Together, We Can Show You: Using Participant-Generated Visual Data in Collaborative Research

Abstract

Participant-Generated Visual Data 27 developed personal history timelines that served as a starting point for interviews to explore research themes with deaf youth participants. Ginger A. Johnson's research in Cairo, Egypt, with Sudanese refugee women utilized images created through photovoice methodology for participatory analysis of their photos. Cecilia Vindrola-Padros prepared images created by child participants undergoing cancer treatment for use in the dissemination of research fi ndings among this population. This article highlights current trends in the use of visual methodologies in collaborative research and discusses potential limitations as they emerged within particular research contexts. The authors illustrate how each of their respective methods produced original visual data that served as a departure from, and complement to, verbally derived knowledge, and they suggest that these data generated collaborative results through multimodal communication.