I sympathise with your surprise! (shock
horror probe). However, most PhD students seem to be able to get their
universities departments to pay for this component of their professional
training. Obviously we don’t hear from the others.
Best wishes
Tom
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Subject: A new interviewing method
- BNIM - Biographic-narrative-interpretative method - interested?
Ninth
(June 06) Intensive BNIM Short Course
in the
Biographic-Narrative-Interpretive Method (BNIM)
5 days
for 6 people: June 15th and 16th, and 19th-21st 2006 in
BM__Toc5341422BM__Toc125193666Summary
Designed
for PhD students and professional researchers, the course
provides a training in doing BNIM
biographic narrative interviews,
together with
‘hands-on experience’ of following BNIM interpretation
procedures. Students develop
a sense of how their own research projects
might use such aspects
and components. The cost is £650 (£600 for
early-birds who pay in full 5 weeks
in advance, i.e. by May 1st ).
Taught by Prue Chamberlayne and Tom
Wengraf in North London., the
course’s small number
of students ensures close coaching and support
for the intensive work that is
needed for you to fully acquire both the
understanding of principles
and the practical capacity for proceeding
with the systematic practices
involved in BNIM -- both for BNIM and
for other types of narrative
interviewing and interpretation.
You will
be expected to have looked at (not read!) chapters 6 and 12
of Tom’s textbook,
Qualitative research interviewing: biographic
narrative and semi-structured
method (2001: Sage Publications), Examples
of the use of BNIM can be found in
the case-studies from the European
Union 7-country SOSTRIS
project in our (edited) Biography and social
exclusion in Europe: experiences
and life-journeys (2002: Policy Press)
and other items in this Short Guide
to BNIM . Preliminary and
supplementary material will be
provided. More recent debates and
developments in theory and method
are integrated into the programme.
Before the course starts, you are
expected to have studied the most
recent version of the Short Guide
to BNIM which will be sent to your
email address.
Programme
(subject to revision)
Thursday
15th– Friday 16h June 2006
We start
with a short introduction to the
Biographic-narrative-interpretive
method, a very brief history of its
development in
principles behind its practice.
The point and timing of using
open-ended biographic narrative
interviews rather than (only) the more
conventional semi-structured and
attitude-and-argument focused ones is
clarified. The bulk of
the two days is then almost entirely devoted to
learning the craft of BNIM
interviewing practice. This involves
learning to ask narrative-pointed
questions (both topic-focused and
also open) and not inadvertently
interrupting or deflecting the
interviewee. Apparently simple, it
rapidly becomes clear that such a
craft requires repeated and careful
practice to be successfully
achieved. Pencil-and-paper
and repeated practical exercises ensure such
success is achieved by the end of
the 2nd day.
Monday
19th- Wednesday 21th June 2006
We
outline the principles and you engage in the key practices of BNIM
interpretive work . We explain the
twin-tracks of ‘lived life’ and ‘told
story’ analysis, and
micro-analysis, and how you convert the raw
transcript into two series of
processed data for each track. You learn
the significance of the
future-blind chunk-by-chunk approach peculiar to
BNIM by practice – by doing
parts of a narrative text analysis, a
micro-analysis
and biographical data analysis. Finally, on the basis
of case-presentations, you practice
case-comparison and the comparative
theorising towards which BNIM work
is typically oriented. The course
ends with our looking again at how
you might best use all or part of the
BNIM approach for your individual
research projects, and how to defend
your choice to use a low-N in-depth
sample in arguments with sceptical
research and policy audiences.
To get a
copy of the ‘Short Guide’, to ask any questions or to book a
place, contact
tend to go quite fast, so if
interested, please don’t delay too long!
Provided there are still places
left, £100 refundable deposit secures
your place on the course of your
choice.
Tenth
course: (5 day or maybe 9 day 3+3+3) in/from February 2007
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