Ann Phoenix - Researching Family Narratives

Molly Andrewsis Professor of Political Psychology, and Co-director of the Centre for Narrative Research at the University of East London and the Jane and Aatos Erkko Visiting Professor at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies 20192020. Her research interests include political narratives, the psychological basis of political commitment, political identity, and patriotism and intergenerational dialogue.Janet Boddyis Professor of Child, Youth and Family Studies in the Centre for Innovation and Research in Childhood and Youth at the University of Sussex (www.sussex.ac.uk/esw/circy). Her research is concerned with family lives and with services for children and families, in the UK and internationally. She has a particular interest in research ethics, and in cross-national and qualitative methodologies.Julia Brannenis Emerita Professor of the Sociology of the Family at Thomas Coram Research Unit, University College London (UCL) Institute of Education (IOE). Her research interests include families and intergenerational relations, the workfamily interface and food in families. She has a special interest in methodology, including mixed methods, comparative cross-national research and biographical approaches. Her most recent book is Social Research Matters (2019).Rosalind Edwardsis Professor of Sociology at the University of Southampton, UK. She is a co-editor of the International Journal of Social Research Methodology, and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. She has researched and published widely in the area of family studies and qualitative research methodologies, including co-authoring Challenging the Politics of Early Intervention (2017) and co-developing the breadth-and-depth method for working with large amounts of qualitative data.Heather Elliottis an independent researcher and writer, working across academia, public and charitable sectors. She specialises in work on equalities and with seldom-heard communities, and in creative and narrative methodologies. She was a senior researcher on three of the NOVELLA projects.Abigail Knightis an Honorary Senior Research Associate at the Thomas Coram Research Unit, University College London (UCL) Institute of Education (IOE), where she was previously a Lecturer in Sociology and Research Officer. She specialises in carrying out qualitative research with children and families, including using narrative and archival methods. She has published in journals such as Children and Society, Oral History, and Families, Relationships and Societies.Virginia Morrowis Visiting Professor, Social Science Research Unit and Thomas Coram Research Unit, Department of Social Science, University College London (UCL) Institute of Education (IOE), London, UK and Research Associate, Young Lives, Department of International Development, University of Oxford. Her research has explored children's work, sociological approaches to the study of childhood and children's rights, the ethics of social research with children, violence affecting children, children's understandings of family and children's social capital.Rebecca O'Connellis a Reader in the Sociology of Food and Families at the Thomas Coram Research Unit, University College London (UCL) Institute of Education (IOE). She is co-author, with Julia Brannen, of Food, Families and Work (2016), and with Abigail Knight and Julia Brannen, of Living Hand to Mouth: Children and Food in Low-income Families (2019). She has expertise in mixed and qualitative methods.Ann Phoenixis Professor of Psychosocial Studies at Thomas Coram Research Unit, University College London (UCL) Institute of Education (IOE). Her research interests are psychosocial, including motherhood, family lives, social identities, young people, racialisation and gender. She has particular interests in qualitative and mixed methods, reuse of data and narrative research.Corinne Squireis Professor of Social Sciences and Co-Director, Centre for Narrative Research at the University of East London, and Research Associate, University of the Witwatersrand. Her research interests are in subjectivities and popular culture, narrative theory and methods, HIV and citizenship, and refugee politics.Uma Vennamis Rector and Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Sri Padmavati Mahila Visvavidyalayam (SPMVV), the Women's University in Tirupati, India, where she is also Professor of Social Work. She led the Young Lives qualitative research in India. Previously, she has been involved in various projects dealing with rural livelihoods and poverty alleviation, HIV/AIDS, child labour and children's work, and the trafficking of women and children, working with various international agencies, including Department for International Development (DFID), United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Bank.Catherine Walkeris a Teaching Fellow in Human Geography at University of Birmingham, and Honorary Research Fellow of the Sustainable Consumption Institute, University of Manchester. Since completing her PhD on the NOVELLA node, Catherine has further developed her interests in children and young people's environmental concerns and engagements with sustainability through research projects in Brazil and the UK, and teaching in sociology and human geography.Joe Wintercontinues to draw on narrative methods in his applied therapeutic work and ongoing training in psychotherapy. Since completing his PhD on NOVELLA, Joe has worked as a Clinician in Children's Social Care in Cambridge and is now working as a Family and Relationship Counsellor for Relate, as well as teaching in the Psychology Department at Anglia Ruskin University.