Use Of Photo-elicitation Research Articles

About Research - Qualitative Data Collection: Photo Elicitation.

Photo elicitation is a qualitative data collection technique in which the researcher includes photographs or other visual images as part of participant interviews. The researcher might provide the photographs or might ask the participants to bring photographs to the interview. This technique enhances the breadth and depth of verbal qualitative interviews. The use of photo elicitation can enhance the rigor of a qualitative study. There are both advantages and disadvantages of this data collection technique. Ethical issues warrant special consideration.

Upotreba foto-elicitacije u sociologiji

In sociological research, photography is most commonly used to supplement presented data and less frequently as a data collection technique. This paper focuses on using photography to examine the gender aspect of poverty in rural areas of Serbia. Through the application of photo-elicitation, data were collected in field research during 2015 in Serbia. The data include photographs taken by girls and women beneficiaries of social services. Additionally, they incorporate the notes on the motives and interpretation of the photographs taken, along with transcripts of interviews conducted with the photographers a month after the photography sessions. The research has shown that photography, as a medium, connects the emotional experiences of poverty among research participants with the factual conditions of their lives in material deprivation and isolation. Consequently, it offers the possibility of articulating diverse meanings of poverty. The diversity of meanings of poverty is evident in the specific social categories to which the interviewees in this study belong, such as persons with disabilities, for example. Based on the findings of this research, the use of photo-elicitation emerges as particularly significant in sociological studies that involve the exploration of subjective meanings and experiences of specific population groups, such as girls and women living in poverty in rural areas of Serbia.

Children picturing suffering in dark tourism: the use of photo-elicitation method

ABSTRACT Dark tourism subject matter can be powerfully visual. This study adopts the photo-elicitation method to examine children’s perspectives of the exhibitions at the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Thematic analysis of children’s photographic narratives reveals that children use their photographs to visualize, describe and interpret what and who caused the suffering. Applying the social identity theory framework, the findings suggest that children identify with their ingroup and differentiate themselves from the outgroup in their photographic narratives. In interpreting the experience of suffering, children de-individualize the suffering bodies, creating a singular Vietnamese experience of suffering and collective identity. The use of photo-elicitation with children is valuable for generating new insights into children’s interpretive and emotional experiences, which have important theoretical and methodological implications for future research in dark tourism.

Developing language teacher identity through photo‐elicitation in TESOL teacher education

AbstractThis feature article introduces the use of photo elicitation as a reflection technique for TESOL teacher education to explore the connection between emotions and language teacher identity (LTI). In current TESOL teacher education, there is limited knowledge about how to integrate the discussion of emotions and LTI into language teacher education courses and how to engage students in this discussion intentionally and effectively. To address this gap, the authors advocate for the use of an alternative approach—photo‐elicitation—to further enrich the reflection techniques that can be used to encourage teacher candidates to discuss and construct LTI through their emotional experiences. The article includes a series of tasks that can be used in TESOL teacher education courses to engage teacher candidates in reflecting upon their emotional experiences and making the connection to their LTI construction.

PHOTO ELICITATION: POTRAYING THE EXPERIENCE OF TOURIST HOLIDAYING IN BALI

As a social phenomenon, tourism is an activity that takes place in different cultural environment. This paper aims to explore tourism experience through the use of photo elicitation as a media for collecting data. The in-depth interviewed conducted using research participants own generated photographs that include aspects such as cultural, social and geographical. and the data emerged from tourist narratives as well as the images. Pictures captured by participants served as the baselined of interview process. Collaborative approach in which research participants portray the pictures and gives meaning to the experiences. The data analyse using qualitative approach and three themes resulted from the analysis; “portraying the sceneries”, “portraying the relationality”, “portraying the hazardous”. The initial two imply into the positive experiences, while the third theme indicates negative one. The findings in this research illustrated how the experience was highly influenced by the physical environment, natural setting of destinations as well as human interactions.

