10:30 AM - 3:30 PM, Wednesday 5 November 2014

Place: Main Arts Building, Bangor University, Bangor.

Presenters:

• Professor Howard Davis, School of Social Sciences, Bangor University
• Dr Marta Eichsteller, School of Social Sciences, Bangor University

Workshop Description:

The so-called ‘biographical turn’ in qualitative social sciences has proved to be popular among researchers looking for in-depth understanding of how individual actions and broader social processes interact. It has also produced many different versions of biographical data collection and analysis. For the researcher planning to use a biographical approach there are choices to be made which will be influenced by research aims, epistemology, theory, analytical procedures and software.

The course is designed to help researchers interested in biographical approaches but who are unclear about which type of narrative analysis to adopt. It will combine an overview of different methods of interpretation (e.g. formal structural analysis, narrative ethnography, fsQCA analysis) with data-based sessions. It will be informed by research conducted for the EU FP7 project Euroidentities, one of the most extensive applications of biographical narrative within Europe, as well as systematic methodological research comparing alternative biographical narrative approaches.

This workshop will also be run in Cardiff on 4 March 2015.

Cost

• Wales DTC postgraduate social science research students, i.e. students registered at Aberystwyth, Bangor, Cardiff or Swansea Universities – free of charge.
• Postgraduate social science research students registered at a UK HEI: free of charge
• Non social-science postgraduate research students: £30.00
• Staff at HEIs, ESRC funded researchers, UK registered charities: £60.00
• Others: £150

Lunch and refreshments are provided.  We cannot cover the cost of travel or accommodation.

Deadline for bookings

28 October 2014

Bookings