I have just completed (5 mins ago) a revision of the BNIM 'Short Guide' that
I previously circulated. So I'm sending you an updated version (3.1).
Best wishes
Tom
Updated Adverts
NB: Prue Chamberlayne and I have just edited a special number of the
'Journal of Social Work Practice: psychotherapeutic approaches in health,
welfare and the community' (vol.18, no.3, November 2004) on 'Psychosocial
approaches to health and welfare research'. ISSN: 0265-0533. Since we chose
the articles and wrote the editorial, we think it's great!
Three times a year, we also run '5-day Training Intensives' in the UK and
elsewhere for those interested in using
biographic-narrative-interpretive-method (BNIM) interviews in their
research. Do contact me if you or someone you know might be interested.
My last article published for those not allergic to psychodynamic concerns
is
Lynn Froggett and Tom Wengraf. 2004. 'Interpreting interviews in the light
of research team dynamics: a study of Nila's biographic interview'. Critical
Psychology vol.10., 94-122
http://www.centralbooks.co.uk/acatalog/Online_Catalogue_Lawrence___Wishart_4
_647.html#a0853159955
People often ask: please give an example of a single (BNIM) case-study!
One that you can access easily by downloading it from the electronic journal
"FQS" is by me and entitled
"Boundaries and Relationships in Homelessness Work: Lola, an Agency
Manager".
It represents one way of writing up such a case. See it at:
<http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-04/1-04wengraf-e.htm>
If you are interested in the just-concluded multi-method qualitative
evaluation research into the working of a community Healthy Living Centre
in East London that four of us have just finished , our long but with
pictures Report was published at the end of March 2005. Details:
<http://www.uclan.ac.uk/facs/health/socialwork/bromleybybow/index.htm>
Moderately recently published,
a book of vivid socio-biographic case studies from the EU SOSTRIS project
plus
methodological appendices on biographic-narrative method:
Edited by Prue Chamberlayne, Michael Rustin and Tom Wengraf
Biography and Social Exclusion in Europe:
experiences and life journeys
(Bristol: The Policy Press 2002)
for details of this volume, go to
<http://www.bris.ac.uk/Publications/TPP/pages/bm013.htm>
For details of my (doing quite well, twice reprinted) textbook, the title of
which explains itself
Qualitative Research Interviewing:
biographic narrative and semi-structured methods
(London: Sage Publications 2001)
look at
http://WWW.SAGEPUB.CO.UK/printerfriendly.aspx?pid=105244&ptype=B
Final comment is lifted from Michelle Miller-Day at Penn University (to whom
scholarly thanks)
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. "
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