‘Amusing and Fun’, ‘Arresting’, or ‘The Wrong Pictures’? Methodological Lessons from Using Photo-Elicitation in a Study of Academic Retirement

This article reports on the use of photo-elicitation in a mixed methods study of academics’ later careers and retirement. Interviewees, who were either in their later career stage or retired from university work, were asked during the interviews to discuss the resonance that pre-selected images had with their understanding of retirement. Despite reluctance on some participants’ part to engage with the images, the majority took the opportunity to elaborate on themes of time, purpose, trajectories, hopes, and fears, rejecting images that they considered stereotypically negative. The argument is made that photo-elicitation’s pioneers have served subsequent users of the method well by being candid about its challenges as well as its potential and by encouraging creativity and flexibility in its application rather than presenting a set way to proceed. Because research does not always go according to plan, photo-elicitation’s potential for creative and flexible use recommends it to both novice and established practitioners, possibly as a complement to other methods in mixed methods projects.

A scoping review of the use of photo-elicitation and photovoice with autistic and neurodiverse people. Moving towards more inclusive research?

Photo-elicitation and photovoice are tools for gathering people’s points of view and would seem especially appropriate for use with individuals whose participation in research could be compromised by the dis/ability issues encountered with a more traditional research approach. This article presents the findings of a scoping review of recent initiatives (2006 and 2020) conducted with autistic and neurodiverse people for the purpose of determining the extent to which these methods can facilitate their participation in research and support their social inclusion. We used the PRISMA method and 33 articles were selected. The relevance and feasibility of these methods has been verified. Certain aspects must be considered in the research design and throughout the process to maximize accessibility. In short, the use of photo-elicitation and photovoice are not in themselves a guarantee of emancipatory research. Points of interest Photoelicitation or photovoice are methods that use visual aids (photo, video, graphic or multimedia works) to allow participants to illustrate through images their perception of a theme or a problem, its causes and its solutions. The use of innovative methods such as photoelicitation is particularly important for the inclusion of autistic and neurodiverse people in research. We conducted a review of research published between 2006 and 2020 that used these methods with autistic and neurodiverse participants. While these methods are relevant and feasible, other aspects must be considered to maximize inclusion and accessibility. The use of photo-elicitation and photovoice is not a guarantee of emancipatory research.

Marginalized engineering students' narrative construction through photo elicitation

PurposeThe goal of this study is to explore an immediate step in understanding the lived experiences of under-represented students through metaphor construction and possibly collect more in-depth data through photograph-based interviews.Design/Methodology/ApproachThis article introduced photo-elicitation based narrative interviews as a qualitative methodology while interviewing fourteen undergraduate community college students mostly from underrepresented groups (URGs). At the beginning of each interview, the authors probed the participants with 8 photographs chosen by the research team to represent a diverse set of experiences in engineering. The authors conducted a thematic analysis of the interview data.FindingsThe findings suggested that the inclusion of photo-elicitation often catalyzed consumption of representations, images, metaphors, and voice to stories passed unnoticed; and finally produces more detailed descriptions and complements semi-structured narrative interviews.Research Limitations/ImplicationsThis study advances the scholarship that extends photograph driven interviews/photo elicitation methodology while interviewing marginalized population and offers a roadmap for what a multi-modal, arts-based analysis process might look like for in-depth interviews.Practical ImplicationsThe use of photo-elicitation in our research enabled a deeper, more poignant exploration of the URG students' experience of navigating engineering. The participants were able to relate to the photographs and shared their life narratives through them; hence, use of photographs can be adapted in future research.Social ImplicationsOur research revealed that PEI has excellent potential to capture marginalized narratives of URGs, which is not well explored in educational research, specially, in higher education. In our research, PEI promoted more culturally inclusive approaches positioning the participants as experts of their own narratives.Originality/ValueThe study presented in this paper serves as an example of qualitative research that expands methodological boundaries and centers the role of power, marginalization, and creativity in research. This work serves as a unique and important contribution to the photo-elicitation literature, offering a critical roadmap for researchers who are drawn to photo elicitation/photograph driven interviews as a method to explore their inquiry.

