Masterclass Two - 14 May 2007
Swansea University, Wales, UK
'Beyond words: Biographic Narrative Interpretive Method as a Tool for Understanding Organisations, Professionals and Users in Context'
with Dr *Prue Chamberlayne and Mr **Tom Wengraf
*Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Open University, Milton Keynes. [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
**Visiting Senior Research Fellow, London East Research Institute, University of East London. [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Eliciting and interpreting narratives from users, professionals and managers in organisations is by now valued for qualitative analysis and evaluation. The Biographical-Narrative Interpretive Method (BNIM), based in phenomenology, gestalt theory and symbolic interactionism, is one such method. A key feature of this method lies in its comparison of 'the lived life' and the 'told story', i.e. its focus on discrepancies between self-understanding and behaviour, and on reconnecting policy with lived experience. This Masterclass introduces basic principles and gives an overview of how BNIM has been used especially in health and social care research and evaluation. You will practice BNIM techniques not only of 'open narrative interviewing' but also twin-track, future-blind, chunk-by-chunk 'panel analysis' (including microanalysis) of interview material. To highlight basic BNIM concepts and their policy-relevance, we draw on case-presentations from studies of caring, homelessness and an arts-based community project, including a clip from a training video. We will show how understanding and use of the method has developed in a more psycho-societal direction, with more explicit concepts of historically-situated 'defended subjectivity' and 'defended regimes', together with 'enactment' and counter-transference, and emphasis on imagination and 'syncretistic' skills in interpretation. Discussion time will allow you to raise issues in relation to your own research.
Venue and times
Masterclasses will be held at Swansea University in the School of Medicine,
The Grove Building, Seminar Room 1, (Second Floor), Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP.
Registration 9.30am
First Session 10.00am
Lunch12.30pm-1.30pm
Day ends 4.00pm
If you would like to register please contact Vicky Davies (01792-513407) or email [log in to unmask]
Vicky Davies
Secretary to Professor Frances Rapport
Professor of Qualitative Health Research
'Centre for Health Information, Research and Evaluation' (CHIRAL)
School of Medicine
Swansea University
Singleton Park
Swansea
SA2 8PP
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