Narrative Analysis

Natasha Mauthner is a Professor of Social Science Philosophy and Method and Director of Research at the Newcastle University Business School. She received her BA in Psychology and PhD in Social and Political Sciences from the University of Cambridge. Following a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University, she held academic positions at the universities of Edinburgh and Aberdeen. In 2017, she was elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in recognition of her methodological innovation in qualitative research. Her research explores the implications of a feminist posthumanist turn for the philosophy, methodology, ethics, and politics of inquiry in the social sciences. She has published on feminist philosophy of science and methodology, qualitative research, and research ethics; gender, work, and family; perinatal mental health; data sharing and big data; and technology and social change. She is author of The Darkest Days of My Life: Stories of Postpartum Depression (Harvard University Press, 2002).