Building Capacity in Visual Research

Start date: 1 October 2006
End date: 30 September 2009
Funder: Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
Value: £79,000
Primary investigator: Jon Prosser
Co-investigators: Professor Ruth Holliday
External co-investigators: Professor Gill Valentine, University of Sheffield David Gauntlet

There are good reasons why ‘seeing’ research is gaining in importance. Visual research slows down and focuses observation and encourages reflection on how visual material is perceived. Researchers have always observed and rapidly, maybe too rapidly, converted those observations into sketches, diagrams, signs, words, codes and numbers. However, with rapid growth in the field during the 1980s, came fundamental divergence and different ways of conducting visual studies were held up as ‘the only way’.

Publications and outputs

Fashioning the Queer Self

Filming “The Closet”: The Role of Video Diaries in Researching Sexualities - Ruth Holliday, 2004

Reprinted in Visual Research Methods | SAGE Publications Ltd