Video provides unprecedented opportunities for social science research, enabling fine-grained analysis of social organisation, culture and communication. Video in Qualitative Research provides practical guidance for students and academics on how to use video in qualitative research, how to address the problems and issues that arise in undertaking video-based field studies and how to subject video recordings to detailed scrutiny and analysis.

Heath, Hindmarsh and Luff consider the ethical and practical issues that arise in recording and gathering data as well as how video enables new and distinctive ways of presenting insights, observations and findings to both academic and practitioner audiences. The book is illustrated throughout with a wide range of case material drawn from the authors own research projects, and these cases serve to situate the practical and methodological guidance offered by the book into real research scenarios.

Video in Qualitative Research is an invaluable guide for students and researchers across the social sciences thinking of using video as part of their research.

Christian Heath is Professor of Work and Organisation, Kings College London

Jon Hindmarsh is Reader in Work Practice and Technology, Kings College London

Paul Luff is Professor in Organisations and Technology, Kings College London

• Cover 2
• Contents 7
• Preface 8
• 1 VIDEO, ANALYSIS AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES 11
• 2 ACCESS, ETHICS AND PROJECT PLANNING 24
• 3 COLLECTING AUDIO-VISUAL DATA 47
• 4 ANALYSING VIDEO: DEVELOPING PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS 71
• 5 MATTERS OF CONTEXT: OBJECTS, PARTICIPATION AND INSTITUTIONAL PRACTICE 96
• 6 PREPARING PRESENTATIONS AND PUBLICATIONS 119
• 7 IMPLICATIONS, APPLICATIONS AND NEW DEVELOPMENTS 143
• APPENDIX 1: TRANSCRIPTION NOTATIONS 160
• APPENDIX 2: EXAMPLE OF AN INTRODUCTORY LETTER SEEKING ACCESS TO RECORD 165
• APPENDIX 3: TIPS FOR DATA SESSIONS 166
• APPENDIX 4: SELECTED REFERENCES TO OUR RESEARCH STUDIES 168
• REFERENCES 170