The Visual Codebook pairs each coded segment of interview material with the image it refers to, so that a stretch of transcript and the work it describes can be read together rather than apart. Its analytical value lies in precision: when a passage that reads on the page as hesitation or vagueness is set beside the image the participant was discussing, the supposed vagueness often resolves into a precise non-verbal account of value that the viewer can see.
Each entry pairs a coded interview segment with the image discussed at that moment in the interview. The focused code names the analytical category. The theme states the theoretical content. Use the filter bar to view segments by category or participant. Click any card to expand the full entry with quotes, parameter rationale, and integration notes.
The Visual Codebook was used within the coding, not after it. A passage of transcript that read as hesitation, set beside the image the participant had referred to at the moment of hesitation, resolved in more than one instance not into vagueness but into a precise gesture towards something the image showed and the words could not. That reframing is what first suggested that the values category was not a gap in what participants knew but a gap in what a purely verbal transcript could record.
The Visual Codebook is one of three research instruments. Its design and analytical function are described in Chapter 3 (section 3.5.1) and its findings contribution in Chapter 5 (section 5.3.1).
Instrument by Paul Gardiner, LSAD / Queen's University Belfast.