Photovoice data collection
The Lighthouse at Townsville Aboriginal and Islander Health Services (TAIHS) is a diversionary service working with young people who are at risk or high risk of offending in the Townsville community. Social work researchers from JCU and staff from the Lighthouse program were interested in creative ways of exploring the needs of service users and to develop a strengths based resource for the work with young people whose voices are sometimes missing in reports, and in policy, program and resource development (add references from above). Using photovoice as a research approach with service users at The Lighthouse was about enabling them to present their day to day lives and perspectives. The participants in this study took photographs of places and objects that were meaningful to them and then explored their photos within focus group conversations using the SHOWeD method: “What do you See here? What is really Happening? How does this relate to Our lives? Why does this situation exist? What can we Do about it?” (Smith et al., 2012, p. 6). A further objective was to develop a strength card resource with young people, based on their photographs and discussions. The tally of young people who took part in the photo excursions and the focus group yarning/discussions consisted of: · 24 separate individuals who attended the program: 12 females, 12 males · Between 5 and 11 participants attended per session · 9 young people attended the focus groups discussions: 4 females, 5 males The age range of the young people attending program sessions and focus groups was 10-17 years. Software/equipment used to create/collect the data: Software/equipment used to manipulate/analyse the data:
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    Data record related to this publication Photovoice data Collection
    Data Publication title Photovoice data collection
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    The Lighthouse at Townsville Aboriginal and Islander Health Services (TAIHS) is a diversionary service working with young people who are at risk or high risk of offending in the Townsville community. Social work researchers from JCU and staff from the Lighthouse program were interested in creative ways of exploring the needs of service users and to develop a strengths based resource for the work with young people whose voices are sometimes missing in reports, and in policy, program and resource development (add references from above). Using photovoice as a research approach with service users at The Lighthouse was about enabling them to present their day to day lives and perspectives. The participants in this study took photographs of places and objects that were meaningful to them and then explored their photos within focus group conversations using the SHOWeD method: “What do you See here? What is really Happening? How does this relate to Our lives? Why does this situation exist? What can we Do about it?” (Smith et al., 2012, p. 6). A further objective was to develop a strength card resource with young people, based on their photographs and discussions. The tally of young people who took part in the photo excursions and the focus group yarning/discussions consisted of: · 24 separate individuals who attended the program: 12 females, 12 males · Between 5 and 11 participants attended per session · 9 young people attended the focus groups discussions: 4 females, 5 males The age range of the young people attending program sessions and focus groups was 10-17 years. Software/equipment used to create/collect the data: Software/equipment used to manipulate/analyse the data:
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      The data consists of de-identified transcripts of two focus groups (two pdf files), and a poster relating to the project (one pdf).
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  • Keywords
    • Young people; Aboriginal and Torres Strait people; diversionary services; photovoice research; community participation
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    People and Societies in the Tropics
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  • Time Period 2018-2019
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    • Townsville
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    Attachment Final Poster Photovoice_rev.pdf
    The Data Manager is: Ines Zuchowski
    College or Centre College of Arts, Society & Education
    Access conditions Conditional: Contact researchdata@jcu.edu.au to request access to this data.
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    The data will be licensed under CC BY 4.0: Attribution 4.0 International
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      James Cook University
    Citation Zuchowski, Ines; Gair, Susan (2021): Photovoice data collection. James Cook University. https://doi.org/10.25903/rr0v-vf74