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.
This is an excellent introductory text on narrative and is an important read for any student thinking of embarking on narrative as a a research method. I have ordered 5 texts for purchase for our library and I will be encouraging students to buy the text if they are planning to use Narrative at Masters level
This is a very much needed ressource on narrative methodology, very well written, VERY well organized and therefore will be particularly helpful for beginners and intermediate students. After a long streak of interest for narratives in various research communities, this is a timely book on the popular subject of narrative research, and I am sure Christine Bold's book will contribute to have narrative research considered more naturally as a systematic qualitative approach in many departments. The chapters are written to be applicable to a wide range of research projects, and guides the reader thoroughly through stages in the process of organizing a narrative research project, and both encourages and stimulates students to reflect carefully their choices. This book is a solid resource in itself, but also includes lots of well researched suggestions for further reading. HIGHLY recommended from my chair!
This type of research is rare and gives a true picture of life-story account of researchers and participant involved. Readable and a good aid to study.
This is a really useful and insightful book, which discusses the complexities and and key issues of using a narrative approach in research.
