
Visual Methods for Research Engagement: Training Course
Lead: Gill Black
Co-Author: Mary Chambers (Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Saigon)
Contributing Authors: Alun Davies and Sonia Lewycka
Funders: Wellcome
Partners: The Global Health Network
About the course
This course was developed in response to growing global interest in research engagement and excitement about possibilities of visual methods. It was compiled by Gill Black and Mary Chambers, as an additional dimension of our Bucket Loads of Health project.
It provides guidelines on the practice and ethics of participatory visual methods (PVM) with emphasis on their use in low and middle-income countries for community and public engagement in health and health science. It was produced as part of the Mesh Community Engagement Network learning and training resources.
The course has been developed for use by engagement practitioners who are relatively new to the field of PVM and want to learn more about what they are and how to work with them. It is most fitting for those who already have some experience in facilitating participatory processes or in using qualitative research methods. The course also aims to support health science researchers who wish to include visual methods when engaging local communities and wider publics in their work.
In addition to providing general guidelines on planning and facilitating PVM processes, and product dissemination, the course covers a range of methods:
- art to stimulate engagement
- picture card games
- body mapping
- performing arts
- participatory photography
- personal digital storytelling
- participatory and collective film-making
- participatory photo postcard sets
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