Narratives of Varied Everyday Lives and Linked Approaches Conference

NOVELLA (Narratives of Varied Everyday Live and Linked Approaches) is a National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) Node. It conducts research concerned with the everyday practices of families. These are frequently taken for granted, but people's habits and their relation to society are often negotiated within families. Over nearly three years, NOVELLA researchers have conducted secondary analysis on family narratives about a variety of everyday lives and a range of family practices as well as doing some new empirical research on what people do, what they say they do on a range of substantive issues including environment, parenting, food, food blogs and qualitative ‘paradata’. On 7 July 2014 NOVELLA will hold a one day conference at St Catherine’s College, Oxford University to discuss showcase the findings of the research programme, their implications for family identities, practices and policies and the resulting methodological insights. There will be opportunities for both methodological and substantive discussion. The keynote address will be given by the leading international scholar on narrative analysis, Professor Cathy Riessman. Speakers include Dr Janet Boddy, Professor Julia Brannen, Heather Elliott, Dr Rebecca O’Connell, Dr Abigail Knight, Professor Ann Phoenix, Catherine Walker and Joe Winter.