Visual Ethnography Leiden University

Overview

Visual Ethnography provides an important framework, toolkit, and skillset to address the pressing concerns of Global Vulnerabilities and Social Resilience.
Visual Ethnography draws upon audiovisual media's unique ability to share insights about people and places on multiple registers – discursive, sensory, embodied, spatial, etc. Furthermore, with the growing prominence of digital media, Visual Ethnography offers an expanded framework for producing contemporary anthropological research. Multimodal approaches have become increasingly important components in ethnographic research for collaborating with research communities and expanding the range of scholarly outputs. Visual Ethnography highlights the vital role anthropology plays in the greater public.

What you will learn

The master's specialisation in Visual Ethnography enables you to combine technical mastery of audiovisual production with ethnographic research skills. Your experience ranges from project design to field studies, to scholarly output.

Skills after graduation

Graduates of our Visual Ethnography master's specialisation are independent, critical thinkers with a creative and problem-solving attitude. They are able to adapt a broad range of visual methods to specific research problems and use a comparative and often holistic approach to both the big critical problems of our times and local manifestations thereof. This unique combination of skills and approach is highly valued and relevant to our fast changing globalising world.

Career prospects

Positions our alumni hold

Our graduates are well represented in certain areas, such as the media industry, development organisations, the government, education, municipalities, art and culture industry, and scientific institutes.

Some examples:

• Policy advisor at an NGO or governmental institution;
• Scientific researcher / PhD candidate;
• Corporate anthropologist;
• Museum curator;
• Documentary filmmaker;
• Communications and public relations officer.

Accreditation

Accredited by NVAO, the Accreditation Organisation of the Netherlands and Flanders.