Biographical Research and New Social Architectures
What are the building blocks of the new societal architectures after COVID-19? What are the evolving lifestyle patterns, social connections and relationality, and what can biographical research bring to explore these unprecedented societal circumstances?
This first book in the new series Advances in Biographical Research focuses on the place of biographical research in analysing and shaping social futures characterised by physical distancing and isolation, social fragmentation, trauma and vulnerability, including breaks in biographical trajectories.
Written by experienced and early career researchers, it demonstrates how biographical research responds to new societal architectures: theoretically and empirically.
Lyudmila Nurse is Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Education at the University of Oxford, and Research Director of Oxford XXI think tank.
Maggie O’Neill is Professor in Sociology and Criminology and Director of the Institute for Social Sciences in the 21st Century and UCC Futures: Collective Social Futures at University College Cork.
Lisa Moran is Dean of Graduate Studies and Head of the Graduate School at the Technological University of the Shannon.