Video for Qualitative Research

Speaker(s):

Lucy Meechan, Kings College London

Abstract:

Video offers unprecedented opportunities for social science researchers, facilitating detailed analysis of cultures, social organisations and forms of communication. This session will briefly introduce the ways in which film, and more recently video, have increasingly become part of field studies and ethnography. It will provide practical advice for those interested in using video as part of qualitative research; addressing problems that can emerge when undertaking video-based studies, and demonstrating how video recordings can be subjected to detailed scrutiny and analysis. Presenting a small selection of video data fragments, the session will demonstrate how video can provide distinctive ways of presenting observations and findings, which can be relevant to both academic and practitioner audiences,