EUROQUAL
Conference on Qualitative Visual Data Analysis
The use of visual research methods has become increasingly widespread throughout the social sciences. From their origins in disciplines like social anthropology and sociology, visual research methods are now firmly entrenched in major fields of inquiry, including sociology, health and nursing studies, educational research, criminology, human and cultural geography, media and cultural studies, discursive and social psychology, management and organization studies, political science and policy analysis.
The rapid development of information technology, facilitating the creation and editing of digitised data, and computer-based techniques for the storage and management of visual data, means that new methodological tools are being developed and are envisaged for the near future.
The Conference will bring together experienced, senior researchers from across Europe, together with a smaller number of scholars from North America and elsewhere, to share, develop and promote the high-level skills and analytic traditions that characterise the different disciplinary and national traditions studying visual data.
Secondly, it will have a capacity-building function, bringing together colleagues drawn from the different national constituencies, in order to disseminate the methods and to develop networks of researchers who are able to extend the methods in their own research, through research methods teaching, and through further networking. The overall vision for the programme is one of cascading expertise across boundaries and across generations of researchers.
The Conference will also include training sessions that will follow the conference. They will be organised as workshops where young researchers discuss and analyse data with leading scholars in the field.
