Centre for Narrative Research

Postgraduate Programmes in Narrative Research

2012-2013

The Narrative Research postgraduate
programmes at CNR are uniquely
interdisciplinary. They draw on social
sciences, humanities and arts disciplines
to provide advanced and comprehensive
education and training in narrative theories
and methods. The programmes give students experience in applying narrative concepts and analysis to diverse fields. They guide students through the planning and performance of their own narrative research. Masters and Diploma programmes also develop more general skills of review, criticism and research, in the context of narrative work.

The programmes are taught by prominent scholars based at the Centre for Narrative Research, an international leader in the field of narrative research in the social sciences, arts and humanities. CNR also runs many seminars, conferences and masterclasses, and hosts eminent international visitors. Students are encouraged to participate in this wider research community.

Students from the programmes have gone on to MPhils, PhDs and lectureships, careers in social work, teaching and psychology, and to work with international NGOs, advertising agencies, management teams, and arts organisations. Students have used their work in the programmes to write reports, papers for publication in international peer reviewed journals, and a number of books.

Image detail: courtesy of Cigdem Esin

Narrative Research Postgraduate Programmes at CNR

Four modules and a dissertation yield a Masters in Narrative Research

This year, the New London Graduate School is offering AHRC studentships for programmes including the Masters in Narrative Research: http://www.uel.ac.uk/nlgs/index.htm#Studentships Closing date: April 30.

Four modules (including other choices from the School of Social Sciences, Media and Cultural Studies graduate programme) constitute a Postgraduate Diploma in Narrative Research
Two modules give a Postgraduate Certificate in Narrative Research
Students passing one module gain an Associate Postgraduate Certificate in Narrative Research.

Narrative Research

Starting September 2012, by distance learning, with onsite and online tutorials

This module provide students with an overview of the range of narrative research methodologies. Beginning with an exploration of the meaning of narrative, the module outlines Labovian methods, biographical methods and context-oriented methods. It then considers three key fields of narrative research: oral, personal narratives; written narratives (including autobiographies and letters); and visual narratives. Through a range of theoretical perspectives, we shall be attempting to address a number of questions; for instance: How do people come to see themselves as distinct subjects about whom a story can be told? What role do memory, ideology, sense of audience, etc. play in people's accounts of their lives? How do class, ethnicity, gender and other social characteristics shape the stories people tell? What do we look for when we analyze accounts of people's lives?

Narrative Force

Starting February 2013 by distance learning

Narrative Force is the second module in the new Distance Learning Postgraduate Certificate in Narrative Research and focuses on elements of narrative research relating to Foucauldian and Deleuzian analysis. In this module, students will examine, discuss critically evaluate and apply discourse analysis in narrative research. The main topics of study will be:
· Genealogical approaches to narrative research
· Modalities of power and desire in narrative analysis
· Narratives as discursive sites for the production of knowledge
· Narratives as technologies of the self
· Spatial narratives
· Time, Memory and Narratives
· Politics, Imagination, Narratives
· Narratability and the Self
· Interfaces between Visual and Textual Narratives
Narrative Force Module Flyer

For further information, please contact

Prof Corinne Squire E-mail: c.squire@uel.ac.uk

and see http://www.uel.ac.uk/cnr/ma-narrative.htm And http://www.uel.ac.uk/dl/programmes/module_info/cert_narr_res.htm

Alternatively, contact the Distance Learning Advice Team on: distance.learning@uel.ac.uk /

tel: +44 (0)20 8223 2564

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