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Methods Masterclass Sessions are suitable for both doctoral students and academic staff.

Narrative analytical methodologies provide social researchers with mechanisms and frameworks to explore people’s lived experiences. They allow researchers to gain understanding of how people experience social and material contexts from particular vantage points. Narrative can also be understood as a mechanism through which people examine their lives and render them meaningful. In this session I focus on what narrative ‘is’, what such approaches can ‘do’ and how applying a combined thematic, or what is said; and structural, how it is said analytical approach provides nuanced and rigorous interpretation. I use two research examples to illustrate this – a PhD study focusing on British Women’s Retirement Migration to Spain, and an NIHR funded study focusing on underserved populations’ engagement with healthcare research.

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Prof. Anya Ahmed: Methods Masterclass