Hi Chris and all
I don't know if this is of any interest re IVSC, but I spent several
months last year getting research ethics approval from the UK Social
Care Research Ethics Committee for my PV project with people with
dementia in care homes.
It was a bit of a nightmare process, but there is probably valuable
discussion to be had from sharing it. The REC raised numerous
concerns, not just about visual research ethics as such, which will
apply for anyone doing PV research (including things you might not
immediately think of, like who owns the images), but also about
research involving people who lack capacity to consent for themselves,
which might also apply for others doing PV research (eg with children,
or people with some kinds of learning disability).
My chapter in the PV handbook is about situated ethics - still the
model I prefer - but it proved impossible in reality to get this past
the REC without making various concessions to their more orthodox
standpoint. For example, I ended up with a consent form so long that
it creates incapacity even in those who don't lack capacity to begin
with!
Andrea
Quoting Chris High <[log in to unmask]>:
> Catching up with some of the discussion in December:
>
> I intend to put a panel proposal in for the International Visual Sociology
> Conference, which is being held at Goldsmiths College in London early on in
> the summer. It's a academic conference and I think would be a good place
> for discussion on PV in research contexts. I think two sessions, one
> looking at connections between PV in research and other research practices,
> or other labels for what's essentially PV (ie PV + breadth), and one
> looking at the ethics and authenticity of PV (ie PV + depth) would be
> timely and fit with the wider discussions about PV. It's also a good way
> to follow up on the IVSA conference + PV handbook launch last year. If
> anyone has any better ideas or would find it helpful to tweak the panel
> remit a bit to ensure their participation, please let me know straight away.
>
> Secondly, the international visual methods conference has now been
> announced for early September in New Zealand. Given that the two previous
> conferences have had a strong participatory constituency and a heterogenous
> mix of participants including artists, activists and practitioners, I think
> it would be a very appropriate forum to take the idea of a online
> conference of this network further. Would anyone like to take this one?
> It would require some work in conjunction with Sara and Geoff in NZ to
> think through how that would work, or whether it's in fact better and more
> practical to keep the two things separate.
>
> Chris
>
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