Picturing What Really Matters: How ‘photo-story’ research can help make the personal, visible

Varvantakis, Christos; Nolas, Sevasti‐Melissa

doi:10.51428/tsr.mtsg8567

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“…Alongside further regular participant observation in youth work sessions, and interviews and focus groups with 40 young people, youth workers and managers, we were able to use methods that emerged from young people's needs and interests, and the rhythm of work in these organisations. This included a tour of a youth club; photograph and music elicitation, through the sharing and discussion of photographs and songs that relate to youth work (Levell 2021;Varvantakis and Nolas 2021); and a 'paper chatterbox' with questions selected and asked in collaboration with young people. This approach was akin to what Batsleer and Duggan (2021) have called 'youth work as method', drawing on principles of anti-oppressive youth work practice and youth participatory research to engage creatively and flexibly with young people and youth workers, in accordance with their wishes and interests.…”

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‘Capturing the magic': grassroots perspectives on evaluating open youth work

Croix

Doherty

2022

Journal of Youth Studies

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Youth work's informal and youth-centred nature raises challenges for evaluation, challenges that are intensified by the growing dominance of measurement, market values and surveillance in the context of the neoliberal restructuring of youth services. This article builds on Griffiths' (2012, Why Joy in Education Is an Issue for Socially Just Policies. Journal of Education Policy 27 (5): 655-670) philosophical argument for valuing the intrinsic contribution of education, thus conceptualising evaluation as encompassing more than measuring outcomes. It reports the findings of a threeyear qualitative study in eight open youth work settings in England that investigated the perspectives of 143 young people, youth workers and policy makers on evaluation in youth work. While young people and youth workers had often participated in evaluations they found meaningful, some approaches to impact measurement were experienced as too formal, intrusive, insensitive and burdensome. The article argues that evaluation and accountability processes must be practice-informed, youthcentred, and anti-oppressive. It recommends the participatory and collaborative development of diverse methods and approaches to evaluation that 'capture the magic' of youth work while enabling further reflection and development of practice.

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‘Capturing the magic': grassroots perspectives on evaluating open youth work

Croix

Doherty

2022

Journal of Youth Studies

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“…Photographs were analysed as visual data and also used to produce a series of short photo-story films. Participants shared their photos with the group at the start of the second workshop, with each person taking a turn at explaining what the photo meant to them, why they took it, what they were thinking and feeling at the time (Varvantakis & Nolas, 2021) and what it represented in the context of imagining a stigma-free world. Participants then had an opportunity to comment on one another's photographs and to write a 'story' on their own or someone else's photo.…”

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Epistemic injustice in experiences of young people with parents with mental health challenges

Yates,

Gladstone,

Foster

et al. 2023

Sociology Health & Illness

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Amongst the impacts of growing up with a parent with mental health challenges is the experience of stigma‐by‐association, in which children and young people experience impacts of stigmatisation due to their parent’s devalued identity. This article seeks to expand our understanding of this issue through an abductive analysis of qualitative data collected through a codesign process with young people. Results indicate that young people’s experiences of stigmatisation can be effectively understood as experiences of epistemic injustice. Participants expressed that their experiences comprised ‘more than’ stigma, and their responses suggest the centrality to their experiences of being diminished and dismissed in respect of their capacity to provide accurate accounts of their experiences of marginalisation and distress. Importantly, this diminishment stems not only from their status as children, and as children of parents with mental health challenges but operates through a range of stigmatised identities and devalued statuses, including their own mental health status, sexual minoritisation, disability and social class. Forms of epistemic injustice thus play out across the social and institutional settings they engage with. The psychological and social impacts of this injustice are explored, and the implications for our understanding of stigma around family mental health discussed.

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“…Towards the end of workshop 1, participants were invited to engage in a photo-story project. This method was incorporated at the suggestion of the research team as a creative, engaging, and accessible way for young people to express their thoughts, feelings, and experiences around the complex and evocative topic of stigma ( Varvantakis & Nolas, 2021 ). The young people consulted in the pre-design phase endorsed this.…”

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StigmaBeat: Collaborating With Rural Young People to Co-Design Films Aimed at Reducing Mental Health Stigma

Hine,

Gladstone,

Reupert

et al. 2023

Qual Health Res

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Little is known about the experience and impact of intersectional stigma experienced by rural young people (15–25 years) who have a parent with mental health challenges. The StigmaBeat project employed a co-design approach to create short films to identify and challenge mental health stigma from the perspective of young people who have experienced this phenomenon. The aim of this paper is to describe the co-design methodological approach used in StigmaBeat, as an example of a novel participatory project. We describe one way that co-design can be employed by researchers in collaboration with marginalised young people to produce films aimed at reducing mental health stigma in the community. Through describing the processes undertaken in this project, the opportunities, challenges, and tensions of combining community development methods with research methods will be explored. Co-design with young people is a dynamic and engaging method of collaborative research practice capable of harnessing lived experience expertise to intervene in social issues and redesign or redevelop health services and policies. The participatory approach involved trusting and implementing the suggestions of young people in designing and developing the films and involved creating the physical and social environment to enable this, including embedding creativity, a critical element to the project’s methodological success. Intensive time and resource investment are needed to engage a population that is often marginalised in relation to stigma discourse.

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Picturing What Really Matters: How ‘photo-story’ research can help make the personal, visible

Cited by 3 publications

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‘Capturing the magic': grassroots perspectives on evaluating open youth work

‘Capturing the magic': grassroots perspectives on evaluating open youth work

Epistemic injustice in experiences of young people with parents with mental health challenges

StigmaBeat: Collaborating With Rural Young People to Co-Design Films Aimed at Reducing Mental Health Stigma

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