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001 BP: USING PHOTOGRAPHY IN PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN THE CONTEXT OF CHRONIC ILLNESS AND DISABILITY: A REFLECTIVE OVERVIEW
As qualitative health researchers are increasingly recognising the limitations of one-off interviews for accessing the ‘lifeworld’ of participants, and the taking and sharing of photographs to document aspects of day to day life has become a quotidian (but arguably mundane) habit for many, so resear...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5759439/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2017-016492.11 |
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author | Williamson, I Papaloukas, P Quincey, K Lond, B Akhtar, Y |
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description | As qualitative health researchers are increasingly recognising the limitations of one-off interviews for accessing the ‘lifeworld’ of participants, and the taking and sharing of photographs to document aspects of day to day life has become a quotidian (but arguably mundane) habit for many, so research integrating a photographic component is flourishing. In this presentation we reflect on our experiences of integrating participant-authored photographs with semi-structured interviews within an interpretative phenomenological approach. As critical health psychologists our focus has been on aiming to give an ‘authentic’ voice to individuals and communities who might be considered marginalised or hard-to-reach. Thus, we illustrate our arguments using examples from a series of recent research projects which have looked at LGBT people living with multiple sclerosis, men with breast cancer, mothers of daughters with Rett syndrome and partners of individuals with acquired brain injury. We discuss how participants found taking the photographs, the barriers some participants faced and how we tried to overcome these. We reflect on the nature of the photographs taken and discuss various strategies for integration with the interview component for synergistic results. We consider methodological, epistemological and ethical aspects with a particular focus on concerns around ‘methodolatry’. In the final part of the presentation we explore the challenges of interpretation using two examples – “gym bathroom” from the MS study, and “cloud” from the men with breast cancer study. We conclude with some thoughts about what collaboration should mean in relation to research using photography in this field of research activity. |
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spelling | pubmed-57594392018-01-12 001 BP: USING PHOTOGRAPHY IN PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN THE CONTEXT OF CHRONIC ILLNESS AND DISABILITY: A REFLECTIVE OVERVIEW Williamson, I Papaloukas, P Quincey, K Lond, B Akhtar, Y BMJ Open Ucl Qualitative Health Research Symposium 2017 As qualitative health researchers are increasingly recognising the limitations of one-off interviews for accessing the ‘lifeworld’ of participants, and the taking and sharing of photographs to document aspects of day to day life has become a quotidian (but arguably mundane) habit for many, so research integrating a photographic component is flourishing. In this presentation we reflect on our experiences of integrating participant-authored photographs with semi-structured interviews within an interpretative phenomenological approach. As critical health psychologists our focus has been on aiming to give an ‘authentic’ voice to individuals and communities who might be considered marginalised or hard-to-reach. Thus, we illustrate our arguments using examples from a series of recent research projects which have looked at LGBT people living with multiple sclerosis, men with breast cancer, mothers of daughters with Rett syndrome and partners of individuals with acquired brain injury. We discuss how participants found taking the photographs, the barriers some participants faced and how we tried to overcome these. We reflect on the nature of the photographs taken and discuss various strategies for integration with the interview component for synergistic results. We consider methodological, epistemological and ethical aspects with a particular focus on concerns around ‘methodolatry’. In the final part of the presentation we explore the challenges of interpretation using two examples – “gym bathroom” from the MS study, and “cloud” from the men with breast cancer study. We conclude with some thoughts about what collaboration should mean in relation to research using photography in this field of research activity. BMJ Publishing Group 2017-03-02 /pmc/articles/PMC5759439/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2017-016492.11 Text en Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://www.bmj.com/company/products-services/rights-and-licensing/ This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ |
spellingShingle | Ucl Qualitative Health Research Symposium 2017 Williamson, I Papaloukas, P Quincey, K Lond, B Akhtar, Y 001 BP: USING PHOTOGRAPHY IN PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN THE CONTEXT OF CHRONIC ILLNESS AND DISABILITY: A REFLECTIVE OVERVIEW |
title | 001 BP: USING PHOTOGRAPHY IN PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN THE CONTEXT OF CHRONIC ILLNESS AND DISABILITY: A REFLECTIVE OVERVIEW |
title_full | 001 BP: USING PHOTOGRAPHY IN PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN THE CONTEXT OF CHRONIC ILLNESS AND DISABILITY: A REFLECTIVE OVERVIEW |
title_fullStr | 001 BP: USING PHOTOGRAPHY IN PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN THE CONTEXT OF CHRONIC ILLNESS AND DISABILITY: A REFLECTIVE OVERVIEW |
title_full_unstemmed | 001 BP: USING PHOTOGRAPHY IN PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN THE CONTEXT OF CHRONIC ILLNESS AND DISABILITY: A REFLECTIVE OVERVIEW |
title_short | 001 BP: USING PHOTOGRAPHY IN PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN THE CONTEXT OF CHRONIC ILLNESS AND DISABILITY: A REFLECTIVE OVERVIEW |
title_sort | 001 bp: using photography in phenomenological research in the context of chronic illness and disability: a reflective overview |
topic | Ucl Qualitative Health Research Symposium 2017 |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5759439/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2017-016492.11 |
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