As a visual learner, I love conceptualizing my thoughts using abstract elements; it allow for a better understanding and facilitate capturing the complexities. Visual images in qualitative research can be used “as a vehicle for discovering and communicating meanings that emerge in the research process” (Jongeward, 2009, p. 240). Using visuals in qualitative scholarly work provides a context for promoting innovative research and advancing knowledge. Creating the visuals always help me better understand the abstract concepts. These are a few examples of my visualizations, whiteboard videos, and info-graphics that I created in different research projects.

Conceptual framework to study learning spaces in doctoral education 

Schematic overview of the sequential yet overlapped phases of the study

Lefebvre’s (1991) spatial triad — Production of space

An example of my research timelines

 

Coding strategies and development of themes drawing on Thematic analysis

 Vimeo video

Stanford University Teaching Fellowship

 Whiteboard video

Presentation of my PhD research proposal

A visual summary of my favorite design book, The Design Way (Intentional Change in an Unpredictable World)

The very first info-graphic that I’ve ever made; a review of the literature of design thinking