Nancy Worth & Irene Hardill 
Researching the Lifecourse [EPUB ebook] 
Critical Reflections from the Social Sciences

Introduction ~ Nancy Worth & Irene Hardill;

Part I: Time;

Time and the lifecourse: perspectives from qualitative longitudinal research ~ Bren Neale;

Time in mixed methods longitudinal research: working across written narratives and large-scale panel survey data to investigate attitudes to volunteering ~ Rose Lindsey, Elizabeth Metcalfe & Rosalind Edwards;

A restudy of young workers from the 1960s: researching intersections of work and lifecourse in one locality over 50 years ~ John Goodwin & Henrietta O’Connor;

A method for collecting lifecourse data: assessing the utility of the lifegrid ~ Ann Del Bianco;

Part II: Space & place;

Life geohistories: examining formative experiences and geographies ~ Bisola Falola;

Using mapmaking to research the geographies of young children affected by political violence ~ Bree Akesson;

Keeping in touch: studying the personal communities of women in their fifties ~ Sophie Bowlby;

Triangulation with soft GIS in lifecourse research: situated action possibilities and embodied knowledge ~ Kaisa Schmidt-Thomé;

Part III: Mobilities;

Using a life history approach within transnational ethnography: a case study of Korean New Zealander returnees ~ Jane Yeonjae Lee;

Sensing sense and mobility at the end of the lifecourse: a methodology of embodied interaction ~ Anne Leonora Blaakilde;

Event history approach to life spaces in French-speaking research ~ Françoise Dureau, Matthieu Giroud & Christophe Imbert;

Using an intersectional lifecourse approach to understand the migration of the highly skilled ~ Melissa Kelly.

Irene Hardill is Professor of Public Policy at Northumbria University.