Venturing into the visual voice: combining photos and interviews in phenomenological inquiry around marginalisation and chronic illness

Image and word on the street: a reflexive, phased approach to combining participatory visual methods and qualitative interviews to explore resilience with street connected young people in Guatemala City

“…The practice of sorting through photographs and drawings proved engaging. During this reflection and analysis, participants elaborated on favoured images, enhancing their status as experts on their own experiences (Papaloukas et al, 2017). Images presented in this paper are thus "anchored in participants' analytical narratives" (Papaloukas, 2017, p.12), and are inseparable from interview narratives that provide their context (Balmer et al, 2015;Papaloukas et al, 2017).…”

“…During this reflection and analysis, participants elaborated on favoured images, enhancing their status as experts on their own experiences (Papaloukas et al, 2017). Images presented in this paper are thus "anchored in participants' analytical narratives" (Papaloukas, 2017, p.12), and are inseparable from interview narratives that provide their context (Balmer et al, 2015;Papaloukas et al, 2017). This use of IPA acknowledges a process by which meaning is coproduced by participants and researchers, rather than being extracted from participants (Burton et al, 2017).…”

“…Further IPA was conducted with input from participants, utilising images they had produced (Burton et al, 2017, Papaloukas et al, 2017 for elicitation. As there are no universal guidelines for analyzing visual data in phenomenological psychology (Papaloukas et al, 2017), we devised a transparent strategy for incorporating participantgenerated images into analyses (Smith et al, 2009). This involved using images both as in-context data, and as aids for eliciting meanings during reflective interviews.…”

“…Images 'reveal aspects of coding, cognition and values that may be inhibited, not observable, or not analysable when the investigator is totally dependent on verbal exchange' (Worth & Adair, 1972, p. 278). Engaging with research participants through images facilitates access to imaginative and metaphorical, rather than merely textual, ways of knowing (Literat, 2013;Papaloukas et al, 2017). It also represents a response to challenges encountered by research participants whose language may be less well developed or different from that of the researcher, especially when talking about intimate issues (Alasuutari & Järvi, 2012).…”

Streets of resilience: Exploring the role of educational outreach projects with street connected young people in Guatemala City

“…Images are also used as interview elicitation tools to illustrate themes that have been identified from interview transcripts, but we are not explicitly using images as data for analysis. We acknowledge that subsequent work might employ a phenomenological analysis of images (Papaloukas, Quincey, & Williamson, ).…”