Beyond the standard interview: the use of graphic elicitation and arts-based methods

By A. Bagnoli. 2009

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This article reviews three visual methods based on drawing that I applied in my research on young people: the arts-based projective technique, the self-portrait, and the graphic elicitation methods of the relational map and the timeline. Examples of these methods are drawn from their application in two studies, the Narratives of Identity and Migration project, exploring young people and identities in England and Italy, and the Young Lives and Times. The article argues that applying these drawing methods in the context of an interview can open up participants’ interpretations of questions, and allow a creative way of interviewing that is responsive to participants’ own meanings and associations. The article discusses the analytical potential of graphic elicitation and arts-based methods, by making reference to the insights that they offered in the contextual analysis with more traditional text-based data. The efficacy of these methods is critically discussed, together with their limitations, and their potential within the context of qualitative longitudinal research.

Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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Pluralisms in Qualitative Research: From Multiple Methods to Integrated Methods (2011, background): “There is another advantage here; as Bagnoli (2009 , p.”
‘I felt closed in and like I couldn’t breathe’: A qualitative study exploring the mainstream educational experiences of autistic young people (2018, background): “Offering participatory methods helped mitigate anxiety associated with expressing experiences verbally, and supported participants ‘to access and represent different levels of experience’ (Bagnoli, 2009, p. 547).”
Designing interviews to generate rich data for information systems research (2011, background): “Images can make different parts of human consciousness, such as tacit knowledge, accessible to both the researcher and the interviewee because they address the limitations of language as a means of creating and communicating knowledge (Bagnoli, 2009).”
Teaching implicit leadership theories to develop leaders and leadership : how and why it can make a difference (2011, methodology): “As Warren (2009) points out, there are several different methods of employing visual material, such as taking existing material and using it to conclude, for example, an organization, or asking interview partners to draw in response to a question (see, for example, Bagnoli, 2009). The exercise we pr”
Timelining: visualizing experience (2011, background): “Various researchers have drawn attention to the value of time by using timelines, life grids, event history calendars and memory books (Bagnoli, 2009; Martyn and Belli, 2002; Thomson and Holland, 2005; Wilson et al., 2007), as well as through the use of repeated interactions in longitudinal…”
Elicitation Techniques: Getting People to Talk About Ideas They Don’t Usually Talk About (2015, background): “This expression of meaning is precisely what researchers want, and by asking participants to explain and reflect on their drawings, they gain insight into their conceptual understandings, which may include their “plans, dreams, dilemmas, and emotions” (Bagnoli, 2009, p. 551).”
Why might you use narrative methodology? A story about narrative (2016, methodology): “Interviews supplemented by visual methods We have also integrated visual methods in our interviews since visual methods can capture a less inhibited, more spontaneous account of expe rience (Bagnoli, 2009).”
The use of visual methods with children in a mixed methods study of family food practices (2013, neutral): “Sweetman, 2009), and the question of what, if anything, visual methods add ‘beyond the standard interview’ (Bagnoli, 2009; cf. Darbyshire, MacDougall, & Schiller, 2005).”
Affective experiences of built environments and the promotion of urban walking (2019, methodology): “212 Photo-elicitation is a popular tool in health and psychology research (Bagnoli, 2009; Frith et 213 al., 2005), and had received some application in relation to transportation and walking 214 research (Belon et al., 2014; Guell and Ogilvie 2013).”
Timeline Mapping in Qualitative Interviews: A Study of Resilience with Marginalized Groups (2015, methodology): “Complementary aspects of timelines for enhancement of verbal interviewing are also confirmed by other research utilizing visual methods (Bagnoli, 2009; Patterson, et al., 2012; Sheridan et al., 2012).”