The second, thoroughly revised and expanded, edition of The SAGE Handbook of Visual Research Methods presents a wide-ranging exploration and overview of visual research methods today, aiming to exemplify diversity and contradictions in perspectives and techniques.
Luc Pauwels, PhD, is Professor of Visual Research Methods in the Faculty of Social Sciences, Founder and Director of the Visual & Digital Cultures Research Center (ViDi) at the University of Antwerp, and Vice President of Research of RC57 "Visual Sociology" of the International Sociological Association (ISA). As a visual sociologist and communication scientist, he published widely on visual research methodologies, visual ethics, family photography, website analysis, anthropological filmmaking, visual corporate culture, urban culture, and scientific visualization. Books include
Visual Cultures of Science (UPNE, 2006),
The SAGE Handbook of Visual Research Methods (2011, together with Eric Margolis), and a monograph with Cambridge University Press:
Reframing Visual Social Science. Towards a More Visual Sociology and Anthropology, 2015.
Dawn Mannay is a Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences (Psychology) at Cardiff University. Her research interests revolve around class, education, families, identity, and inequality. Dawn employs participatory and visual methods in her work with communities, and she has facilitated a number of international creative methods workshops. Dawn was the principal investigator on a study exploring the education of care-experienced children and young people, and she is currently involved in a project for the Welsh Government, facilitating the online community of practice--ExChange: Care and Education. Dawn edited a collection for the University Wales Press,
Our Changing Land: Revisiting Gender, Class and Identity in Contemporary Wales (2016) and wrote the sole authored text for Routledge,
Visual, Narrative and Creative Research Methods: Application, Reflection and Ethics (2016). Her most recent work,
Emotion and the Researcher: Sites, Subjectivities and Relationships, coedited with Dr. Tracey Loughran, was published by Emerald in 2018.