PhD Courses in Denmark

Welcome to Visual methods

Description:
This four-day course introduces different perspectives and techniques in visual methods. It provides practical guidance for visual data collection, analysis and dissemination, which includes such techniques as working with various visual props, annotated drawings, photo-elicitation, using first- and third-person video, among others. There will also be focused discussions of and feedback on students’ research projects, in relation to visual methods. The course as a whole makes the general argument that visual material can be used both as a powerful complement to traditional verbal and textual data, as well as a site of investigation in its own right. 
 

Teaching methods:

A combination of lectures, panel discussions, group work, practical exercises, small group discussions and urban walks. 

Organizer:
Brady Wagoner

Lecturers:

Brady Wagoner
Caroline Demuth
Sarah Awad
Nicole Milman-Doerr

Programme outline:

Day 1. Introduction and photo-elicitation

10.00-12.00 Introduction and overview of visual methods-- Brady Wagoner and Sarah H. Awad

12.00-13.00 Lunch

13:00-15:00 The social life of images, including photo elicitation techniques – Sarah H. Awad

15:00-15:30 Coffee break

15:00-17:00 Photo-elicitation techniques exercises — Sarah H. Awad and Brady Wagoner

Day 2. Visual sociology and mental maps

9.30-12:30 Lecture on the use of visuals in sociology illustrated with a case study on gender and social movements—Nicole Milman-Doerr

12:30-13:30 Lunch

13:30-15:00 Mental maps, including exercises--Brady Wagoner

15:00-15:30 Coffee break

15:30-17:00 Discussion of student projects

Day 3. Using and analyzing third-person video

9.30-12:00 Lecture on multimodal analysis of video material--Carolin Demuth

12:00-13:00 Lunch

13:00-14:30 Further discussion and exercises analyzing videos--Carolin Demuth

14:30-15:00 Coffee break

15:00-17:00 Discussion of student projects

Day 4. Using and analyzing first-person video, with the subjective camera methodology

9.30-12:00 Lecture on subjective camera technology—Brady Wagoner

12:00-13:00 Lunch

13:00-15:00 Discussion of student projects

ECTS:
4

Time:
September 15-18, 2025

Place:

Nordkraft, Aalborg

Zip code:
9000

City:
Aalborg

Number of seats:
20

Deadline:
25 August 2025
 

Key literature:

Day 1

Awad, S. H. & Wagoner, B. (2018). Image Politics of the Arab Uprisings. In Wagoner, B., Moghaddam, F. & Valsiner, J. (Eds). The Psychology of Radical Social Change: From Rage to Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [20 pp]

Awad, S. (2025). Seeing Matters: A psychology of the image and its politics. Cambridge University Press. Ch. 2 & 3. [45 pp]

Radley, A. (2010). What people do with pictures, Visual Studies, 25, 267-279 [22 pp]

Reavey, P. (2021). Handbook of Visual methods in psychology. New York: Psychology Press (incl. ch. 1, 2, 4, 7, 22, 28, 32) [235 pp]

Rose, G. (2008) Visual Methodologies. London: Routledge (Chapter 1) [32 pp] 

Day 2

Nicole Doerr (2024) Digital Images Translating Climate Justice Online to inspire Ecological Visions of World Order from the Margins, Global Studies Quarterly, Volume 4, Issue 3, July 2024, ksae073, Open access https://doi.org/10.1093/isagsq/ksae073

Nicole Doerr, and Eva Svatonova (2023). “Despised, Feared, Emphasised or Hegemonic—Far Right Digital Images of Womanhood on US Telegram Channels” European Journal of Politics and Gender. https://doi.org/10.1332/25151088Y2023D000000001 PDF attached

Doerr, Nicole, and María Florencia Langa 2024, 'Images of Nature in Online Climate Activism in Germany and Argentina: Science, Affect and Non-Human ‘Everybodies’', Journal for Development Studies, 39, 3-4, 33-64. Open access:https://mattersburgerkreis.at/site/de/shop/jepartikel/shop.item/2085.html

Day 3

Demuth, C. (2012). Video-based Discourse and Conversation Analysis in Cultural Developmental Psychology: Mother-Infant Interactions in Kikaikelaki, Cameroon and Muenster, Germany. In: Karin Schweizer, Tanja Schielein, Mechthild Kiegelmann, Tiberio Feliz, & Guenter Huber (Eds). Qualitative Psychology Nexus, Vol. IX: Beyond text: Video and other Medium Use in Qualitative Research. Center for Qualitative Psychology, pp. 31-52. Available at: http://psydok.sulb.uni-saarland.de/volltexte/2012/3417/

Paasch, B. S. & Raudaskoski, P. L. (2018). Multimodal Interaktionsanalyse. In: Davidsen, J. & Kjær, M (eds.). Videoanalyse af social interaktion. p. 151-184, Samfundslitteratur

Raudaskoski, P. L. & Kjær, M. (2016). Interaktionsanalyse. In: Horsbøl, A. & Raudaskoski, P. (eds.). Diskurs og praksis: teori, metode og analyse. 1. ed, p. 111-134.. Samfundslitteratur (Metoder i samfundsvidenskab og humaniora; No. 1).

Wiggins, Sally (2017). Discursive Psychology. Theory, Method and Applications. London: Sage

Optional further readings:

Davidsen, J. & Krummheuer, A. (2018). Transkription af videodata. In: Malene Kjær and Jacob Davidsen (Eds.). Videoanalyse af social interaction, pp. 97-112, Samfundslitteratur

Demuth, C. (2018/2020) Videoanalysen. In: G. Mey & K. Mruck (Eds) Handbuch Qualitative Forschung in der Psychologie (2nd extended and revised edition), Heidelberg: Springer Reference Psychologie. https://meteor.springer.com/container/contribute.jsf?id=114469

Demuth, C. (2021). Managing Accountability of Children’s Bodily Conduct: Embodied Discursive Practices in Preschool. In: Sally Wiggins & Karin Osvaldsson Cromdal (eds). Discursive psychology and embodiment: Beyond subject-object binaries. Pp. 81-111, Palgrave Macmillan

Goodwin, C. (2000) Action and embodiment within situated human interaction. Journal of Pragmatics, 32: 1489-1522

Paasch, B. S. & Raudaskoski, P. L. (2018). Multimodal Interaktionsanalyse. In: Davidsen, J. & Kjær, M (eds.). Videoanalyse af social interaktion. p. 151-184, Samfundslitteratur

Raudaskoski, P. L. (2010) Observationsmetoder (herunder videoobservation). In S. Brinkmann & L. Tanggaard (eds.). Håndbog i de kvalitative metoder. København : Hans Reitzels Forlag: 81-96.

Day 4

*Wagoner, B. & Brescó, I., Herbig, L. (2022). Studying the stream of experience at memorial sites: The subjective camera methodology. In M. Watzlawik & S. Salden (Eds.), Courageous Methods in Cultural Psychology: Beyond the symbolic nature of language. New York: Springer.  [30 pp] 

Kusenbach, M. (2003). Street phenomenology. Ethnography, 4, 455-485. [30 pp] 

Lahlou, S. (2011). How can we capture the subject's perspective? An evidence-based approach for the social scientist. Social science information, 50(4), 607-655 [43 pp] 

Important information concerning PhD courses: 

There is a no-show fee of DKK 3,000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before the start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start of the course.

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