Doing Narrative Analysis a 3 day Summer Course

  Hi everyone, this is a short reflection on a 3 day summer course I attended. On August 23rd I travelled to Holland with the purpose of attending a 3 day workshop on  Narrative Analysis. This course was provided by the University of Twente in Enschede. As I am currently in my second year (meaning that I will be collecting my […]

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Adrian Holliday on PhD students, interculturality, reflexivity, community and internationalisation

Abstract Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development  DOI:10.1080/01434632.2015.1134554 Interviews with a small group of doctoral students at a British university indicate that the students feel that the programme provides an environment within which they develop interculturality through reflexive engagement with the PhD community and in some cases with the participants in their research. Significant here is that they are interpretivist, […]

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ME-Search and Research

Me-Search and Re-Search A Guide for Writing Scholarly Personal Narrative Manuscripts   Robert Nash, The University of Vermont DeMethra LaSha Bradley, University of Vermont Published 2011 From the Foreword: Robert and DeMethra’s book, Me-Searching and Re-Search, has caught my fancy in a number of ways. The book title cleverly captures what SPN is all about—it is about self narratives (the […]

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Narrative Works

Dear Narrative Matters 2010 Participant, We are delighted to announce the publication of Volume 1, Issue 1, of Narrative Works: Issues, Investigations, & Interventions, the new online, peer-reviewed journal published by the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Narrative at St. Thomas University, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. We invite you to visit the Narrative Works website to view the articles included […]

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Narrativity-Reflexivity Day (18th Feb 2011)

(This is an edited version of the introduction to the collection of texts which we circulated in preparation for the day. The texts contributed by particpants were then extensively discussed on the day itself …) A Second Narrativity-Reflexivity Seminar We have (so far) texts from the following participants: Magdalena, Julian, Richard, Lou, Juup, and Vivien. We also have texts from virtual participants – […]

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A 2nd 'Narrativity-Reflexivity' Session

As mentioned eearlier in this discussion area of the Doctoral Community blog, the first ‘Narrativity-Reflexivity’ gathering back in October seemed to have been enjoyable and of value. Therefore, we have raised the possibility of a follow-up 2nd session involving as many of our travelling, part-time and fll-time members of our community as possible. The most promising dates seem to be in the 2nd half […]

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An initial reflexivity-narrativity seminar

Positioning our research and ourselves in our research: An exploratory seminar on reflexive and narrative aspects of research (texts) This exploratory/initial seminar took place on 25th October 2010, as attended by Tanya, Shaun (Best), Magdalena, Richard, Eljee, and Viv. Richard set the context for the event (see below) and rehearsed again his reflexivity-narrativity visual presented in the earlier discussions in this […]

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I must be a profound thinker, and men like that naturally don’t speak very much

I was intrigued by Magdalena’s recent reflexivity post, but – in a shamelessly selfish way – what I took away from reading the post seems to reveal more about myself than her. This extract was quite illuminating, especially if one considers what could be there but isn’t: There was also the discussion on the narrative-reflexivity link, which helped me to […]

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