Photovoice for disability inclusion on campus

Abstract

This study examined the lived experience of disability inclusion on the University of Georgia’s main campus in Athens, Georgia using photovoice. Photovoice is a creative research approach that combines photography with qualitative methods to promote social justice and advocacy related to an issue or topic. Ten project partners from various backgrounds participated in this study for four weeks. Through qualitative analysis of focus groups, nineteen themes were uncovered, fifteen of which were featured in a culminating exhibition at the Georgia Museum of Art to promote disability inclusion on campus. The themes representing the lived experience of disability inclusion on campus spanned social, emotional, physical, political, and temporal dimensions. We took the project a step further by collaborating with disabled individuals as project partners and using poetry as a method.