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Breaking Our Duck. Angela Olsen and Helen Scholar. ‘Women of a certain age’. The academic challenge. Jumping in with both feet. Applying for a PHD Too big for your own boots! Say it out loud Nervous Why a PhD?. Dipping a toe in the water….
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Breaking Our Duck Angela Olsen and Helen Scholar
Jumping in with both feet • Applying for a PHD • Too big for your own boots! • Say it out loud • Nervous • Why a PhD?
Dipping a toe in the water… • Making use of links with practice – evaluation project • The Vice Chancellor’s Scholarship • Invitations to participate in the work of more established researchers • The ESRC Researcher Development Initiative 2
The ‘Zelig’ Effect( in search of an ‘ology’) Epistemology Methodology
Narrative Methods • Biographical or ‘Narrative Turn’ in social science research • Social workers – dealing with narrative all the time • Narratives and discourse analysis
Dress and social work – preparing students for practice Volunteers’ stories – what brings people into organisations, and what keeps them there Women with intellectual disabilities and the forensic services Pathways to prison and other custodial services Listening to the experiences of women, Forensic services, Commissioning agents and other networks… Applications to our research interests
Phaedrus (dialogue between Phaedrus and Socrates) • Socrates: I cannot help feeling, Phaedrus, that writing is unfortunately like painting ... And the same may be said of speeches… when they have been once written down they are tumbled about anywhere among those who may or may not understand them, and know not to whom they should reply, to whom not: and, if they are maltreated or abused, they have no parent to protect them; and they cannot protect or defend themselves. (Plato c.370)
References • Czarniawska-Joerges, B. (2004) Narratives in Social Science Research. Sage. • Foucault, M. (2002). ‘The Archaeology of Knowledge’ Translated by Sheridan Smith, A.M. London; Routledge Classics. • Phaedrus. Translated by B. Jowett http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/texts/phaedrus.html • Reissman, C & Quinney, L. (2005), Narrative in Social Work: A Critical Review. Qualitative Social Work. Vol 4 (4): 391-412