explore methods of engaging with residents and to communicate the the value of urban spaces, parks and neighbourhood resources for well-being. - Development of new visual methods and tools to enable academics, third sector and wider publics to collect and communication high quality visual data for effective dialogue with policy, practice and society. Academic seminars and public events enabled the series to critically explore the capacity of visual methods to capture the ways in which people live unequal lives; how inequalities are expressed and understood through visual media; and how visual resources might productively inform policy making and welfare practices. Methodologically themed seminars (photography, video and film, creative arts, space and place and new visual technologies) provided a timely opportunity for cross-disciplinary intellectual focus on the theoretical and methodological contribution of visual research and its implications for social science theory and research practice. The seminar series generated over twenty journal articles including a special issue in Critical Social Policy with contributions spanning sociology, social policy, history, education, and health. Additional papers from the series are published in methodological, policy, community nursing and education journals and include contributions to themed issues on childhood, creative methods and video analysis. |
Sectors | Communities and Social Services/Policy Creative Economy |
URL | http://www.visualdialogues.co.uk/ |
Description | Contribution to scientific understanding, theory and methods: A programme of academic seminars and public events enabled the series to critically explore the capacity of visual methods to capture the ways in which people live unequal lives; how inequalities are expressed and understood through visual media; and how visual resources might productively inform policy making and welfare practices. Methodologically themed seminars (photography, video and film, creative arts, space and place and new visual technologies) provided a timely opportunity for cross-disciplinary intellectual focus on the theoretical and methodological contribution of visual research and its implications for social science theory and research practice. Established new networks: Seminars and public events were attended by early career and established academics, public and third sector organisations, creative artists and film-makers, enabling connections within and across disciplines and sectors, generating new multi-disciplinary networks of academics, policy-makers and practitioners and enabling new forms of community engagement and collaboration. New research capacity: A combination of academic seminars supported by a programme of events which engaged local communities and research users enabled the series to develop new research activity, not least a programme of co-produced, participatory research with communities and a collection of methodologically and theoretically informed scientific outputs elaborating the potential of critically focused, participatory research. Contribution to empirical understanding, methods and theory The seminar series generated seventeen journal articles including a special issue in Critical Social Policy with contributions spanning sociology, social policy, history, education, and health. Additional papers from the series are published in methodological, policy, community nursing and education journals and include contributions to themed issues on childhood, creative methods and video analysis. Established new networks: The seminars and events involved over two hundred participants as speakers, discussants and workshop hosts, facilitating the development of new networks spanning disciplines and sectors and considerably extending the networks of the award holders and participants. Award holders have been invited to present and host workshops (summarised in 1c). Partnerships have crossed traditional disciplinary boundaries, for example, the artist Miranda Sharpe's collaborations with Fink and Lomax and psychologist and film maker John Oates culminating in a first academic publication (Sharp, 2012) and a significant contribution to course production at the Open University. New research capacity New collaborations have generated collaborative research bidding (ESRC, AHRC Connected Communities, British Academy, Leverhulme) and collaborative writing. For early career researchers this has included first journal submissions, international speaking opportunities and participatory film-making experience. - Six seminars: Here's looking at you: Photographic practices and methods (Jan 2010); Visual narratives in video and film (June 2010); Creative arts: Methods and practices for engaging with social inequalities (Oct 2010); The politics of space and place (Jan 2011); New visual technologies: Challenges & opportunities for inequalities research (May 2011) and A new visual agenda? (Sep 2011) - Seventeen journal articles as described and listed on ROS - A programme of public events as described in section 2a including film screenings at the International Visual Methods Conference; Milton Keynes Gallery; Woughton Community Council; Milton Keynes Learning Network) - Over twenty conferences papers, including a keynote address to the ESRC Methods Festival (Rose, 2012 ) ; keynote address to the inaugural conference of the International Association of Visual Urbanists (Rose, 2012); key note to the Children's Services Conference (Whiting, 2012); papers to the British Sociological Association Annual Conference (Lomax 2011; Fink, 2o12); the International Qualitative Research Conference (Whiting, 2012); the 2nd International Visual Methods Conference (Fink, 2012; Lomax, 2012) and Assets for Health and Wellbeing Across the Life Course International Conference (Whiting, 2012). - Significant contribution to the planning and organising of the International Visual Methods Conference attended by over 200 international