Graphical Vignettes for Studying Sensitive Issues
What can you do when existing methods don’t fit the study?
Daria Khanolainen is a PhD student at the European Training Network Neo-PRISM-C. in the Department of Teacher Education at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. She developed an innovative approach for studying school bullying behaviors with children. She created an elicitation technique that built on the popularity of comics and graphic books. In this interview, she walks us through the method used with schoolchildren in Switzerland and Russia. Learn more by reading this open-access article about the study:
Khanolainen, D., & Semenova, E. (2020). School Bullying Through Graphic Vignettes: Developing a New Arts-Based Method to Study a Sensitive Topic. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 19. https://doi.org/10.1177/1609406920922765
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The baby crying next door. Chaotic street life that permeates the apartment. Music. The tone of voices in the interview recording. Whether intentional or not, sometimes important data can be heard. How do we analyze and interpret aural data? These open-access articles offer some examples.