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Breaking Our Duck: Women of a Certain Age Dive into Academic Challenges

Join Angela Olsen and Helen Scholar in exploring the academic challenge of applying for a PhD, stepping out of your comfort zone, and engaging in narrative methods in social sciences. Discover how narratives influence social work, volunteerism, and pathways to prison for women with intellectual disabilities. Delve into the Zelig Effect, epistemology, and methodology, while learning from established researchers and engaging with the Vice Chancellor's Scholarship. This journey includes the Phaedrus dialogue by Plato on the power of writing and speaking, all encompassed within the realm of social science research and storytelling. References include prominent works on narrative research by Czarniawska-Joerges, Foucault, and Reissman & Quinney.

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Breaking Our Duck: Women of a Certain Age Dive into Academic Challenges

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  1. Breaking Our Duck Angela Olsen and Helen Scholar

  2. ‘Women of a certain age’

  3. The academic challenge

  4. Jumping in with both feet • Applying for a PHD • Too big for your own boots! • Say it out loud • Nervous • Why a PhD?

  5. Dipping a toe in the water… • Making use of links with practice – evaluation project • The Vice Chancellor’s Scholarship • Invitations to participate in the work of more established researchers • The ESRC Researcher Development Initiative 2

  6. The ‘Zelig’ Effect( in search of an ‘ology’) Epistemology Methodology

  7. Narrative Methods • Biographical or ‘Narrative Turn’ in social science research • Social workers – dealing with narrative all the time • Narratives and discourse analysis

  8. Narrative – A Qualitative Method

  9. Dress and social work – preparing students for practice Volunteers’ stories – what brings people into organisations, and what keeps them there Women with intellectual disabilities and the forensic services Pathways to prison and other custodial services Listening to the experiences of women, Forensic services, Commissioning agents and other networks… Applications to our research interests

  10. Phaedrus (dialogue between Phaedrus and Socrates) • Socrates: I cannot help feeling, Phaedrus, that writing is unfortunately like painting ... And the same may be said of speeches… when they have been once written down they are tumbled about anywhere among those who may or may not understand them, and know not to whom they should reply, to whom not: and, if they are maltreated or abused, they have no parent to protect them; and they cannot protect or defend themselves. (Plato c.370)

  11. References • Czarniawska-Joerges, B. (2004) Narratives in Social Science Research. Sage. • Foucault, M. (2002). ‘The Archaeology of Knowledge’ Translated by Sheridan Smith, A.M. London; Routledge Classics. • Phaedrus. Translated by B. Jowett http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/texts/phaedrus.html • Reissman, C & Quinney, L. (2005), Narrative in Social Work: A Critical Review. Qualitative Social Work. Vol 4 (4): 391-412

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