Doing Narrative Research

Molly Andrews is Professor of Political Psychology, and Co-director of the Centre for Narrative Research (www.uelac.uk/cnr/index.htm) at the University of East London. Her research interests include the psychological basis of political commitment, psychological challenges posed by societies in transition to democracy, patriotism, conversations between generations, gender and aging, and counter-narratives. Her current research is on biographical and political change in former East Germany. She is the author of Lifetimes of Commitment: Aging, Politics, Psychology and Shaping History: Narratives of Political Change, both published by Cambridge University Press. Narratives of Everyday Life will be published by Oxford University Press in 2013. Corinne Squire is Professor of Social Sciences and Co-Director of the Centre for Narrative Research, University of East London. Her research interests are in HIV and citizenship, popular culture and subjectivities, and narrative theories and methods. Publications include What is Narrative Research? (Centre for Narrative Research, Bloomsbury, 2013), HIV Technologies in International Perspective (with Davis, Palgrave, 2010); HIV in South Africa (Routledge, 2007) and Public Emotions (with 6, Radstone and Treacher, Palgrave, 2006). Maria Tamboukou (BA, MA, PhD) is Professor of Feminist Studies, and co-director of the Centre for Narrative Research at the University of East London, UK. Her research activity develops in the areas of critical feminisms, auto/biographical narratives and neo-materialist analytics. Writing feminist genealogies is the central focus of her work. She is the author of four monographs and co-editor of three volumes on narrative and ethnographic research methods, including Doing Narrative Research, Beyond Narrative Coherence and Dangerous Encounters: Genealogy and Ethnography.