Speaking the ‘friend language’: a visual diary of participant–researcher relationships

I share how I survived the obstacles of doing a doctoral thesis with the help of my visual journal. Through doodling and drawing, I learnt to speak ‘friend’ – like in that scene from The Lord of the Rings where saying the word unlocks the Doors of Durin – in my case, to access the world of meaning of lecturers at Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and University of Buenos Aires (UBA).