Narrative Research in Practice Stories from the Field

Rachael Dwyer is a research fellow at the Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University. Her research interests include teacher education, assessment in higher education, research pedagogy, critical pedagogy and narrative inquiry. Rachael’s new book “Music teachers’ values and beliefs” will be published with Ashgate/Taylor and Francis in 2016.

Ian Davis has been an educator for the past fifteen years, with a primary interest in Narrative Masculinity and Education. Ian has worked at both Sydney University and now Griffith University with the Institute for Educational Research. Before moving to Australia he worked in London at Croydon College of Higher Education where he was the Head of the Critical and Theoretical Studies Department andbefore that as a Lecturer in the Education Studies Department. Ian has a new book, “Stories of Men and Teaching,” which is being published by Springer.

elke emerald is a Senior Lecturer at Griffith University School of Education and Professional Studies. Her primary interest is in the construction of identities in social life, and her current research pursuits fall within the theoretical and methodological frame of narrative inquiry, presently exploring autoethnography and sensory narrative and more recently inspired by literary and artistic forms of representation.