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Narrative Studies Group Training Course

Biographic Narrative Interpretive Method (BNIM): Intensive Training Course in Narrative Interviewing and Interpretation

DATE: November 19th-25th 2009

VENUE: Ballyvaughan College of Art, Ballyvaughan, Co. Clare

The Biographic Narrative Interpretive Method (BNIM) utilises systematic textbook-backed principles and procedures to guide open-narrative interviewing and insightful interpretation. For over nine years in the UK, and more recently in New York (USA), Auckland (NZ), Ljubljana (Slovenia), and Sydney (Australia), Prue Chamberlayne and Tom Wengraf have been running BNIM intensive training courses designed for PhD students and postdoctoral researchers (both individuals and research teams) in various theoretical and applied fields.

Following a short introductory course to the BNIM, which took place in 2008, Tom Wengraf and Prue Chamberlayne returned to work with the NUIG Narrative Studies Group in November 2009. Taking place at the Burren College of Art, Ballyvaughan Co. Clare, from 19-25th November, a week-long intensive training course was attended by members of the NUIG narrative studies group, as well as by visiting participants from the University of Limerick, University College Dublin, and the University of Sheffield, UK.

Attending the BNIM course in Ballyvaughan: Tom Wengraf; Tanya Watson;
Catherine Conlon; Jonathan Heaney; Martin McNamara; Prue Chamberlayne;
Maria Feeney; Dinah Bisdee; Aine Macken-Walsh; Alison Ledger; Ricca Edmondson.

This NUIG Narrative Studies Group event was supported by Teagasc’s Rural Economy Research Centre (RERC) and NUI Galway’s Irish Centre for Rural Transformation and Sustainability (ICERTS).

Further information is available from Tom Wengraf (tomtomwengraf.com), Anne Byrne (anne.byrnenuigalway.ie), or Áine Macken-Walsh (aine.mackenwalshteagasc.ie)

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