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EdRes would like to welcome you to an occasional series of in person, informal lunchtime chats around different ideas and issues in educational research.

We call these “What is….?” chats because each session will focus on a member of EdRes (or our wider community) offering to discuss something they are passionate about with a group of interested colleagues. We welcome people who know nothing about the topic, but are just curious to find out – “What is…?”

Bring your lunch, your Tupperware and your tartan thermos! Though teas and coffees will be provided.

“In the third of our ‘What is…’ series, Kathy Chandler will introduce voice-centred relational method (VCRM), an approach to narrative analysis that reflects a relational ontology. It is a flexible, feminist approach to analysis first developed by the psychologist Carol Gilligan, who termed it 'The Listening Guide'. It has subsequently been developed by others for use in multiple contexts, including educational research. VCRM aims to hear different voices within the data and is best known for the second stage of the process, which creates what are known as 'I poems'.

If you would like to, please bring along some of your own qualitative data, such as a section of an interview transcript, so that you can try out this approach for yourself during the session. We hope to see you there!”