This book focuses on photography within the social research field, building a solid foundation for photography as a social research method and describing different techniques and applications of photo research. It provides a comprehensive approach to research photography, from preparation and the ethical considerations that need to be understood prior to going into the field, to collecting data, analysis and preparing research for publication. It also introduces artistic genres of photography to help readers with the choices they make when pursuing photographic research and as a reminder that when collecting photographs that they are in fact producing art. The ethical issues examined place a new focus on dignity and considerations of participant anonymity and recognition, informed consent, working with vulnerable groups, unequal power relationships and possible intervention. Combining preparation and ethics, it examines how best to collect and take good photographs, and explores the practical issues of stigma and introduces Verstaendnis (german: understanding) to aid researchers in the field. Subsequently, the book discusses the different photo-analytical approaches for researchers and provides examples of how to analyse photographs using the different techniques. Lastly, it offers guidelines, with examples, for researchers wanting to publish their work.

This book highlights the results from over a year of ethnobotanical research in a rural and an urban community in Jamaica, where we interviewed more than 100 people who use medicinal plants for healthcare. The goal of this research was to better understand patterns of medicinal plant knowledge, and to find out which plants are used in consensus by local people for a variety of illnesses. For this book, we selected 25 popular medicinal plant species mentioned during fieldwork. Through individual interviews, we were able to rank plants according to their frequency of mention, and categorized the medicinal uses for each species as "major" (mentioned by more than 20% of people in a community) or "minor" (mentioned by more than 5%, but less than 20% of people). Botanical identification of plant specimens collected in the wild allowed for cross-linking of common and scientific plant names. To supplement field research, we undertook a comprehensive search and review of the ethnobotanical and biomedical literature. Our book summarizes all this information in detail under specific sub-headings.

Dieses Buch konzentriert sich auf die Fotografie im Bereich der Sozialforschung. Es schafft eine umfassende Grundlage für die Fotografie als Methode der Sozialforschung und beschreibt verschiedene Techniken und Anwendungen der Fotoforschung. Das Buch bietet zudem reichhaltige Ansätze für die Forschungsfotografie, von der Vorbereitung und den ethischen Erwägungen, die vor dem Einsatz im Feld verstanden werden müssen, bis hin zur Datenerfassung, Analyse und Aufbereitung für die Veröffentlichung. Darüber hinaus werden künstlerische Gattungen der Fotografie vorgestellt, um den Lesern bei der Auswahl ihrer fotografischen Forschungsarbeit zu helfen und sie daran zu erinnern, dass sie beim Sammeln von Fotografien tatsächlich Kunst produzieren. Die ethischen Fragen bieten zudem neue Schwerpunkte für Leser zur Würde der Teilnehmer und weiter Überlegungen zur Anonymität oder auch Anerkennung, informierter Zustimmung, Forschung mit bedürftigen Gruppen, ungleichen Machtverhältnissen, und möglichen Interventionen. In einer Kombination aus Vorbereitung und Ethik wird hinterfragt, wie man am besten gute Fotos sammeln und aufnehmen kann, und es werden die praktischen Fragen der Stigmatisierung erörtert und Verständnis zur Unterstützung der Forscher im Feld eingeführt. Anschließend werden die verschiedenen fotoanalytischen Ansätze für Forscher erörtert und Beispiele für die Analyse von Fotos mit den verschiedenen Techniken gegeben. Abschließend bietet das Buch Leitlinien mit Beispielen für Forscher, die ihre Arbeit veröffentlichen möchten und wie dies ermöglicht werden kann.

This book highlights the results from over a year of ethnobotanical research in a rural and an urban community in Jamaica, where we interviewed more than 100 people who use medicinal plants for healthcare. The goal of this research was to better understand patterns of medicinal plant knowledge, and to find out which plants are used in consensus by local people for a variety of illnesses. For this book, we selected 25 popular medicinal plant species mentioned during fieldwork. Through individual interviews, we were able to rank plants according to their frequency of mention, and categorized the medicinal uses for each species as "major" (mentioned by more than 20% of people in a community) or "minor" (mentioned by more than 5%, but less than 20% of people). Botanical identification of plant specimens collected in the wild allowed for cross-linking of common and scientific plant names. To supplement field research, we undertook a comprehensive search and review of the ethnobotanical and biomedical literature. Our book summarizes all this information in detail under specific sub-headings.

This book focuses on photography within the social research field, building a solid foundation for photography as a social research method and describing different techniques and applications of photo research. It provides a comprehensive approach to research photography, from preparation and the ethical considerations that need to be understood prior to going into the field, to collecting data, analysis and preparing research for publication. It also introduces artistic genres of photography to help readers with the choices they make when pursuing photographic research and as a reminder that when collecting photographs that they are in fact producing art. The ethical issues examined place a new focus on dignity and considerations of participant anonymity and recognition, informed consent, working with vulnerable groups, unequal power relationships and possible intervention. Combining preparation and ethics, it examines how best to collect and take good photographs, and explores the practical issues of stigma and introduces Verstaendnis (german: understanding) to aid researchers in the field. Subsequently, the book discusses the different photo-analytical approaches for researchers and provides examples of how to analyse photographs using the different techniques. Lastly, it offers guidelines, with examples, for researchers wanting to publish their work.

Mrs May - Blurb A respectable married schoolteacher journeys from the comfortable middle-class suburbs of a university city into its seamy subcultures. She is on a mission to rescue a teenage boy who has turned his back on privilege to run feral on the streets. It is a quest that will transform both their lives. In the unravelling of the boy's tangled psychology, the woman becomes lost in the dark recesses of her own psyche. So who will be redeemed in the end, the wayward boy or the tormented woman who came to save him? Perhaps both... Perhaps neither... David Pick's is a new and important voice on the block: acute observation, accomplished writing, and a story that sucks you in from page one. A fine read. Graham Hurley, author of the best-selling D/I Faraday series. Mrs May is more than a psychological thriller. Mrs May sheds light on the shadowy world of youth crime and youth justice, raising issues that society would be foolish to ignore. Mrs May will make you think. David Pick has produced a blistering read, which, through medium of personal tragedy and redemption explores a subject too often hidden from the public gaze, the effect on an individual who does not conform to the restrictions of the system and falls through a gap that lacks any kind of safety net. To bring about change in a troubled life it takes only one person to care, but that sometimes comes at a cost to the individual concerned. This is the territory explored in Mrs May in a psycho-sexual roller coaster that is impossible to put down. Jack Ludlow, author of The Burning Sky