Creative Methods Workshop: Using Photography as a Participatory Method

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Event details

  • Wednesday 5 March 2025 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm

Description

This event is for PGRs & ECRs.

In this session, will introduce us to participatory arts-based methodologies. Abril will reflect on her experience of using participatory photography (photovoice) in her doctoral research to study agency in migration. 

Throughout the workshop, you will:

  • discuss the potentials and challenges of photovoice as a participatory method for data collection
  • experiment with using photovoice and explore its potential for your work
  • learn how to analyse data generated through creative, arts-based approaches

The event is hybrid, but we encourage you to attend in person if you’re able, to make the most of the interactive activity. 

Sign-up by 26 February 2025.

ºù«Ӱҵ the facilitator 

Abril Ríos-Rivera is a DPhil candidate in Migration Studies at the University of Oxford, researching migrant agency, gender, and sexuality within forced migration contexts in Latin America. Her doctoral work integrates participatory arts-based approaches within a mixed-methods framework. She is also a consultant on forced displacement and refugee wellbeing in Kenya and has a background in psychology, specializing in social and cultural psychology, gender studies, and sexuality. Her experience includes working with civil society and intergovernmental organizations on migration, asylum, wellbeing, and entrepreneurship in Mexico and East Africa.

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