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Open research questions in Participatory Visual Research Methods

70 unresolved questions extracted from the limitations and future-work sections of 3,007 Participatory Visual Research Methods papers in our library. Each links back to the study that raised it.

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  • It is recommended that education on peace strategies be implemented for both children and adults in South Africa on a larger scale in the various provinces. For children, this will help them to grow up with a mindset and attitude that condemns and resists xenophobic violence. This can be achieved by hosting educational training sessions on television channels, and the Ministry of Education can incorporate these sessions into the Life Orientation modules offered in the South African curriculum. To further promote empathy and address violence, a community-based project with stakeholders from different fields, such as NGOs, religious organisations and political parties, can join forces and use interactive techniques like story circles, peace circles, art, and drama. Further, including parents and guardians in peace education workshops may further increase the impact of workshops outside of the classroom.

    Learning through Workshops: A Reflective Evaluation in Action Research · 2026 · DOI

  • Of course, this scarcity reflects the others: if time is scarce for the worker (because he d oes not have enough of it to exercise his own sovereignty), we must obviously conclude that scarcity of goods and producers has been transposed and converted into scarcity of time. O n the one hand, they are scarce; on the o ther hand, this particular product, for example, is a real and present being, which I produce, possess, consume, etc.

    Cybernetic portraits at the collision of program and problem · 2026 · DOI

  • Conclusion This study highlights the complex ways in which gender-creative children engage with and make sense of their social worlds. Through their drawings and narratives, participants contested normative gender binaries and articulated embodied experiences that are both imaginative and deeply reflective. The Draw-and-Tell Conversations method offered a Int J LGBTQ+ Youth Stud. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2026 April 15. A u t h o r M a n u s c r i p t A u t h o r M a n u s c r i p t A u t h o r M a n u s c r i p t A u t h o r M a n u s c r i p t Lenne et al. Page 18 participatory framework through which children could assert their autonomy and co- construct meaning. Their accounts further revealed an awareness of interpersonal and institutional dynamics, particularly within pediatric and social contexts. These findings underscore the importance of treating gender-creative children as knowledgeable social actors. For healthcare providers and caregivers alike, this necessitates an ongoing commitment to listening, affirming, and adapting in response to children’s evolving identities and needs.

    “ <i>I know who I am</i> ”: Gender-creative children Draw-and-Tell their social and healthcare experiences · 2026 · DOI

  • (Discobunny, professionals’ group 2) This study has also opened up new research questions, such as, how can listening together to the environment support listening to each other? One limitation to further investigate is the difficulties of engaging with specific neighbourhood changes through listening for participants with less knowledge of an area or proximity to the topic.

    Reaching out through listening · 2026 · DOI

  • Photovoice—a qualitative, arts-based methodological framework and photo elicitation–to connect the power of photography with social action (Wang, 1997).

    Strategies to Co-Create Participatory Dissemination · 2026 · DOI

  • Responding to this gap in the literature, we conducted research with a naturally occurring group of sixteen young adults, between the ages of 18 and 34, living in an under-resourced Eastern Cape township.

    Waithood, Music, Fakes, and Well-Being: Exploring the Mobile Lives of South African Township Youth Through the Mobile Diary Method · 2025 · DOI

  • PURPOSE: The wellness experiences and needs of older youth impacted by foster care (YIFC), particularly in the area of spirituality, are an understudied area despite the large amount of scholarship addressing the outcomes of this population.

    From Crosses to Crystals: The Use of Diverse Spiritual Practices by Youth Impacted by Foster Care to Support Wellness · 2025 · DOI

  • Abstract Purpose Childhood experiences of intimate partner violence (CEIPV) is common, but youth voices are underrepresented in such research, and little is known about what they find helpful in counselling.

    Integrating the Voices of Youth with Lived Experience as Co-researchers to Improve Research and Practice Approaches to Childhood Experiences of Intimate Partner Violence · 2023 · DOI

  • This article reports on a segment of a larger study on inclusion involving a virtual learning participatory workshop with six ECCE teachers and two ECCE teacher trainers that aimed to address a knowledge gap; ECCE research into gender is scarce in developing countries like South Africa.

    Challenging Gender Certainties in Early Childhood Care and Education: A Participatory Action Learning and Action Research Study · 2022 · DOI

  • The members of the United Islanders Civil Association 2 live in an area of the Lower Paraná River Delta, which is only 80 km away from Buenos Aires city but whose social needs are little known.

