Multimodal Ethnography Workshop with Dr. Sevasti-Melissa Nolas

Critical Childhood Studies Centre

Come learn how to study cultures using different methods at the Multi-Modal Ethnography Workshop with Dr. Sevasti-Melissa Nolas!

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Join us for the Multi-Modal Ethnography Workshop with Dr. Sevasti-Melissa Nolas!While text-based approaches to qualitative research in the social sciences remain dominant, doing research with different modes and media including images (still/moving; found/made through both analogue and digital means), sound, objects, smell, and mobile methods remains popular, especially amongst students. This two-hour workshop will provide a brief introduction to multimodal ethnography through theory, research, and practice. Participants will be introduced to the interdisciplinary heritage of approaches to multimodal research in the social sciences and will also have the opportunity to hear about the use of multimodal ethnography in practice from the cross-national ERC Connectors Study. This introduction will be followed by a hands-on activity to engage our multimodal sensibilities and to think about the design, conduct, and analysis of multimodal research. The workshop is designed as a ‘taster’ and no prior knowledge or experience is required. There will be small group work so come prepared to exchange ideas, experiences, and to get your hands dirty. <ul><li>Date: 29th May, 2025</li><li>Time: 18.00 to 20.00</li><li>Location: Classroom 106, Gordon House, UCL Main Campus. What3Words: spins.delay.oath</li></ul> Please bring with you the following items: paper, colouring pencils/pen, glue, scissors, magazine or newspaper scraps or any other ephemera you would otherwise recycle, and a printed photograph of ‘something that matters to you’ (this could be anything or anyone so long as you are happy to share with others)

Melissa Nolas is a visual sociologist, digital archivist, writer, and photographer with considerable experience in communicating and archiving social science research. In 2021, she co-founded, and now directs, the <a href="https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchildphotoarchive.org%2F&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cp.rubio%40ucl.ac.uk%7C32c1db3248fb4a986a8a08dd58079ba4%7C1faf88fea9984c5b93c9210a11d9a5c2%7C0%7C0%7C638763511880916055%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=gYiw1%2B1PvgnY7m9bTo5Y2tXsYelmwjbfI0jAHCaE7JA%3D&amp;reserved=0" title="https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchildphotoarchive.org%2F&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cp.rubio%40ucl.ac.uk%7C32c1db3248fb4a986a8a08dd58079ba4%7C1faf88fea9984c5b93c9210a11d9a5c2%7C0%7C0%7C638763511880916055%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=gYiw1%2B1PvgnY7m9bTo5Y2tXsYelmwjbfI0jAHCaE7JA%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Children’s Photography Archive</a>. Her current research focuses on childhood publics, children’s cultures and their cultural productions, digital archives, and creative and multimodal ethnographic research. This research is housed under the ongoing <a href="https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchildhoodpublics.org%2F&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cp.rubio%40ucl.ac.uk%7C32c1db3248fb4a986a8a08dd58079ba4%7C1faf88fea9984c5b93c9210a11d9a5c2%7C0%7C0%7C638763511880938386%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=Fy2x2eqEBhXEldt7YYt9o7gK7gMI5Rl61HpT9Wq7fRw%3D&amp;reserved=0" title="https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchildhoodpublics.org%2F&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cp.rubio%40ucl.ac.uk%7C32c1db3248fb4a986a8a08dd58079ba4%7C1faf88fea9984c5b93c9210a11d9a5c2%7C0%7C0%7C638763511880938386%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=Fy2x2eqEBhXEldt7YYt9o7gK7gMI5Rl61HpT9Wq7fRw%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Childhood Publics Research Programme</a>. Following twenty years in academia, where she taught and did research including holding two prestigious European Research Council grants, she continues her research programme as an independent scholar. She is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Critical Childhood Studies until June 2025.

The Critical Childhood Studies Centre is a home for world-leading scholarship about childhood as a socio-political, cultural, and historical phenomenon in diverse global contexts. The Centre provides a focal point for faculty and students at all levels in UCL to engage in innovative and multi-disciplinary research, teaching, and public engagement geared towards achieving social justice with and for children and young people. <a href="https://www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/critical-childhood-studies-centre" title="https://www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/critical-childhood-studies-centre" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Find out more clicking here.</a>

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