Rooms with a View: Images of Academic Writing

Higher education studies has left aside a visual approach to the study of higher education even though visual studies have almost reached mainstream status in the social sciences (Kortegast et al., 2019; Metcalfe (2015; 2012). Photo-elicited interviews in higher education research and particularly participant-generated visual methods enhance other ways of knowing (Kortegast et al., 2019; providing new perspectives on academic work that would have remained invisible otherwise (Mora, Undurraga & Simbürger, 2023). Academic writing in higher education is one the topics that has hardly ever been researched from a visual perspective. In the current paper I will present photo-elicited interviews with 20 academics from the social sciences, humanities and arts in Chile on their experience and associations with academic writing. For the panel discussion I would like to focus on images that show the still view outside the office window of academics and that accompany academics like a basso continuo in their writing process.