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Thanks for this Mary. Alec From: Mary Smail [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: 04 November 2011 06:44 To: Grant Alec; [log in to unmask] Subject: RE: Welcome new members Hello Alec and NI Group members active and lurking Just to say thank you for the summary of the first four months of the group. I enjoy the group because it gives space for the human within academic research. Perhaps this echoes the NI process which gives preference to story as the research tool. I value the way there has been honesty and openess to subject matter here and a generous lack of editing. And yes we have been quiet of late. Are we hibernating something or is there a story needing to be written here among us? Happy weekend! Kindly Mary Mary Smail ________________________________ From: Narrative Inquiry where social science meets art [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Alec Grant Sent: 31 October 2011 17:02 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Welcome new members Dear NI, I've been feeling that I ought to write to welcome new list members, and to take stock a bit since the list's been going now for 4 months. I was going to summarise all the discussion strands so far in an email, but this proved to be quite a big job so I gave up after half an hour or so. In any case, it's easy to access the archives from the jiscmail home page (let me know if you have any problems). To be brief the discussion strands so far have ranged around: * Narrative identity (essential selves, contingent selves, performed selves...) * Performative social science (autoethnography, autoethnodrama) * Bhuddism and narrative identity in psychotherapy * Reflexivity (as narrative, performance, teaching it at postgrad level) * Narrative ethics (in research...) I've kickstarted some, but not all, strands, sometimes by attaching pieces of my own work, research and pedagogic, sometimes the work of others. I find my interest in dialogic narrative inquiry applies to my contributions. I often explicitly try to balance concrete postings (of others and myself) with theoretical, methodological or empirical ones. I think the list has been beneficial so far in: * Building up a virtual community... * The current and future development of a NI writers collective, due to have a first meeting in London in early Sept. * Helping list members move their scholarly and research thinking forward. * The fact that people have felt increasingly safe to share. * Offshoots like a national/poss international autoethnography workshop proposed for hosting at the Uni of Brighton in Nov 2012. * ?? The downsides, for me: * There seem to be more lurkers than active participants in the group (we have over 20 members now). From participation in other groups in the past, maybe this is understandable. And maybe 'lurkers' is a crude label which doesn't capture the nuanced reasons for people keeping quiet? * Everything's gone a bit quiet in recent weeks. I'm always tempted to bung in a new strand, with attachments, but that feels a bit contrived now so I'm resisting doing this. Maybe this posting is a bit of a devious way of starting a jnew strand (just realised this. Duh!). What do people think (ha ha)? best, Alec Grant Dr Alec Grant School of Nursing and Midwifery (SNM) University of Brighton Robert Dodd Building (RD105) 49 Darley Road Eastbourne BN20 7UR email: [log in to unmask] phone: 01273-643100 mobile: 07813-332537 http://www.brighton.ac.uk/snm/contact/details.php?uid=ad84 ___________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by MessageLabs' Email Security System on behalf of the University of Brighton. For more information see http://www.brighton.ac.uk/is/spam/ ___________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by MessageLabs' Email Security System on behalf of the University of Brighton. For more information see http://www.brighton.ac.uk/is/spam/ ___________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by MessageLabs' Email Security System on behalf of the University of Brighton. For more information see http://www.brighton.ac.uk/is/spam/ ___________________________________________________________