Category: Research & Methodology

When John Snow plotted cholera deaths on a map of Soho in 1854, he did something that changed public health forever. By placing disease in space — treating location as data — he identified the Broad Street water pump as the source of an outbreak that had killed hundreds within days. The map did not…

Photovoice is a participatory action research method in which community members use photography to document their own environment, then collaboratively analyse and discuss what they have captured. The technique was formally developed by Caroline Wang and Mary Ann Burris in 1992, initially in the context of women’s health in rural China, and has since been…