Using Narrative in Research
- Christine Bold - Liverpool Hope University, UK
Christine Bold's book examines narrative approaches across a range of research contexts and disciplinary boundaries and will be of equal value to practitioners and academic students and researchers alike.
Drawing on a range of real-life examples of narrative studies, Using Narrative in Research will enable readers to provide a sound justification for adopting a narrative-based approach and will help them to write about and write up narrative in research.
This book examines:
• How we design research projects with a narrative approach
• Ethics
• Narrative thinking
• Collecting narrative data
• Analysing narrative data
• Representation in narrative analysis
• Reporting and writing up narrative research.
The book reads very nicely, the examples are carefully chosen and the theoretical background surely makes it a perfect match. Students should use the book when thinking about doing narrative analysis.
The book provides valuable ideas and insights into the use of narrative research. The book is particularly useful for Master and doctoral students whose studies focus on life histories and qualitative accounts of complex phenomena which are not amenable to more traditional means of data collection.
Had envisaged using in the research method module, - ultimately i did not teach this module _ I forwarded info to campus library.
as an introduction to narrative methodology i feel this is a good starting text. The author shares her own experience to illustrate and explain to the reader, the use of narrative as a qualitative research methodology.
Christine Bold has provided an easy to understand introduction to narrative research. Recommended read.
Good introductory text for narrative approachesd to research projects throughout the undergraduate programme
The book covers issues relevant to narrative research in a clear fashion. It is written in a way that is accessible to students.
Useful text, but a bit too specialised for our module
I like the headings and sub headings, they make the text accessible for undergraduates thinking of a narrative focus for their dissertation. A well informed text, with good illustration and practice implications. I wonder if it would benefit from a chapter summarising key theoretical strands in narrative analysis, but do note that there is helpful reference 'in context' throughout.
Qualitative research is gaining popularity among researchers. For social researchers using narrative in research methods produce very rich data for our understanding a human phenomena. Christine Bold's book provides answers to some of the nagging questions about using a narrative research methods in the social sciences. I strongly recommend it to qualitative researchers and student.
This book has been adopted as supplemental reading
