Timelining: visualizing experience
By J. Sheridan, K. Chamberlain, A. Dupuis. 2011
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This article discusses the uses and benefits of an innovative method of graphic elicitation; timelining. The method was developed in the context of a narrative-based research project on fatness and weight loss. Participants’ weight over time was plotted on a graph, informed and elaborated by a variety of material objects such as photographs, diaries, and medical records. The timeline provided a focus for participants and prompted their stories of weight loss experiences over time. While initially intended as a simple heuristic tool for eliciting talk, over the course of the research the process of timelining became a central feature of the project. Timelining is a subtle and malleable research method. While keeping time in view, timelining documents, records, extends and deepens understandings of participants’ past experiences. It encourages the construction of rich temporal narratives. It also provides opportunity for a deeper researcher-participant relationship to develop. This form of graphic elicitation has particular value for narrative forms of research.
Subfields: General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science
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Citations in the corpus
- Timeline Mapping in Qualitative Interviews: A Study of Resilience with Marginalized Groups (2015, methodology): “Timelines have been found to strengthen data by enhancing interviewer-participant rapport, mutual understanding, and reflexivity through interactive and supportive engagement with a time-lined representation of a participant's life (Berends, 2011; Sheridan et al., 2011).”