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Drawing across the Disciplines: PhotoVoice Webinar – April 1, 2026
Session Description
April 1 2026 @ 10:30 am - 12:00 pm
The Centre for Research & Innovation Support (CRIS) presents the next session in the Drawing Across the Disciplines series. In this session, we explore PhotoVoice a qualitative methodology that uses photography and words of research participants. Developed in the 1990s in the field of public health, PhotoVoice is a visual research method that foregrounds co-created, participatory research and is practiced across various disciplines. Research teams explore questions of privacy, ethics, and community safety whilst using photography in PhotoVoice projects. Please email cris@utoronto.ca if your community partners want to attend this webinar.
As with past the Drawing Across the Discipline sessions, this webinar will be followed by a hands-on, limited enrolment workshop. The workshop will focus on how to explore PhotoVoice in research projects and participants will leave with a draft plan to use the method in their future research. To express interest in participating in this workshop please do so using this link: https://cris.eve.utoronto.ca/home/events/6465
Learning Objectives
At the end of the webinar participants will be able to:
- Compare different disciplinary uses of PhotoVoice in research programs
- Distinguish how PhotoVoice functions in specific scholarly contexts
- Describe different ways of implementing the use of PhotoVoice across disciplines and research projects
Additional Information
Moderator: Mike Serafin: Library Technologies & Liaison Librarian, UTM
Speakers:
Hemalatha Ganapathy-Coleman, Assistant Professor & Director, Centre for South Asian Critical Humanities, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, UTM
Marianne Touchie Windisch, Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair Sustainable Urban Housing, Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering and Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
Lisa Hawke, Staff Scientist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) and Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, UTSG