Vision statement

To promote visual methodologies as research for social change in Southern Africa.

Mission statement

The mission of the Centre for Visual Methodologies and Social Change has three areas of focus: First, it strives to provide leadership at the faculty-level in relation to visual methodologies, arts-informed research and approaching research as social change – with a particular interest in collaborative participatory outreach and community-based research. Leadership is also provided through its publications and through its linkages to several international projects. Second, it is committed to providing support to Media Studies modules in the School of Language, Literacies and Media Education at both the undergraduate and postgraduate level. Third, it offers a ‘home-base’ for funded research studies of staff involved in specific visual methodology projects, with the possibility of establishing itself as a national training centre in the area of photovoice and other action-based visual methodologies.