ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses one approach to the articulation of ‘voice’ within the participatory research process, and has two aims. The first is to help increase awareness of the methodological problems and possibilities of working with video and voice. The discussion highlights the power of the medium to influence the change process, while drawing attention to its equivalent potential to obstruct this process, through reference to one research project funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation involving young people excluded from school. The second aim is to problematise the use of video within the participatory research process. The chapter does this by looking critically at the notion of ‘voice’ and participation, and issues about who is listened to and what is listened to, through a discussion of what happened at the end of the project.
