Citation
(2014), "2013 Awards for Excellence", Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management, Vol. 9 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/QROM-03-2014-002
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
2013 Awards for Excellence
Article Type: 2013 Awards for Excellence From: Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: An International Journal, Volume 9, Issue 1
The following article was selected for this year's Outstanding Paper Award for, Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: An International Journal
“Lessons from photoelicitation: encouraging working men to speak”
Natasha Slutskaya and Alexander Simpson
Brunel Business School, Brunel University, London, UK
Jason Hughes
Department of Sociology and Communications, Brunel University, London, UK
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the possibilities of incorporating such visual methods as photoelicitation and
photovoice into qualitative research, in order to retrieve something that, as a result of particular group socialisation,
has been hidden, unspoken of or marginalised.
Design/methodology/approach – The research design combines 40 in-depth verbal interviews with male butchers, with the use of photoelicitation and photovoice,
in order to increase participant control of data generation.
Findings – Results suggest that photoelicitation enabled working-class men to engage with themes which are rarely reflected on or
discussed; which may sit uneasily with desired presentations of self; and which challenge traditional notions of gendered
work. It prompted participants to elaborate and translate their daily experiences of physical labour into more expressive
and detailed accounts. This provided room for the display of positive emotions and self-evaluation and the surfacing of the
aesthetics and the pleasures of the trade – aspects that might have been otherwise concealed as a result of adherence to identity
affirming norms. Photoelicitation also evoked powerful nostalgic themes about the past: a lament for the loss of skills; the
passing of the time of closer communities and more traditional values.
Originality/value – The use of photovoice and photoelicitation in the exploration of a class and gendered “habitus” has highlighted the power
of visual methods to offer a closer look at what participants considered important, to open space for the emergence of unexpected
topics and themes and to allow for more comprehensive and reflective elaboration on specificities of personal experiences
and emotions.
Keywords Dirty work, Interviews, Masculinity, Photoelicitation, Photographs, Photovoice, Research methods, Social class, United Kingdom
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This article originally appeared in Volume 7 Number 1, 2012, Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: An International Journal
The following articles were selected for this year's Highly Commended Award
"Online exchanges among cancer patients and caregivers: constructing and sharing health knowledge about time"
Guendalina Graffigna, Chiara Libreri and Claudio Bosio
This article originally appeared in Volume 7 Number 3, 2012, Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: An International Journal
"Looking desperately for courage or how to study a polysemic concept"
Michelle Harbour and Veronika Kisfalvi
This article originally appeared in Volume 7 Number 2, 2012, Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: An International Journal