An incredible project led by Associate Professor Mary Wyer, using video-reflexive methods and simulation in the New South Wales Biocontainment Centre was recently featured on ABC News in Australia.
A/Prof Wyer says: “It’s pretty special to see this ABC News story feature a research project that began as an idea I had a few years ago. It took time, planning, and a lot of collaboration to bring it to life, and I feel incredibly lucky to work with such a brilliant team!”
The inaugural conference of the International Association of Video Reflexive Ethnographers has now come to a close. It was a joyous celebration and showcase of the incredible work that VRE researchers are doing all around the world.
Huge congratulations and gratitude to all presenters, who joined us over so many time zones, often at inhospitable hours of the day and night. We will be posting recaps of the conference over the next few days, and we have no doubt the reflexive conversations will continue.
VREIA members recently came together in a wonderful full-day panel on exnovation, chaired by Karina Maldonado-Mariscal (TU Dortmund University) and Prof Jessica Mesman (Maastricht University) at the 2025 STS-HUB conference in Humbolt University.
The panel brought together researchers across two ‘faces’ of exnovation: a deliberate termination of structures, technologies, products, and practices (Heyen, 2017) and approaching forgotten competencies as valuable resources for improvement (Mesman 2008).
Thank you to Karina Maldonado-Mariscal for the panel photos!
The organising committee warmly invites you to join us at the inaugural conference of the International Association of Video Reflexive Ethnographers. The online conference will bring together scholars from across the globe, to discuss video reflexive ethnography.
The program will include keynote presentations from Professor Rick Iedema, Independent Scholar, and Professor Verena Thomas from Edith Cowan University, along with opportunities for conference delegates to present their research and discuss relevant topics of interest.
The 2025 Video Reflexive Ethnography conference offers VRE practitioners the opportunity to reflect on more than a decade of ground-breaking research, during which the methodology has driven insights and impacts in health and other disciplines. In particular, video-reflexivity has enabled researchers to embrace, account for, and gain traction with complexity in practice, across multiple settings.
Video-reflexive ethnography is a methodology that bridges academic and professional practice. While seeking to explore VRE’s past, present and future, we are also seeking to examine further opportunities for VRE in engagement with other methods, disciplines and approaches.
Submissions may seek to address:
Together, we will explore and discuss the innovative field of video reflexive ethnography, fostering rich dialogues and collaborations. We look forward to your participation in what promises to be a groundbreaking and inspiring conference.
Conference Format: The conference will be online, across a number of sessions that will accommodate different time zones across the Southern and Northern hemispheres.
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Click HERE to submit an abstract or propose a session.
A day of talks and workshops aimed at PhD students and researchers using or interested in video-reflexive ethnography (VRE).
September 7th 2018 at Leicester University
Start: 9:30am – finish approx. 3.30pm.
The day is free to all, and includes lunch, please use the link to book your place so we can make sure we have the right amount of food
Welcome and introduction to VRE: Tom Furniss (Leicester)
The polypharmacy challenge: optimising medicines in primary care for older people: Deborah Swinglehurst and Nina Fudge (Queen Mary, London)
Safety and Inter/Intra professional communication in AMU: Suzanne Grant (Dundee University).
PhD student session – speaker(s) TBC
George Davis Centre, Lancaster Road, Leicester LE1 7HA (this link takes you to google maps).
It is about a 15 minute walk from Leicester railway station to the George Davis Centre.
Information about car parking is here. The university uses a permit system, there is on street parking and the car parks marked on the map. They are often busy/full.
If you have any questions please get in touch:
Email: tpf3@leicester.ac.uk
Phone: 0116 252 5452
A recent VRE project focusing on ‘brilliant’ practices has been featured on Palliative Care Australia. The article describes the unexpected value for participants in videoing and reflecting on their practices.
The project is led and conducted by VREIA members Dr Aileen Collier, Dr Ann Dadich and Michael Hodgins. Well done team!
Danielle Bywaters and Rick Iedema were recently in the local news section of The Examiner, in a piece about Danielle’s PhD project with patients in Launceston General Hospital.
Health consultations filmed for improved performance, The Examiner, 19 August 2016.
The pair were also featured in University News at the University of Tasmania.
Well done Danielle and Rick!
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