delegates and including art walks, gallery trips, film screening and exhibitions. A review of the conference can be fund in Mannay (2013 in press) in Visual Studies. - A project website with news, outputs and resources averaging 500 visits per month during the life of the series. - The photographer Vicky Lamburn worked alongside Fink and Lomax in the generation of visual data for the empirical work and public engagement activities. Her book 'Impression Milton Keynes' acknowledges the support of the seminar series. - The visual artist Miranda Sharp presented her work at seminar two, from which she developed and published her first academic paper (Sharp, 2011). - Early career researchers and arts practitioners have, as a result of the series generated publications (Lamburn 2012; Martin, 2012; Moore, 2013; Wilkins, 2012; Whiting, 2011, 2012); received opportunities to host international workshops (Mannay, 2012) and new collaborations with practice (Singh, 2010) and with established academics (Lomax et al, 2011). - The editors of Critical Social Policy, who published the special issue from the Series noted its unique contribution and deployment of the visual; a first for the journal 'expand(ing) its horizons significantly'. - In order to engage with audiences beyond the series, the award holders have contributed over twenty workshops, papers, film screenings and exhibitions to academic, third sector and public audiences at international conferences, research groups and publics, including: The Festival of Social Science (Rose, 2012; Lomax, 2012; ESRC Seminar Series, Women in the 1950s (Fink and Lomax, 2011); ESRC Seminar Series, Alternative Discourses of Childhood (Fink, 2012); International Visual Methods Annual Conference (Fink, 2011: Lomax, 2012; Rose, 2012); and Assets for health and wellbeing across the life Course International Conference (Whiting, 2011). A full list can be found on ROS. |
First Year Of Impact | 2010 |
Sector | Creative Economy,Education,Healthcare,Government, Democracy and Justice,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
Impact Types | Cultural Societal Economic Policy & public services |
Description | 'I'm good': Using asset mapping to capture children's wellbeing |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Scientific meeting (conference/symposium etc.) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Participants in your research or patient groups |
Results and Impact | Oral presentation, 27.09.11: Assets for health and wellbeing across the life Course International Conference, The British Library: London |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
Description | 'Photography and/as research under conditions of convergence |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Participants in your research or patient groups |
Results and Impact | keynote address to the inaugural conference for the International Association of Visual Urbanists, British Library, 8 Oct keynote address to the inaugural conference for the International Association of Visual Urbanists, British Library, 8 Oct keynote address to the inaugural conference for the International Association of Visual Urbanists, British Library, 8 Oct |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | 'Through whose eyes? Memory and meaning in photographs of motherhood from the 1950s' |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | ESRC Seminar Series - Women in 1950s' Britain: Sensory sources for 1950s' research: Working with photographs and photographers, University of Manchester, 26 November inform academis practice |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
Description | 'Visual research methods and visual culture: now you see it, now you don't |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Participants in your research or patient groups |
Results and Impact | keynote address to the ESRC Methods Festival, June keynote address to the ESRC Methods Festival, June keynote address to the ESRC Methods Festival, June |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | A new visual agenda? |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Theme: This final event brings together academics, research users, community members and wider publics in order to focus on the generation of multi-agency, cross disciplinary and innovative research agendas established during the seminar series. Organised to coincide with the Second International Visual Methods Conference http://www.visualmethods.org/ at the Open University, the event comprises an evening reception, exhibition and book launch and a children's art workshop opportunities for school age children to share in the dissemination of research |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
Description | Bringing the spaces and places of community life into view |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Exhibition of photographs and film, Milton Keynes Learning Network, Milton Keynes Gallery. 18th July Exhibition of photographs and film, Milton Keynes Learning Network, Milton Keynes Gallery. 18th July Exhibition of photographs and film, Milton Keynes Learning Network, Milton Keynes Gallery. 18th July |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | Bringing the spaces and places of community life into view |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Exhibition of photographs and film (with Gabriel, M.; Gabriel, J.; Kanlauskaite, D.; Lay, C.; Lay, J. ;Williams, D.; Williams, T. and Lamburn, V.) Second International Visual Methods Conference, The Open University, September 2011. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
