What is Narrative Research?

What is Narrative Research? An Introduction to Some Key Ideas The Development of Narrative Research Narrative in Social Science Research The Uses of Narrative Research Challenges in Narrative Research Criticisms of Narrative Research and Responses to Them Summary Short Annotated Bibliography of Key References for Further Reading Links to Powerpoint Slides on NCRM Website and to other Relevant Resources

Corinne Squire is Co-Director of ANRP and Chair in Global Inequalities, University of Bristol, UK. She is also Associate Researcher at Witwatersrand University, South Africa, and holds visiting positions at UCL, Manchester University, and Edinburgh University, UK. Recent publications include Stories changing lives (ed, 2021) and Researching family narratives (2021) coauthored with Julia Brannen and Ann Phoenix. Molly Andrews is Honorary Professor of Political Psychology at the Social Research Institute, University College London, UK, and the co-director of the Association of Narrative Research and Practice (ANRP). In 2019-2020, she was the Jane and Aatos Professor in Studies on Contemporary Society at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. Publications include Narrative imagination and everyday life (2014). For more information, see https://www.mollyandrews.co.uk. Mark Davis is Associate Professor in the School of Social Sciences, Monash University, Australia. His publications include Selling Immunity: Self, Culture and Economy in Healthcare and Medicine (2022) and Pandemic, Publics and Narrative (2020) co-authored with Davina Lohm. For more information, see https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/mark-davis. Cigdem Esin was a narrative researcher and co-director of the Association of Narrative Research and Practice - previously the Centre for Narrative Research. She first arrived at CNR to do her PhD in 2004. Before her untimely death in 2022, Cigdem taught Psychosocial Studies at the University of East London, UK. Her key interests were in the interconnections between micro- and macro-narratives, narrative positioning and narratives in relation to constructions of the self. Barbara Harrison is Emerita Professor of Sociology at University of East London, UK, and Visiting Lecturer in the Professional Doctorate Programmes at Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust. She is editor of the four-volume Life story research (2009). She has