This five-day workshop explores participatory visual methods that help decenter the researcher in social science research, amplifying the voices of migrant and refugee youth. Participants will gain hands-on experience with PhotoVoice, a method that empowers participants to document their own lived experiences through photography, and be introduced to video-cued ethnography, which uses video recordings to elicit reflections on cultural practices. By shifting power dynamics in knowledge production, these methods offer more inclusive, participant-driven approaches to qualitative research. Led by experts in the field, this workshop equips researchers with innovative tools while fostering interdisciplinary collaboration.
Presented by the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at The New School for Social Research, and The New School.
Schedule:
(times subject to change)
| Session | Time | Location |
| Intro to Photovoice, with Lucy Bassett | February 27 (9:30am to 3:30pm) | The New School University Center 63 5th Ave, Room U200 New York, NY 10003 |
| Starting your Photovoice Project, with Lucy Bassett | February 28 (9:30am to 12:30pm) | 79 5th Ave, Fl 16, Room 1618 New York, NY 10003 |
| Intro to video-cued ethnography methodology, with Jenn Adair | March 27 (9:30am to 12:30pm) | The New School University Center 63 5th Ave, Room U200 New York, NY 10003 |
| Finalizing Your Photovoice Project, with Lucy Bassett | April 10 (9:30am to 3:30pm) | 79 5th Ave, Fl 17, Room 1722 New York, NY 10003 |
| Presenting and reflecting on your PhotoVoice project | April 11 (9:30am to 12:30pm) | 79 5th Ave, Fl 17, Room 1722 New York, NY 10003 |
Speakers:
Charles Bradley
Postdoctoral Fellow | Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at The New School
Dr. Charles Bradley’s research examines educational experiences and responses to conflict-induced displacement, with a particular focus on educators’ in situ efforts to implement bottom-up humanitarian planning and programming. In support of his research, Dr. Bradley was awarded the Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF), the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship (DDRA), the NESP Boren Fellowship, and the Columbia University Volpe Fellowship for International Service in Education.
Lucy Bassett
Professor of Practice in Public Policy | University of Virginia
Lucy Bassett is a Professor of Practice at the University of Virginia’s Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. She co-directs the Humanitarian Collaborative, an applied interdisciplinary research center that engages academics and practitioners around the world. Lucy is trained in the photovoice methodology and has used/is using it with displaced Syrian and Turkish children, Venezuelan migrants, and refugee families in Jordan.
Jennifer Adair
Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction | University of Texas, Austin
Jennifer Keys Adair, PhD is Professor of Curriculum and Instruction at The University of Texas at Austin. Trained in video-cued, multivocal ethnography, Dr. Adair conducts largescale qualitative students across national and global contexts. She is a former Young Scholars Fellow with the Foundation for Child Development, a major grant recipient of the Spencer Foundation to study civic action and racial justice, and most recently a multi-year grant recipient from the Brady Foundation to culturally validate and test the Markers of Agency tool, a capacity-building, culturally flexible reflection tool rooted in 10 years of agency research and racial justice in multiple nations, languages and communities. Dr. Adair is the author, along with co-author Dr. Kiyomi Sánchez-Suzuki Colegrove, of the book, Segregation by Experience: Agency, Racism and Early Learning (The University of Chicago Press, 2021) which won the 2021 Council on Anthropology and Education Outstanding Book Award and the 2021-2022 Book Study Award from the High Scope Educational Research Foundation.