ABSTRACT
This chapter explores visual methods – using, generating and disseminating images and artefacts as drawings, collages, diagrams, maps, still photographs, video, installations – within research, within creative learning and within ‘youth voice’ or participatory practices. New digital and web technologies mean, of course, that most of these visual methods are increasingly available, accessible and affordable. However, their increasing popularity is not determined by technology alone: it marks broader material, conceptual and social-political shifts that have directed attention to the visual, multiplied the contexts in which it is used, and brought about changes in what and how research questions are asked, in who creates visual material and how it is interpreted.
