CCRI Seminar: Unanticipated voices? Reflections from our ongoing ‘adventures’ with participant-authored photography, interviewing and interpretative phenomenology In this seminar, Dr Iain Williamson will reflect on the evolving practice of using participant-authored photography alongside in-depth interviews within interpretative phenomenological research. Drawing on multiple studies integrating health, disability, gender, and sexuality, the presentation will explore how visual data, particularly participant-generated images, can deepen insight into lived experience, while also introducing complex ethical, methodological, and relational challenges.This seminar will focus on the “visual voice” from phenomenological encounters. The talk will unpack five metaphorical categories, overheard, muted, recycled, contested, and amplified voices, to examine how different dynamics emerge in the co-construction of meaning between researchers and participants. We welcome researchers, students, and practitioners interested in or engaged in qualitative, participatory, or visual methodologies, as well as those curious about innovative and ethically grounded approaches to meaning making in mental health and social research. Speaker Bio: Dr Iain Williamson is Associate Professor of Applied Psychology at De Montfort University, Leicester. He has many years of experience in undertaking qualitative research and in teaching critical health psychology and supervising and assessing postgraduate students. He has carried out research in partnership with members of a number of communities experiencing social injustice and stigma, including young offenders, LGBT communities and members of minority faith and ethnic communities, and much of his recent work has focused on the intersection of inequality, incorporating theories around syndemics and compound discrimination. He has advocated the utilisation of a varied palette of multiple qualitative methods in various fora and has a particular interest in audio-diaries and visual methods. He has published in a variety of journals, including Journal of Health Psychology, Qualitative Research in Psychology, Social Science and Medicine and Psychology and Health. Tags 2025 Feb 03 2026 16.30 - 17.45 CCRI Seminar: Unanticipated voices? Reflections from our ongoing ‘adventures’ with participant-authored photography, interviewing and interpretative phenomenology CCRI Seminar, presented by Dr Iain Williamson on Tuesday 3 February: 'Unanticipated voices? Reflections from our ongoing ‘adventures’ with participant-authored photography, interviewing and interpretative phenomenology' Join us via the Zoom link below, using the following meeting ID and passcode: Meeting ID: 864 8365 8963 Passcode: 5ZCM8y Zoom Meeting Link
CCRI Seminar: Unanticipated voices? Reflections from our ongoing ‘adventures’ with participant-authored photography, interviewing and interpretative phenomenology In this seminar, Dr Iain Williamson will reflect on the evolving practice of using participant-authored photography alongside in-depth interviews within interpretative phenomenological research. Drawing on multiple studies integrating health, disability, gender, and sexuality, the presentation will explore how visual data, particularly participant-generated images, can deepen insight into lived experience, while also introducing complex ethical, methodological, and relational challenges.This seminar will focus on the “visual voice” from phenomenological encounters. The talk will unpack five metaphorical categories, overheard, muted, recycled, contested, and amplified voices, to examine how different dynamics emerge in the co-construction of meaning between researchers and participants. We welcome researchers, students, and practitioners interested in or engaged in qualitative, participatory, or visual methodologies, as well as those curious about innovative and ethically grounded approaches to meaning making in mental health and social research. Speaker Bio: Dr Iain Williamson is Associate Professor of Applied Psychology at De Montfort University, Leicester. He has many years of experience in undertaking qualitative research and in teaching critical health psychology and supervising and assessing postgraduate students. He has carried out research in partnership with members of a number of communities experiencing social injustice and stigma, including young offenders, LGBT communities and members of minority faith and ethnic communities, and much of his recent work has focused on the intersection of inequality, incorporating theories around syndemics and compound discrimination. He has advocated the utilisation of a varied palette of multiple qualitative methods in various fora and has a particular interest in audio-diaries and visual methods. He has published in a variety of journals, including Journal of Health Psychology, Qualitative Research in Psychology, Social Science and Medicine and Psychology and Health. Tags 2025 Feb 03 2026 16.30 - 17.45 CCRI Seminar: Unanticipated voices? Reflections from our ongoing ‘adventures’ with participant-authored photography, interviewing and interpretative phenomenology CCRI Seminar, presented by Dr Iain Williamson on Tuesday 3 February: 'Unanticipated voices? Reflections from our ongoing ‘adventures’ with participant-authored photography, interviewing and interpretative phenomenology' Join us via the Zoom link below, using the following meeting ID and passcode: Meeting ID: 864 8365 8963 Passcode: 5ZCM8y Zoom Meeting Link
Feb 03 2026 16.30 - 17.45 CCRI Seminar: Unanticipated voices? Reflections from our ongoing ‘adventures’ with participant-authored photography, interviewing and interpretative phenomenology CCRI Seminar, presented by Dr Iain Williamson on Tuesday 3 February: 'Unanticipated voices? Reflections from our ongoing ‘adventures’ with participant-authored photography, interviewing and interpretative phenomenology'
