This book considers the methodological and theoretical questions associated with the use of life stories, oral histories, personal narratives, autobiographies,

Biographical research may take a range of forms and may vary in its application and approach but has the unified and coherent aim to give ′voice′ to individ

Using Biographical Methods in Social Research provides an informative, comprehensive, accessible and practical guide to the nature and use of biographical metho

"This book explores how narratives are deeply embodied, engaging heart, soul, as well as mind, through varying adult learner perspectives. Biographical research

Studying people’s lives requires acknowledging the multiple entanglements between individual singularity and processes of social patterning. This book testifi