Actively engaging study participants in research to give them a voice is a method that has grown in popularity in recent years. But does this approach really give people a voice and if so how? In his research project <a href="http://fass.open.ac.uk/research/projects/methods-and-voice" target="_blank">"Do Participatory Visual Methods Give 'Voice'?"</a> Dr Daniel McCulloch from the Open University investigates participatory visual methods to see if they can shine a light on how best to help people in poverty.