Biographical Research and New Social Architectures

Overview: Theorising the New Social Futures through the Lens of the Past.





Part I Facing the New Turn in Biographical Research: Methodological Adaptations to the New Social Context





Chapter 1. Creative Applications of Biographical Research: Time-Space Interactions in Walking Biographical Methods - Maggie O'Neill and Lyudmila Nurse


Chapter 2. Touching from a Distance: Gaining Intimacy with Research Participants during the COVID-19 Pandemic - Ana Caetano, Magda Nico, Anabela Pereira and Sonia Bernardo Correia


Chapter 3. Collaborative (Auto)ethnography (CAE) for Researching (in) New Social Contexts: Reflections from COVID-19 Lockdown Times in Europe - Lisa Moran and Katerina Sidiropulu-Janku


Chapter 4. Technological Mediation of Biographical Research and Its Risks - Jerzy Stachowiak





Part II Creative, Inter-disciplinary and Comparative Approaches





Chapter 5. Walking New Horizons for Critically Reflexive Pedagogy and Research- Jerry O'Neill


Chapter 6. The 'New Normal' for Oral History? Challenge and Opportunities of Interviewing During the Global Pandemic and Its Aftermath - Jakub Galeziowski


Chapter 7. Relations Between Biographical Dispositions and Teaching Strategies of Computer Science Teachers During Lockdown: Application of Triangulation in Biographical Research - Andre Epp





Part III the Multidimensionality of Vulnerability and Risk in Biographical Research: Ethics, Vulnerabilities and Trauma





Chapter 8. Sharing Biographical Vulnerabilities in the Focus Group Setting: Building Solidarities, De-individualising Racism and Protective Silences-Tamsin Barber and Diana Yeh


Chapter 9. Revising the Researcher's "Borders": The Narrator Demands Expansion of the Researcher's "Presence" in Storytelling - Oksana Zabko


Chapter 10. - Research Opportunities and Challenges During COVID-19 - The Case of Volunteer Firefighters - Fabienne Seifert (Germany)


Chapter 11. Challenging Inequalities with Critical Biographical Research Methods - Ciara Bradley & Lynsey Kavanagh





Epilogue: Biographical Futures: Responding to the New Challenges - Lyudmila Nurse, Maggie O'Neill & Lisa Moran