Fwd: Graduate Research Seminar, 27 November: Revisiting 'Young Lives' interview data with a narrative lens

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Seminars in Narrative Research

The Centre for Narrative Research, University of East London and

the NOVELLA ESRC Research Node, Institute of Education and UEL


Revisiting 'Young Lives' interview data with a narrative lens:

What insights does a narrative analytic approach offer to children's 
talk about everyday life and growing up in Andhra Pradesh, India?



Catherine Walker, NOVELLA, TCRU, IoE



Tuesday November 27th, 5.00-6.30

                     The Library, Thomas Coram Research Unit, 
Institute of Education,

                         University of London, 27-8 Woburn Square, 
London WC1H OA


In this presentation I aim to present some insights from secondary 
narrative analysis that I am currently carrying out on qualitative 
data collected in Andhra Pradesh, India, as part of Young Lives, an 
international study of childhood poverty in four countries based at 
the Department of International Development, Oxford 
University.  Through applying a narrative lens to the data by looking 
at the stories told by children in co-construction with other family 
members, peers and research investigators, I aim to explore 
connections between personal narratives and cultural narratives 
associated with boys' and girls' changing responsibilities over time 
in family life in rural and urban Andhra Pradesh.  I will also look 
at how the personal narratives identified may illuminate, trouble or 
extend themes identified in my initial readings of the data and in 
doing so consider what a narrative lens offers to the analytic 
process and to the interpretations reached. The presentation will be somewhat
  exploratory in nature, as the work presented is still in progress, 
and I welcome feedback from those who attend.

Catherine Walker is a second year doctoral student based at the 
Thomas Coram Research Unit, IOE. Through secondary analysis and 
primary data collection in India and the UK, Catherine's research 
aims to explore the environmental conditions, ideals and practices of 
a small number of children in two countries, with attention to how 
children in different social classes and rural and urban areas make 
sense of environmental ideals and how these relate to their everyday 
lives and imagined futures. Catherine's PhD research is linked to 
'Family Lives and the Environment', a constituent project of the ESRC 
National Centre for Research Methods Node 'NOVELLA' (Narratives of 
Varied Everyday Life and Linked Approaches). Before taking up this 
PhD position, Catherine completed an MSc in Globalisation and Latin 
American Development at the Institute for the Study of the Americas, 
London School of Advanced Study, where for her final dissertation 
she  carried out independent research into young people's
  participation in the design of environmental education programmes 
in Brazil. Catherine also has a BA (Hons) degree in Hispanic Studies 
from the University of Nottingham.



All welcome, especially graduate students.  For further details 
contact Corinne Squire (c.squire at uel.ac.uk 
<mailto:c.squire at uel.ac.uk> ) or Rowena Lamb (r.lamb at ioe.ac.uk 
<mailto:r.lamb at ioe.ac.uk>  ). Details are also on the CNR website: 
http://www.uel.ac.uk/cnr/home.htm <http://www.uel.ac.uk/cnr/home.htm>  .

   
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