Exploring the use of photo-elicitation as an alternative lens for evaluating young people's views and experiences with widening participation

This article explores the potential of an arts-based, participatory method called photo-elicitation (PE) as a tool for evaluating widening participation (WP) initiatives with young people. Though past studies have highlighted the potential of PE for evaluating WP interventions to date, it has rarely been used for such purposes and there is limited guidance available on how to employ this approach, which can prevent others in the field from using it. This paper provides such guidance, presenting an example project to illustrate how a PE approach was used to evaluate a pre-16 WP programme. Specifically, the example project involved using an 'auto-driven' PE method, whereby school pupils took photographs of their views/experiences before and after taking part in the WP programme, which were then explored via semi-structured interviews. The article discusses practical and ethical challenges that may arise when using PE, but also the deep and meaningful insights that may be gained by enabling young people to articulate themselves in different ways. As methods are sought to evaluate WP activities in the post-pandemic world, arts-based methods, such as PE, could allow for a more nuanced understanding of young people's views, which can be achieved whil e supporting students remotely.

Ask us! Adjusting experience-based codesign to be responsive to people with intellectual disabilities, serious mental illness or older persons receiving support with independent living.

Experience-based codesign (EBCD) is a valuable tool for participatory quality improvement. However, the EBCD process needs to be adjusted to make it suitable for long-term care. The focus of the improvement process needs to shift to the care relationship, as this is an important part of the quality of care in these settings. Furthermore, the EBCD process needs to be made more accessible to vulnerable populations. Through a participatory research approach, EBCD was adjusted to long-term care. The research was conducted in two care organisations: one supporting people with serious mental illness and intellectual disabilities in independent living and one providing homecare services for older persons. The participatory research resulted in the development of 'Ask us!'-a method for critical reflective codesign. The research furthermore provided valuable lessons for participatory projects with vulnerable clients. A common problem with participatory research in long-term care is ensuring the involvement of clients and informal carers. We report on various strategies developed to include experiences of a diverse set of services users, such as combining interviews with participant observation, photo-voice and involving experts-by-experiences as co-ethnographers. In close collaboration with an inclusive theatre company, these experiences were translated into 42 short videos on complex situations in the care relationship from the perspective of clients, professionalsor informal carers. These videos instigate critical reflection and accelerate the participatory quality improvement process. Moreover, practical tools were developed to overcome barriers regarding the involvement of people with disabilities. These include the use of photo-elicitation to enable participation of clients with disabilities in heterogeneous group discussions and involving experts-by-experience as proxies to share experiences of clients for whom participation in the 'Ask us' method remains inaccessible. The result of a robust participatory process, 'Ask us!' is a promising method for participatory quality improvement in long-term care. The research furthermore generated lessons for involving vulnerable populations in participatory research and codesign. Clients were involved as informants, sharing their experiences with the care relationship in interviews, photovoice and observations. They were also involved as consultants, helping to analyse input for the film scripts during data validation sessions.

Can you picture it? Photo elicitation in qualitative cardiovascular health research

Photo elicitation offers novel opportunities to augment the qualitative research toolbox. The use of photographs can enrich connections with participants, and empower them to be creative and engaged to communicate their insights, priorities, and perspectives. There is growing evidence of the effective use of photo elicitation in health research, with emerging interest in the cardiovascular community. Careful study planning, including attention to equipment, participant training, photograph selection, data collection, and ethical consideration, is essential. Detailed reporting of the study design and rationale for use of photographs, conceptual thinking underpinnings, elicitation process, and analytical plan contribute to strengthening the methodological approach.

Navigating procedural ethics and ethics in practice in outdoor studies: an example from sail training

ABSTRACT Researching ethically is an institutional requirement and cornerstone of good everyday practice in conducting research, adopting a mindful consideration for participants and resisting the temptation to use methodological approaches which may exploit participants or their trust in the research process or researcher. In the context of outdoor studies and framed by Kantian ethical and moral principles, this paper describes the procedural ethics of Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) and how our own moral and ethical positioning influences the planning for the opportunities, dilemmas and challenges of fieldwork, shaping the ethics in practice during research and in post-study reporting. From a sail training study, I describe the ethical and methodological dilemmas and the decisions made in respect of audio recording and the use of photo-elicitation; and the sense of uncertainty and unease stimulated by reflective and reflexive practice.

