Seminar one
Seminar one
ESRC SEMINAR SERIES: VISUAL DIALOGUES: NEW AGENDAS IN INEQUALITIES RESEARCH
SEMINAR ONE: Here’s Looking At You: Photographic Practices and Methods
DATE: Monday 25 January 2010
VENUE: Library Seminar Rooms 1 and 2 (9.45- 17.00) followed by informal drinks and exhibition, Berrill Foyer (17.30- 19.00), The Open University, Milton Keynes
This seminar will examine new and emerging theoretical perspectives, methodological approaches and interpretative processes in photography and explore their value and insights for inequalities research and its successful dissemination.
PROGRAMME
9.45 – 10.15 Registration & refreshments
10.20 –10.30 Welcome & introduction
Helen Lomax, Janet Fink, Gillian Rose, Richenda Gambles & Lisa Whiting
10.30 – 12.45 Working with historical, ‘found’ and archived images
Chair: Barbara Harrison (UEL)
Speakers:
Ian Grosvenor (Birmingham)
The School Album: images, insights and inequalities
Sheena Rolph (OU)
Image and ethics: photography in care homes for older people
Caroline Bressey (UCL)
Seeing colour in black and white
12.45 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 14.45 Visual cultures
Chair: John Clarke (OU)
Speaker: Rosalind Gill (Kings College)
"Objectification": what is it good for?
14.45 – 15.00 Refreshments
15.00 – 17.00 Working with contemporary images
Chair: Andrew Wilkins (OU)
Speakers:
Virginia Morrow (IOE)
Using visual methods to elicit young people’s perspectives on their environments: Some
ideas for community health initiatives
Alison Pointu (UH)
Through their eyes: the use of visual methods to capture the lived experience of ageing
Wendy Martin (Brunel)
The use of visual images to elicit insights into ageing bodies, ‘risk’ and everyday life
17.30 – 19.00 Informal drinks and exhibition, Berrill Foyer and Cafe:
‘Representing the spaces and places of social inequalities’
To include:
Angela Dickinson and Helen Masey (UH) Informal community food provision:
Enhancing the health and well-being of older people?
Fiona Brooks (UH) Digital storytelling in the classroom and children's well-being
Georgie Holden (OU) Ident:Indent
Gillian Rose (OU) Milton Keynes's shopping centres: inclusions and exclusions
Lisa Whiting (UH) Making children’s physical activity visible through participatory photography
Mel Jeavons, Living Archive http://www.livingarchive.org.uk/
Julia Johnson and Sheena Rolph (OU)
Revisiting The Last Refuge: the role of visual images in care homes for older people
Vicky Lamburn A photographic glance at Coffee Hall and its environs
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lilserenity/sets/72157618590943732/
Dawn Raybould, Milton Keynes LINk (Local Involvement Network)
19.00 Seminar close
Information:
The seminar will be held The Library Seminar Rooms, The Open University. Directions and other useful information can be found here: http://www3.open.ac.uk/contact/locations.aspx.
The Library Seminar Rooms are located on the second floor of the library which, is marked on the campus map http://www3.open.ac.uk/contact/maps/wh-campus.gif . It can be found on St Michael’s Drive on the left just past the main entrance and security lodge (off the University roundabout on Brickhill Street/ V10).
The Informal drinks and exhibition will be held at the Berrill Foyer and Cafe located at the main entrance of the Open University (see ‘Berrill Building’ on campus map).
Contact For further information contact: Dr. Helen Lomax This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
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