    Bonding, Bridging, and Linking Social Capital in a Community Association: Three Dimensions of an Applied Project in Argentina · 2022 · DOI

  • Although there is extensive literature that describes the problem, mainly from the students' perspectives, what remains understudied is the role of instructors, their perception of the current issues, and what they imagine they can do to address campus-based SGBV, particularly in rural settings.

    Narrative Imagination and Social Change: Instructors in Agricultural Colleges in Ethiopia Address Sexual and Gender-Based Violence · 2021 · DOI

  • For ethnographers, the establishment and maintenance of ethnographic relationships in pandemic contexts restricted to virtual interactions has not been thoroughly explored, leaving those trained in recruitment, rapport-building, and field engagement with fewer resources to navigate this integral topic.

    Digitally shaped ethnographic relationships during a global pandemic and beyond · 2021 · DOI

  • Redressing this gap in the literature, this methodological paper explicates how four multisensory research methods commonly used in architecture—sketch walks, photography, spatial visualization, and mapping—can be used in social work research to create a greater understanding of the complex, interconnected, and multidimensional nature of built environments in relationship to human experience.

    Enriching social work research through architectural multisensory methods: Strategies for connecting the built environment and human experience · 2020 · DOI

  • For instance, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences says the following with regard to its fellows selection process: “If there is no consensus among the external advisors, the Scholarship Committee will either weigh up the arguments or ask for another external opinion” (2007, 17).

    Analytics of Organized Spontaneity: Rethinking Participant Selection, Interaction Format, and Milieu for Academic Forums · 2013 · DOI

  • I argue that despite developments in participatory approaches, participatory data analysis has been attempted less than participation in other aspects of research with either children or people with learning disabilities, and that the challenges involved in this are particularly under-explored and important with the latter where we need to investigate what is possible.

    Participatory data analysis: a step too far? · 2011 · DOI

  • Although techniques for collecting and using qualitative data have matured during several decades of use in the field of participatory planning and development, their effective incorporation into GIS remains elusive.

    Prospects for Qualitative GIS at the Intersection of Youth Development and Participatory Urban Planning · 2006 · DOI

  • This can then minimise the risk of outcomes that vary widely based on cluster partners’ priorities and set initiatives up to reach the most under-served beneficiaries.

    Futures in film: Community visions for film and television opportunities in Whitley, Reading, United Kingdom · 2026 · DOI

  • Grounded in the historical legacy of Rouleauville, the city’s former Francophone settlement, the project examines how contemporary residents negotiate belonging in a setting where Francophone presence is often underrecognized.

    Storytelling and Belonging: Building Visibility of Calgary’s Francophone Community · 2026 · DOI

  • Moving forward, the primary areas that need to be explored further lie in assessing the social impact of the Walk Through the Door script.

    Walk Through the Door · 2026 · DOI

  • While educational and learning interventions against ageism are considered promising, their effectiveness is not fully understood, and tailored approaches addressing specific manifestations of ageism like sexual (self-)ageism are lacking.

    Transforming sexual (self-)ageism: A tailored participatory action research approach for collaborative learning among older adults · 2025 · DOI

  • Abstract Though there has been a marked increase in research driven by posthumanist theory and inspired by the common worlds research approach, practical approaches to conducting this type of research have not been well documented and shared within the literature.

    Navigating Approaches to “Thinking With”: A Discussion of the Practicalities of Posthuman Research Involving Young Children · 2024 · DOI

  • Although social media platforms with visual and audio storytelling features can provide rich qualitative data that offers deep insight into forms of outdoor experiential education, particularly for college-aged participants, few studies have investigated its potential in this field.

    The 360 diary method in experiential education: using social media as a complementary method to interviews and audio diaries · 2024 · DOI

  • We found videography to be a powerful tool for synthesizing local knowledge of shifting social and ecological conditions, especially where written records are scarce.

    Participatory video as a tool for co-management in coastal communities: a case study from Madagascar · 2023 · DOI

  • Although the extant literature identifies photovoice as one of the most innovative and creative research methods that encourage reflection and introspection, few studies have described the use of photovoice with family/informal caregivers.

    Using Photovoice as a Method for Capturing the Lived Experiences of Caregivers During COVID-19: A Methodological Insight · 2022 · DOI

  • Despite important efforts by postcolonial scholars to “decolonize” sociology, this endeavor remains limited by the scaffolding of empirical research, or the institutionalized practices and beliefs embedded within data collection and researchers' relationship to research subjects.

    Decolonizing Sociology Through Collaboration, Co‐Learning and Action: A Case for Participatory Action Research<sup>1</sup> · 2022 · DOI

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