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A biographical research approach [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
This chapter explains the methodological foundations of the study on the personal lives of megaproject leaders studied in this book. To capture an in-depth understanding of career transitions and work identities of people leading megaprojects we used a biographical research method.
van Marrewijk, Alfons   +3 more
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Biographical Research Methods

2005
VOLUME ONE: TIME AND BIOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH PART ONE: 'THE PLACE OF HISTORY' Uses of History - C Wright Mills 'Peasants and Workers' - John Madge Life Record of an Immigrant - Wladek Wiszniewski Biographieanalyse eines Mullerlebens - Fritz Schutze Biographical Research and Historical Watersheds - Robert Miller, Robin Humphrey and Elena Zdravomyslova ...
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Creative applications of biographical research: time–space interactions in walking biographical methods

What are the challenges for theorising, experiencing and doing biographical research in post-pandemic time, a time that was characterised by social, physical/material distancing, isolation and, for some, ruptures to the biographical trajectory? Physical distancing altered and narrowed the nature of space/time of social interactions; it brought billions
Maggie O’Neill, Lyudmila Nurse
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Editorial: Biographical methods in migration research

MIGRATION LETTERS, 2009
During the last decades, qualitative biographical/narrative methods gained a prominent position within the spectrum of social science methodology and research practice, mainly due to a reaction to the positivist-empiricist dominance and associated views of social reality. After an initial interest to biographical methods, which followed the edition of ‘
THEODOROS IOSIFIDES, DEBORAH SPORTON
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Biographical Research in Hungary

2017
In our paper we examine the emergence and status of qualitative sociology in Hungary. We wish to show that the first steps in qualitative research were not taken by sociologists but by a group of literary/fiction writers who appeared to be sensitive to sociological problems.
Anna Lujza Szász, Júlia Vajda
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Biographical Research and the Meanings of Mothering

2023
What does mothering mean in different cultures and societies? This book extensively applies biographical and narrative research methods to mothering from international perspectives. Considering self-care, rapport, trust and self-reflection, the collection advances methodological practice in the study of mothers, carers and childless women's lives.
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Biographical research in Italy

2023
The chapter presents a short history of biographical methods in Italy, mainly with an educational viewpoint but with an interest to demonstrate the connections between biographical research and the birth of disciplines. It starts by establishing an epistemological frame based on critical reflexivity, that requires positioning the author, to avoid any ...
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“Ethics and Clinical Research” in Biographical Perspective

Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 2016
Henry K. Beecher (1904-1976) played an important role in the development of bioethics. His 1966 article "Ethics and Clinical Research" in the New England Journal of Medicine intensified concern about the welfare of patients participating in clinical research, and his leadership in the 1968 Harvard Ad Hoc Committee on Brain Death redefined the ...
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