Centre for Narrative Research in the Social Sciences, University of East London

 

to think is to experiment

Wednesday, 28th April, 2004, Barking Campus, Room:N025

 

Research Day Programme

9.30-10.00

Coffee- Registration

 

10.00-10.30

 

Lose your head and see who you really are:  Douglas Harding’s “headless way” - implications for psychology.

 

Toni Brennan & James Walsh, University of East London

 

10.30-11.00

 

Confinement in Context: Four Generations of Childbirth Stories

Ruth Silver, University of East London

 

   11.00-11.30

 

Participatory Action Research in a community development setting – obstacles and opportunities

Stefanie Buckner, University of Central Lancashire

11.30-11.45

Tea-Coffee

 

11.45-12.15

 

Affective Structures of Emotional Disclosure.  A study of some of the possible psychophysical and linguistic modifications due to repeated emotional disclosures.

Darren Ellis, Loughborough University

 

12.15-12.45

 

The body in psychopathology

Ian Tucker, Loughborough University

 

12.45-13.15

Desiring dissent/dissenting desires: the politics of negotiating everyday spaces, geographies and inner worlds in the art of the Chinese diaspora.

Diana Yeh, University of East London

     13.15-14.00

Lunch

 

14.00- 14.30

 

Why should I care? An educarer’s personal narrative in a climate of political spin

Jayne Osgood, London Metropolitan University

 

14.30-15.00

 

The effects of gender on the employment of classroom-based support staff in schools

Frank Bonner

15.00-15.15

Tea-Coffee

 

 

15.15-15.45

 

Fertility Related Discourses and Female Subjectivity: Narratives of Professional Women

Merryn Smith: University of Cardiff Wales

 

15.45-16.00

 

Turkish Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Sector and the European Information Society: Innovation for Integration?

Aygen Sibel  Kurt University of East London

 

16.00-16.30

 

Feminism, Women’s Organisations and Civil Society in Turkey

Cigdem Esin, University of East London

 

16.30-17.00

 

Reception and discussion