Description | Bringing the spaces and places of community life into view |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Exhibition of photographs and film (with Gabriel, J.; Lay, C.; Lay, C. and Lay, J.), Woughton Community Council, Netherfield, Milton Keynes, 12th March. Exhibition of photographs and film (with Gabriel, J.; Lay, C.; Lay, C. and Lay, J.), Woughton Community Council, Netherfield, Milton Keynes, 12th March. Exhibition of photographs and film (with Gabriel, J.; Lay, C.; Lay, C. and Lay, J.), Woughton Community Council, Netherfield, Milton Keynes, 12th March. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | Contested voices? Methodological tensions and the politics of knowing in creative visual research with children' |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Scientific meeting (conference/symposium etc.) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Participants in your research or patient groups |
Results and Impact | forthcoming paper to the International Visual Methods Annual Conference, Sep 14th 2011 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
Description | Contested voices? Methodological tensions and the politics of knowing in creative visual research with children' |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Scientific meeting (conference/symposium etc.) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Participants in your research or patient groups |
Results and Impact | International Visual Methods Annual Conference, The Open University, Sep 14th 2011. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
Description | Creative arts: Methods and practices for engaging with social inequalities |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | This seminar will explore the possibilities of the creative arts for inequalities research. This will include a consideration of the ways in which social scientists are increasingly embracing these media as a means of making visible social disadvantage and division. The first part of the seminar will explore what such relationships and synergies - and the data they generate - bring to the field of inequalities research. This will be followed by three parallel workshops in which there will be opportunities to engage with different methodological and analytical approaches to work in this area. diiscussion of arts based methods within social and health sciences |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
Description | Development of a visual tool for involving primary school children in pre-registration student nurse selection |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Visual Tool improvement in practice |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | Here's Looking At You: Photographic Practices and Methods |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | This seminar will examine new and emerging theoretical perspectives, methodological approaches and interpretative processes in photography and explore their value and insights for inequalities research and its successful dissemination. sharing of methodological insights |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
Description | Informing practice through research and children's participation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Scientific meeting (conference/symposium etc.) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Participants in your research or patient groups |
Results and Impact | Children's Services Conference, Addenbrookes, 8th November |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | Listening to Children: Making their Voices Visible in Research, Policy and Practice |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Scientific meeting (conference/symposium etc.) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Participants in your research or patient groups |
Results and Impact | ESRC Seminar Presentation: 22.10.10, Open University ESRC Seminar Presentation: 22.10.10, Open University ESRC Seminar Presentation: 22.10.10, Open University |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
Description | Methodological challenges of participatory video with children and young people' |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Scientific meeting (conference/symposium etc.) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Participants in your research or patient groups |
Results and Impact | Children, young people and law research group, Faculty of Health and Social Care, The Open University, Walton Hall, 14th December. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
Description | New visual technologies: Challenges & opportunities for inequalities research |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | This seminar will examine the uses of new visual technologies, media and practices in social research, their capacity for understanding, sustaining and diminishing inequalities and their potential for informing an equalities agenda. Its focus will be upon: • the ways in which individuals and/ or communities make use of new visual technologies, media and/or practices; • how, as researchers, we might ourselves understand, develop and use these in our research • the ways in which they might be used to inform policy and practice sharing insights with colleages and wider publics |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
Description | Opening up the spaces and places of community |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Scientific meeting (conference/symposium etc.) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Participants in your research or patient groups |
Results and Impact | Centre for Research on Citizenship, Identities and Governance, The Open University, March 2012 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | Participatory Methods in Community research' |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Talk sparked questions and discussion. Festival of Social Science: Practising community-engaged research, University of Glamorgan, 31st October 2011 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
URL | http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/socsi/fos2011.html |
