EP035 | Narrative, storytelling, and a social science research project on Brexit and Britons living in the EU-27

Brexit Brits Abroad

This episode focusses on narrative and storytelling, focussing on the question of how we do justice to the what people have told us in the way we write and communicate the findings of the project. We focus on the importance, for us, of locating accounts of Brexit within the context of people’s lives, a concern that is at once about the ethics and politics of representation. As we discuss, these reflections are all the more important on a project that has used multiple methods, where people have written their own narratives, and provided alternative, creative accounts of their lives. And in closing the episode, we discuss why narrative and storytelling are important for qualitative research.