Using Narrative in Research by Christine Bold provides an accessible, easy-to-understand guide to the theory and practice of the use of narrative in research. Written with those new to narrative in mind, this book will enable readers to understand the origins of narrative traditions and to plan and carry out a narrative study of their own. 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. "Serving as an introduction to narrative methods and narrative analysis, Christine Bold's new book provides students, researchers, and other professionals with an introduction to the theory and practice of narrative approaches in research. This book provides clear coverage of the informing theories and principles that underpin narrative traditions and offers the reader guidance on the main methods of collecting and analyzing narrative data. This book does everything that a methods book needs to do. It is practical, yet sets out the theory and history behind the approach, and it looks explicitly at design, ethics, data gathering, data analysis and writing as an ongoing process of narrative research. Bold's text deals comprehensively with conceptual issues within narrative research and is driven throughout by a range of real research specific examples of narrative analysis in action. This is an ideal text for any student, researcher or professional interested in understanding and using narrative in research and analysis; it practical, example-driven coverage is ideally suited to those new to the field"--Publisher description. COVER Contents About the Author Acknowledgements 1. Narrative Beginnings: Autobiography, Biography and Fiction 2. What is Narrative? 3. Designing Research Projects with a Narrative Approach 4. Ethics and a Narrative Approach 5. Narrative Thinking: Provoking and Sustaining Reflective Thought 6. Collecting Narrative Data 7. Analysing Narrative Data 8. Representative Constructions in Narrative Analysis 9. Reporting Narrative Research References Index 1. Narrative Beginnings : Autobiography, Biography and Fiction 2. What Is Narrative? 3. Designing Research Projects with a Narrative Approach 4. Ethics and a Narrative Approach 5 Narrative Thinking : Provoking and Sustaining Reflective Thought 6. Collecting Narrative Data 7. Analyzing Narrative Data 8. Representative Constructions in Narrative Analysis 9. Reporting Narrative Research.
