Would it be possible to send these large attachments to the individuals concerned and not to the whole list? Its just that my email at work has a quota limit and if i exceed it all other mail gets bounced
thanks
nigel
----- Original Message -----
From: Tom Wengraf <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 8:51 am
Subject: Re: BNIM trainings in BIOGRAPHIC-NARRATIVE INTERPRETIVE METHOD London 2009
>
>
> Dear Jeff,
>
> Thanks for your note about doing the 5-day BNIM training in June
> 2009. I
> attach a copy of the current 'Guide to BNIM' but the chances are
> that with
> ongoing trainings and research experiences, the 2009 version
> should be
> further improved!
>
> Can you tell me for what research purpose you might envisage using
> BNIM?
> Best wishes
>
> Tom
>
> P.S. On a quite different note, for a quick look at a / community
> tourism /
> study trip / venture in Uganda, click on www.kiafrica.org>.
>
> P.P.S. If you are interested using narrative interviews in social
> research,you can get a free electronic copy of the updated version
> of the 'Guide to
> Biographic Narrative Interpretive Method' by writing to me,
> indicating your
> institutional affiliation and what you might use such narrative
> interviewsfor, and I'll send you the updated current version right
> [log in to unmask]
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Performative Social Science
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Jeff Friedman
> Sent: 22 January 2008 02:52
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: BNIM trainings in BIOGRAPHIC-NARRATIVE INTERPRETIVE
> METHODLondon 2008
>
> Tom
>
> I'm interested in your training, but will be planning to be in the
> UK in
> June 2009. So please keep my address on your list and keep me
> posted for
> next calendar's offerings.
>
> thanks,
> Jeff Friedman
> Rutgers University
>
> > If you are interested in eliciting accounts of lived experience of
> > people's
> > lives and the situations they have passed through or are
> grappling with,
> > you
> > may be interested in BNIM training. Do contact me if you have any
> > questions.
> > A free electronic 'Guide to BNIM' is available on request. Tom.
> > _____
> >
> >
> > Fifteenth to Eighteenth
> >
> > (March, June, November 2008, March 2009)
> >
> > 5-Day Intensive BNIM Research Interview Trainings
> >
> > Biographic-Narrative-Interpretive Method (BNIM)
> >
> > 5 days for 6 people:
> >
> > March 13th and 14th, and 17th to 19th ;
> >
> > June 12th-13th, 16th to 18th; or?November 6th and 7th, 10th-
> 12th; or 2009
> > March 12th-13th, and 16th-18th
> >
> > The value of open-narrative interviewing and insightful
> interpretation is
> > widely recognised, but rather than having to invent the wheel for
> > themselves, many people welcome a systematic immersion into
> principles and
> > procedures that have been shown over two decades and many
> countries to
> > generate high-quality work. An excerpt from an email we received
> from one
> > university may be suggestive:
> >
> >
> >
> > ?? a number of the trainees who graduated this year got top
> awards in
> > their
> > doctorate projects... BNIM and narrative projects were
> considered to be of
> > a
> > particularly high standard by both internal and external
> examiners, and
> > were
> > very well received. The course director was very impressed and
> has told
> > me
> > that the standard of the research of those undertaking these
> projects> (using
> > BNIM) has improved the standard of the whole cohort.?
> >
> >
> >
> > For over nine years in the UK, and more recently in New York
> (USA), in
> > Auckland (NZ), Ljubljana (Slovenia), and Sydney (Australia),
> we have
> > been
> > running BNIM intensive trainings designed for PhD students and
> > postdoctoral
> > researchers in various pure and applied fields. Comments include:
> >
> >
> >
> > Elvin ? A richness beyond what I could imagine.
> >
> >
> >
> > Sian ? Well-balanced, with just enough of each step. It was nice
> to have a
> > number of little thresholds. I like the emphasis on own
> research, and
> > having
> > lots of time for reflection.
> >
> >
> >
> > Mark ? I could go away and practice now. I liked the balance of
> how and
> > why.
> > I really got my head round that and could explain it to someone
> else.>
> >
> >
> > Recently completed PhDs and clinical doctorates by researchers
> using BNIM
> > range over topics such as: reintegration of returning Guatemalan
> refugees;> identity in informal care; men coping with sexual
> abuse; psychosomatic
> > study
> > of breast cancer; love and intimacy; motivation in occupational
> therapy;> South African migrants to NZ; nurses? and health
> visitors? learning and
> > their professional practices; relationship experiences in
> psychosis (such
> > as
> > those of, and with, hearing voices people) and
> hospitalisation,. We know
> > of
> > 18 more PhDs and clinical doctorates in process. Anglophone
> universities> involved include Birmingham, Central Lancashire,
> Dublin, de Montfort, East
> > Anglia, East London, Essex, Exeter, Kings College London, Leeds,
> > Leicester,
> > Massey, Oxford, Oxford Brookes, Plymouth.
