'You've been framed?' A Special TCRU/NOVELLA Seminar (fully booked)
Date:
22/05/2012
Organised by:
Institute of Education
Presenter:
Rachel Thomson.
Level:
Entry (no or almost no prior knowledge)
Contact:
Rowena Lamb: novella@ioe.ac.uk / 020 7612 6921.
Location:
View in Google Maps (WC1H 0AA)
Venue:
Library, Thomas Coram Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London, 27-28 Woburn Square, London
'You've been framed?' - visualising and viewing qualitative longitudinal research.The Inventing Adulthood study is a qualitative longitudinal project that followed a group of 100 young people growing up in 5 locations in the UK over a period of 10 years through the transition to adulthood. In 2005/6 some of the young people involved in the study were invited to become involved in a film project for the Open University, developed as part of a new course Youth: perspectives and practices (KE308). The film was a collaboration between researchers, film-makers and educators and faced the challenge of 'animating' a qualitative longitudinal study - including asking young people to listen to and respond to extracts of interview data collected with them over a period of years. In this presentation I share the film, exploring the slippery boundaries between primary and secondary data. The film reveals some of the challenges associated with the 'display' of QL data and the ways in which such displays are recursively folded into the data record. Focussing on one particular case study I consider the power of visual methods and consider whether techniques drawn from media and cultural studies could enrich our ethical and analytic vocabularly for making sense of these kinds of texts.Rachel Thomson is Professor of Childhood and Youth Studies in the School of Education and Social Work at Sussex University. Between 2003 and 2011 she worked at the Open University developing multi-media distance learning materials in the area of childhood and youth studies. She has ongoing interest in methodologies for researching personal and socio-cultural change, reflected in her 2009 book (with McLeod) Researching Social Change: qualitative approaches, Sage.For more information on the Inventing Adulthoods study see www.lsbu.ac.uk/inventingadulthoods
Cost:
This event is free to attend, but places are limited so early booking is recommended.
Region:
Greater London
Keywords:
Longitudinal Research , Visual Methods, Narrative Methods
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