Narrative and Arts Research Special Interest Network (NARSIN)
Stimulating interdisciplinary research employing a narrative and/or arts perspective on topics relating to education, social work, counselling, and therapy.
About the Network
Aims of the network
- To be a network for creating and maintaining transdisciplinary connections between researchers and postgraduate students using narrative and artistic methodologies across the Faculty of Arts and Education and the wider University of Auckland.
- For the network to become a place of belonging, experimenting, disseminating and theorising narrative and/or arts-based research.
- To develop and enhance innovative methods to respond to socio-environmental issues.
- To enable the exchange and dissemination of narrative and artistic research through workshops, seminars, and peer support for funding and publishing.
During the Covid-19 pandemic, the group moved online to the Supervision Sharing Space. This is still an active space for supervisors and doctoral students to network and share presentations, publications, or opportunities.
Whom the networking is connecting with
- Masters and PhD students in these domains of narrative and arts in research
- Critical Autoethnography group
- International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry
- Contemporary Ethnography Across the Disciplines
- Arts-based Community and Diverse Economies International community of practice
- Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia
We need innovative, creative methodologies to meet complex issues
Recent publications
- Decolonising an Irish Surname by Working the Hyphen of Gene-Ealogy, by Esther Fitzpatrick and Mike Fitzpatrick
- Intra-active identity stories: How a storm, pine-needle basket, waterfall, and satellite entangle and trouble a creative arts therapist’s ecological and professional identity, by Naomi Pears-Scown
- Poetry, Method and Education Research: Doing Critical, Decolonising and Political Inquiry, edited by Esther Fitzpatrick and Katie Fitzpatrick
- Innovations in Narrative and Metaphor: Methodologies and Practices, edited by Sandy Farquhar & Esther Fitzpatrick
Latest seminars
- Autoethnography and New Materialism - Online seminar and conversation
- A talk with Professor Carolyn Ellis about autoethnography
Our people
Director
Committee members
Communications manager
Other members of the network are connected throughout the University of Auckland.