The use of photo elicitation for understanding the complexity of teaching: a methodological contribution

ABSTRACT Educational research results on teachers and teaching are often criticized due to the lack of connection between knowledge production in academic settings and the reality of teachers’ work. One of the main critiques of research is the lack of methodological options to address the complexity of teaching. In fact, research results have often been considered to be decontextualized and far removed from teachers’ every day practices. Based on a study of teacher quality in La Araucanía, this paper is a methodological reflection on the use of Visual Research Methods, particularly photo elicitation, as a method to address the complexity of teaching. Hereby, I explore three contributions from using photo elicitation in research on teachers and teaching: First, the use of pictures provides rich descriptions of teachers’ context of practice. Second, the use of pictures helps to understand better what teachers mean and interpret. Third, it allows researchers and participants to negotiate the interpretations of pictures, by contrasting participants’ views viz-à-viz researchers’ perceptions about the contexts where teachers develop their practice.

Use of Photo Elicitation Within Phenomenology: Depicting Lived Experience of Older Learners in an AFU

While the use of photographs is an emerging data generation method within phenomenology (Plunkett, Leipert & Ray, 2013; Shulze, 2007), research that incorporates photo elicitation to inform the understanding of the lived experience is limited. This presentation will describe the use of photo elicitation within a phenomenological approach to explore the lived experience of older learners in higher education. After an initial interview, six participants aged 50 years and older shared photographs that that they chose to depict experiences of being student at a regional comprehensive university in the Midwest. Photographs served as mode for participant reflection of their experiences and guided a second interview. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (Smith et al., 2009) with photographs and verbatim transcripts ensued and resulting findings included: complicated sense of belonging and community development and access. Implications for use and analysis of photographs within qualitative research will be discussed.

The Use of Photo Elicitation to Explore the Impact of Social Work Student’s Perceptions of Placements on Social Work Tutors and Consider Their Role in Practice Learning

The importance of learning in practice is acknowledged across health and social care professions. Social work students’ experiences in practice settings has attracted some attention in academic literature, and the role and impact of the Practice Educator (PE) on student learning is increasingly recognised. However, there is a paucity of research examining the role of the social work tutor generally and particularly within practice learning settings. This paper presents a small-scale qualitative study exploring the impact of visual images produced by social work students reflecting their practice experiences on six social work tutors. Photo elicitation prompted discussion in a focus group setting which was subsequently thematically analysed, with four themes emerging. These were dichotomous relationships, difference and diversity, tutor brokerage skills, and student support. The images encouraged tutors to reflect upon the complexity of their relationship with social work students and question whether they were professionally equipped to support students in complex placement situations. In addition, the effectiveness of the curriculum in preparing social work students for practice was considered, particularly space afforded to students to reflect on practice learning in a safe environment. Opportunities to support SW tutors in their role and SW students in practice are deliberated.

Photovoice in a Vietnamese Immigrant Family: Untold Partial Stories behind the Pictures

This paper, in the form of walking meditation, sitting, drinking, eating, and traveling among spaces and times, witnesses how the author as a Vietnamese immigrant child living in the United States (U.S.) traces untold stories of their family through family photos. Further, this paper attempts to find, understand and connect the relation between personal and political, between individual and collective, for a Vietnamese re-education camp detainee and his family, situated in political, historical, and cultural context. The use of photo elicitation comes from the desire that the reader can engage with the voices of the family members as they describe events in their past history. In addition, this paper refuses the forms of “category” and “fixed results” in writing up academic research. Rather, it will appear in the form of daily conversation, collected from multiple settings. Simply speaking, this paper is a form of storytelling that invites the readers to oscillate, communicate and think with the author’s family members on this historical journey.

