WRDTC Advanced Training Series 2015 - Interdisciplinary Visual Research Methods
Date:
01/09/2015 - 02/09/2015
Organised by:
White Rose Doctoral Training Centre
Presenter:
Dylan Yamada-Rice
Level:
Advanced (specialised prior knowledge)
Contact:
(+44) (0)114 222 8162 enquiries@wrdtc.ac.uk
Description:
This module will give students in depth training on 1) visual theories 2) visual methods of data collection 3) ethical issues 4) visual representation. Taking an explicitly cross-disciplinary approach, students will draw on thinking and methodologies from within social sciences, arts and humanities, and visual industries more widely, to think about the nature of the visual and its relationship to knowledge.
On the first morning, students will be introduced to the question ‘What is the visual?’ by looking at this from different disciplinary starting points. They will understand the visual a socially, culturally and historically constructed, while exploring the importance of the visual in contemporary times.
Through a range of parallel session, students will then select options to be introduced to a range of visual approaches to collecting and analysing data. We will also critically and intensively consider ethical issue of the visual mode in relation to what can be learnt from everyday practices. Throughout these sessions, the emphasis will be on critical thinking, on embracing multiple ways of knowing and on hands on learning both inside and outside the ICOSS building.
Target audience & any previous experience required
This module draws on significant cross disciplinary expertise at University of Sheffield and beyond to provide students with cutting edge training in the visual within social science research. Whilst visual methods have proliferated across research in a number of disciplines in recent years, there has been little integration between disciplines and between epistemological positions. In this advanced training, students will be invited to engage theoretically and conceptually with what it means to visualise knowledge, or to generate ways of knowing using non language based methods. In addition, this course will connect academic visual research methods with conceptualisation of the visual in visual industries. Yamada-Rice’s forthcoming book ‘Alternate Visions’ makes a significant contribution to this novel and emerging field. As such, this training goes beyond merely a ‘how to’ approach to different kinds of visual data collection or dissemination methods, but challenges students to think across disciplines to generate and answer critical questions about the nature of the visual and of knowledge.
Cost:
Free to Social Sciences PhD students
Website and registration:
http://wrdtc.ac.uk/event/interdisciplinary-visual-research-methods/
Region:
Yorkshire and Humberside
Keywords:
Visual Methods
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