Seminar Two
Seminar Two: Visual narratives in video and film
Date: Wednesday 16th June 2010
Venue: Lindop Building, University of Hertfordshire, College Lane, Hatfield
Theme: The aim of this seminar is to explore the capacity of video and film to capture the ways in which people live unequal lives, how inequalities are expressed and understood through these media and how they might productively inform policy making and welfare practices. Collectively, the papers will critically explore the capacity of researcher-generated and participatory video and film for:
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a more nuanced understanding of the lives of socially excluded and marginalised individuals and communities;
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advancing theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches for capturing and analysing ‘inequality’
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reflexively interrogating the ways in which visual data and research practices may be complicit in reinforcing, challenging or mediating inequalities.
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developing methods for working with communities and individuals to shape policy and practice
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transforming policy and practice and promoting social change.
PROGRAMME
9.45 – 10.15 Registration & refreshments
10.15 – 10.30 Welcome & introduction
Janet Fink, Helen Lomax, Gillian Rose and Lisa Whiting
10.30 –12.45 Researcher- generated approaches to inequalities
Chair: Dr Helen Lomax (University of Hertfordshire)
Speakers:
Professor Carey Jewitt (Institute of Education)
A multimodal approach to the production of 'ability' in the English classroom
Dr Chris Walton (University of Lancaster)
Locating inequalities in Services for adults with learning disabilities
Jude Fransman (Institute of Education)
Juggling genre: Using video to explore how ‘knowledge’ is fixed and framed in a
community-based research workshop
12.45 – 13.30 Lunch
13.30 – 15.00 Arts and participatory perspectives
Chair: Professor Gillian Rose (The Open University)
Speakers:
Miranda Sharp (Independent Artist)
Can art be used as research?
Dr Chris High (The Open University)
Where did PV come from?
15.00 – 15.15 Refreshments
15.15 – 17.15 Informing policy and practice through the visual
Chair: Dr Janet Fink (The Open University)
Speakers:
Dr Stephen Parkin (The University of Plymouth)
Using visual methods to record health inequality and social suffering amongst those
that inject illicit drugs in public settings: implications for policy and practice.
John Oates (The Open University)
Documentary Film as Advocacy