Understanding community perceptions of an urban stream before and after a discussion of revitalization possibilities using photo-elicitation

Understanding local community perceptions is an important first step in seeking ways to revitalize degraded urban streams. This research sought to understand community perceptions of the highly modified Parnamirim stream in the city of Recife, Brazil and to solicit perspectives on potential for revitalization of the stream before and after discussion of such possibilities using a photo-elicitation-based approach. Structured interviews were conducted with 167 residents situated close to the stream using three photographs of urban streams in various stages of modification and revitalization to prompt responses regarding preferences and opportunities for stream revitalization. While a majority of respondents overall indicated that the Parnamirim stream currently looks like a degraded stream (as depicted in one photograph), these perceptions generally matched the characteristics of the stream in their particular area of residence, indicating that people’s perceptions are influenced by the quality of their immediate environment. However, after the brief discussion of urban stream revitalization practices, there was overall positive response for Parnamirim stream to become like the photograph of the revitalized stream shown to participants. Our findings point to the power and utility of the photo-elicitation method in terms of provoking emotional and cognitive responses to local environmental conditions and in promoting changed community perceptions of possible Parnamirim stream revitalization and its future potential. The potential for social desirability bias to influence community perceptions is acknowledged regarding the post-discussion preferences and comments regarding the potential for revitalization of Parnamirim stream. Nevertheless, the research demonstrates the value of engagement in discussion and ideas sharing with community members through the use of photo-elicitation and such approaches may represent an important first step in realizing urban stream revitalization.

Use of Photo-elicitation to evoke and solve Dilemmas that prompt changes Primary School Teachers’ visions

The present article investigates the potentialities of photo-elicitation as a technique in teacher professional development. This study analyses the process of eliciting dilemmas in four primary teachers, whose solution has proved to contribute to the teachers’ education. To this end, the effect of different types of external observers’ intervention in dilemma generation, participating in sessions developed with a specific photo-elicitation procedure, is explored. The knowledge pursued in order to meet the study objectives concerned inconsistencies between goals and practices and teachers’ dilemmas. These inconsistencies and dilemmas are tacit and with multiple possible interpretations, and are therefore not measurable. They consequently require an interpretative research approach using a qualitative method of inquiry based on collective case studies. The results show that the inconsistencies introduced to the teachers, by questioning their teaching practice, are enough but not necessary to pose professional dilemmas. Solving these dilemmas led the teachers to change their conceptual and processual beliefs, as well as their teaching activities.

Familia y religión en Buenos Aires: el análisis reticular en una investigación cualitativa con foto elicitación

El artículo aborda el estudio de la socialización religiosa en familias de diferentes credos en Buenos Aires con metodología cualitativa; se focaliza en dos aspectos relacionados con las imágenes utilizadas durante la investigación: la recolección de datos con la técnica de la foto-elicitación y el análisis reticular de coincidencias de dichas fotografías. El concepto de memoria atraviesa la investigación donde la reconstrucción del pasado en común implica un sentido compartido del presente y puede dar cuenta de la configuración del vínculo entre familia, tradición y religiosidad. Recordar implica una construcción y al mismo tiempo una legitimación del linaje. Las fotografías –en este caso– emergen como expresión de la identidad familiar que representan momentos de las trayectorias biográficas como puntos de referencia, permitiendo acceder a los recuerdos de sus miembros. El uso del análisis reticular de coincidencias aplicado al contenido de las fotografías establece presencias y ausencias entre los personajes con un análisis que complementa a los datos recolectados con las entrevistas. El análisis reticular de coincidencias permitió comprender lo que las imágenes revelan sobre las relaciones de parentesco, las afinidades y desigualdades al interior de la familia y a nivel generacional. Así, el texto se focaliza en el uso de la foto-elicitación y el análisis reticular, que pueden constituir un aporte metodológico al estudio del fenómeno religioso.

Photography in the planning of health interventions for the elderly.

To analyze potentialities of the use of photo-elicitation technique as a tool of access to the real needs of the beneficiaries of the intervention of health professionals. For this purpose, the aspects of their quality of life that they considered more relevant were identified with an elderly group. It is a qualitative investigation in which the discourse of the elderly on the changes to their quality of life is encouraged through the use of photographic images. Based on the data obtained, it was possible to identify the aspects of quality of life considered more relevant by the elderly, allowing, therefore, to sustain a later intervention adjusted to the needs and expectations of the elderly. The use of photo-elicitation allowed verifying its potentialities as a strategy to collect significant and relevant information for the planning of interventions in the Health area.