> >
> >
> >
> > BNIM assumes that ?narrative? expresses both conscious concerns and
> > unconscious cultural, societal and individual presuppositions and
> > processes.
> > Integrally psycho-societal, it supports research into the lived
> experience> and reflexivity of individuals and collectives,
> facilitating understanding
> > both the ?inner? and the ?outer? worlds of ?historically-evolving
> > persons-in-historically-evolving situations?, and particularly the
> > expectedly surprising interactivity of inner and outer world
> dynamics. It
> > especially serves researchers who need a tool that supports
> understanding> spanning sociological and psychological dynamics
> and structures, and these
> > treated not statically but as situated and affected historically and
> > biographically.
> >
> >
> >
> > Such research provides an innovative base for policy review and
> for better
> > policy and professional or activist practice.
> >
> >
> >
> > When you do the course, you automatically become a member of the
> > <Biographic-narrative-BNIM> email list where news, questions and
> > discussion
> > circulate. Methodology can be lonely without a secure base and
> like-minded
> > people working in the same way as you. The course, the textbook,
> the Short
> > Guide and the email list offer you support in using part or all
> of the
> > BNIM
> > tool-kit in your own work.
> >
> >
> > Summary
> >
> >
> > Designed for PhD students and professional researchers, the course
> > provides
> > a thorough 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 2008 earlybird cost is £650 if paid
> in full
> > by
> > February 1st [May 1st; October 1st]. If paid later, the 2008
> cost is
> > £750.
> > Taught by Prue Chamberlayne and Tom Wengraf in Muswell Hill,
> 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 also the practical capacity for
> > proceeding
> > with the systematic procedures involved in BNIM ? usable both
> for BNIM
> > but
> > also 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). Before the course
> > starts,
> > you are expected to have studied some bits and scanned others of
> the Short
> > Guide to BNIM which will be sent to your email address. This
> > preparing-by-reading means that most of your time during the 5
> days can be
> > spent on clarification and practical exercises, learning-by-doing.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Programme (subject to revision)
> >
> >
> >
> > Thursday and Friday
> >
> > We start with a short introduction to the
> > Biographic-narrative-interpretive
> > method, the history of its development, and to the 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. You get to see
> the value
> > of the 3 quite different subsessions. The bulk of the first two
> days is
> > then
> > almost entirely devoted to learning the craft of BNIM interviewing
> > practice. This involves learning to ask narrative-pointed
> questions> (both
> > open and also focused) and not inadvertently interrupting or
> deflecting> the
> > interviewee. Apparently simple, it rapidly becomes clear that
> such a craft
> > requires repeated and carefully-monitored practice to be
> successfully> achieved. Pencil-and-paper and repeated interview
> practice exercises
> > ensure
> > such success is achieved by the end of the 2nd day.
> >
> >
> >
> > Monday to Wednesday
> >
> > We outline the principles and you engage in the key practices
> of BNIM
> > interpretive work . We explain the importance of the twin
> interpretive> tracks of ?living of the lived life? and ?telling of
> the 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. You see the value of bringing the
> separated> tracks together in an integrated ?case account?.
> Finally, on the basis of
> > case-presentations, you practice systematic case-comparison and the
> > generalising and particularising modelling 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 within your individual
> research> projects, and, given the existence of sceptical research
> and applied
> > policy
> > audiences, how to defend your choice to use such an in-depth
> biographical> research method with a necessarily low-N sample.
> >
> >
> >
> > For an example of BNIM case studies we recommend the European
> Union> seven-country SOSTRIS project (edited) Biography and social
> exclusion in
> > Europe: experiences and life-journeys (2002: Bristol, Policy Press).
> > Other
> > books, articles and reports are listed in the full
> bibliographies of the
> > constantly updated Short Guide to BNIM.
> >
> >
> >
> > To get a copy of the most recent version of the free Short Guide
> to BNIM,
> > to ask any questions or to book a place, contact
> > <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
> >
> > To reserve a place, you need to send us a deposit of £200.
> >
> > To get the 2008 early-bird discount, you need to pay a total of £650
> > before
> > the 1st day of the month before the month in which the course
> runs (i.e.
> > by
> > 1st of February for the course running in March). Otherwise,
> the 2008
> > cost
> > then rises to £750. Reserve early, pay early: make sure of
> getting a
> > place,
> > pay less!
> >
> >
>