Narrative, Culture and Community Research Centre

Description

The Narrative, Culture and Community Research Centre defines narrative very broadly and is concerned with examining it as a structuring mechanism across multiple media and disciplines. In addition, the Centre is also interested in exploring how narrative interacts with and impacts on cultures and communities. As an interdisciplinary research centre, it brings together a range of diverse approaches and methodologies from members across the University.

Since its inception in 2008 the Narrative Research Group has provided an inclusive and supportive space for staff, early career researchers and post-graduate students from multiple disciplines who approach narrative from a range of methodological, critical and creative perspectives. The new Centre, launched in 2019, provides an organisational structure for members’ research and professional practice activities, including funding bids, publications, seminars, workshops, and conferences.

It also aims to ensure that the development of research proceeds in a strategically informed way, providing support for individual researchers and encouraging new initiatives.

The following represents current staff and research student areas of interest and expertise. The Centre welcomes applications from prospective students wishing to pursue research in these areas. Staff from NCCR also teach on several MA courses at BU, including MA English and Literary Media and MA Creative Writing and Publishing.

• Digital writing and reading
• Life factual/real-life narratives
• Screenwriting
• Adaptation
• Transmedia storytelling
• Comics/sequential art
• Medical Humanities
• Memory Studies
• Book history and publishing
• Fans and online communities
• Crime fiction
• Gender and sexuality
• Community media
• Writing/autofiction

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No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.

Founding year

2019

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Bournemouth University
Poole