Category: Narrative Matters, Natters and Beyond

In no particular order, I will upload the contributions one by one as they are formulated by you in coming days: Eljee Javier – ”That restorying thingy” In my contribution, I want to facilitate a discussion exploring what it means to ‘restory a narrative’. It seems that, in different kinds of narrative-based research, there are different varieties of restorying. I […]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2012/may/07/56-up-its-like-having-another-family?INTCMP=SRCH  ——– of interest to the narrativists amongst you? 56 Up: ‘It’s like having another family’ It began as a one-off look at how the class system defined the hopes and aspirations of British children. Now, almost half a century later, the Up series has evolved into one of the world’s great documentary projects. But how have these films affected […]

Guardian 28th April 2012, Sports section, p.8 Win or lose …… (David Conn) “Amid all the dizzying narratives as Manchester faces up to its most momentous of derby matches one central theme is how rapidly sport can chnage and with it the apparent job security of the modern football manager” So, here we have the (apparent) storyline of football manager […]

a date now seems to be set for this, Thursday 28th June. So, we now need to decide its format and who will present what 9e.g. form the Narrative Matters submitted abstracts etc). R

Please feel free to circulate this announcement. The Centre for Narrative Research, University of East London and the  NOVELLA ESRC Research Node, Institute of Education and UEL To Think is To Experiment Postgraduate Research Day 2012 Invitation for papers on ‘Narratives in/of Translation’ The Centre for Narrative Research organises the eleventh annual Research Day for graduate students on 25 April […]

Of interest to the narrativists amongst you maybe …. 1. An narrative approach to a key UK environmental disaster zone …. Davies, Hunter (2012). Sellafield Stories: Life In Britain’s First Nuclear Plant. Constable http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/mar/11/sellafield-stories-book-nuclear-accident http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sellafield-Stories-Britains-First-Nuclear/dp/1780332998/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1331465692&sr=1-1 (see bottom of page for more on this item). 2. An new oral history project: eavesdropping in our times http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/mar/11/conversation-mass-observation-recording-bbc?newsfeed=true “How the art of eavesdropping is […]

Duoethnography is not the use of two ethnographers in a single study. Rather it is a collaborative research methodology in which two or more researchers juxtapose their life histories in order to provide multiple understandings of a social phenomenon. The first book on duoethnography has just arrive at the Left Coast warehouse. Edited by Joe Norris, Richard Sawyer, and Darren […]

With Dr Ayesha Bashiruddin – an MA AppLing alumnus of Julian’s when he was teaching at Durham, and also a doctoral alumnus of OISE in Toronto where she studied with Michael Connelly of Narrative Inquiry fame – of the Aga Khan University in Karachi, Pakistan – I have just submitted a funding bid to the British Academy as follows: Developing narrative […]

First, in alphabetical author order, the full set of our nine Paper submissions, then the details of the Panel (with six potential contributions): PAPER SUBMISSIONS Mira Bekar – Co-constructing the social and interactive self in online text-based chats [abstract] Magdalena De Stefani — Reflexivity in action research: exploring the role of narratives [abstract] Richard Fay and Leah Davcheva – Being Jewish in Bulgaria: […]