Researching Family Narratives

Ann Phoenix is Professor of Psychosocial Studies at Thomas Coram Research Unit, UCL Institute of Education. Her research interests are psychosocial, including motherhood, family lives, social identities, young people, racialization and gender. She has particular interests in qualitative and mixed methods, re-use of data and narrative research. Julia Brannen is Emerita Professor of the Sociology of the Family at Thomas Coram Research Unit, UCL Institute of Education. Her research interests include families and intergenerational relations, the work-family interface and food in families. She has a special interest in methodology including mixed methods, comparative cross-national research, biographical approaches. Her most recent book is Social Research Matters (2019). Corinne SQUIRE is Professor of Social Sciences and Co-Director, Centre for Narrative Research, at the University of East London, and Research Associate, University of the Witwatersrand. Her research interests are in subjectivities and popular culture, narrative theory and methods, HIV and citizenship, and refugee politics.

Chapter 1: Researching family narratives Chapter 2: Multi-method approaches in narrative family research across majority and minority worlds Chapter 3: Secondary analysis of narrative data Chapter 4: Carrying out narrative analysis on archival data Chapter 5: Paradata: A narrative secondary analysis Chapter 6: Researching mothers' online blog narratives Chapter 7: Becoming reflexive doctoral researchers: An experiment in collaborative reflexivity using a narrative approach Chapter 8: The ethics of data re-use and secondary data analysis in narrative inquiry Chapter 9: Endnote

An easy to understand resource which is useful for postgraduate students and other people interested in Research. -- Fleur Bowater This is an outstanding contribution to narrative research and the understanding of every day practices in families. Through creative combinations of narrative approaches and methods, the book demonstrates how narrative analysis is a key resource for research in family history, identities and practices. An indispensable work for students and scholars. -- Ann-Dorte Christensen