Description | Performing for camera? Methodological challenges of researching experiences of childhood through the lens of participatory video |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Scientific meeting (conference/symposium etc.) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Participants in your research or patient groups |
Results and Impact | Paper presented to the British Sociological Association Annual Conference, April 8th 2011 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
Description | Seeing more clearly, feeling more strongly? Interrupting policy frameworks through the visual |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Scientific meeting (conference/symposium etc.) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Participants in your research or patient groups |
Results and Impact | ESRC Seminar Series: Alternative Discourses of Childhood, Manchester Metropolitan University, June 2011 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
Description | The politics of space and place |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | This seminar will explore the ways in which the designed and built environment might sustain or ameliorate social inequalities and consider new methods for researching and capturing subjects' embodied uses of space and place. practitoners reflected on urban space and planning |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
Description | Theoretical and conceptual issues in studying families, relationships and communities: tensions and synergies' |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Scientific meeting (conference/symposium etc.) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Participants in your research or patient groups |
Results and Impact | Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance, The Open University, March 2012. Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance, The Open University, March 2012. Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance, The Open University, March 2012. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | This is my Life: childrens images of physical activity |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Scientific meeting (conference/symposium etc.) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Participants in your research or patient groups |
Results and Impact | 8th International Qualitative Research Conference Bournmouth University 8th International Qualitative Research Conference. 6th September 2010, Bournemouth University 8th International Qualitative Research Conference. 6th September 2010, Bournemouth University |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
Description | Visual Dialogues: New agendas for inequalities research' |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Scientific meeting (conference/symposium etc.) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Participants in your research or patient groups |
Results and Impact | Participatory Technologies Symposium, 29th September 2010, The Open University, Walton Hall |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
Description | Visual Methodologies |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Scientific meeting (conference/symposium etc.) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Participants in your research or patient groups |
Results and Impact | Spring School on Advanced Methodologies Youth in Communication Studies, Catholic University of Portugal. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | Visual narratives in video and film |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | The aim of this seminar is to explore the capacity of video and film to capture the ways in which people live unequal lives, how inequalities are expressed and understood through these media and how they might productively inform policy making and welfare practices. Collectively, the papers will critically explore the capacity of researcher-generated and participatory video and film for: 1.a more nuanced understanding of the lives of socially excluded and marginalised individuals and communities; 2.advancing theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches for capturing and analysing 'inequality' 3.reflexively interrogating the ways in which visual data and research practices may be complicit in reinforcing, challenging or mediating inequalities. 4.developing methods for working with communities and individuals to shape policy and practice 5.transforming policy and practice and promoting social change. Informed academic practice and led to pubnications |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
Description | Visualising meanings and experiences of community: insights from a photography walking tour |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Scientific meeting (conference/symposium etc.) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Second International Visual Methods Conference, The Open University, September 2011 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
Description | What's in a picture? Participatory visual methods with Children |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Scientific meeting (conference/symposium etc.) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Participants in your research or patient groups |
Results and Impact | Health, Well-being and Social Care and Childhood Research Group, Cardiff University, 25th January 2012 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | Working with MK partners and communities: processes, practices and relationships' |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Scientific meeting (conference/symposium etc.) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Participants in your research or patient groups |
Results and Impact | Public Engagement in Research Group, The Open University, October 2012. Public Engagement in Research Group, The Open University, October 2012. Public Engagement in Research Group, The Open University, October 2012. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |