Past Visiting Research Fellows

2009/10
Tom Wengraf - studied Modern History at Magdalen College, Oxford; Sociology at the LSE; and (later) Contemporary Cultural Studies at Birmingham University. His areas of social research specialisation have been suppressive and emancipatory pedagogy in universities and other institutions; imperialism and constrained liberation in societies; and mixed (mostly qualitative) methodology in psycho-societal research. Previously involved in New Left Review and the Conference of Socialist Economists, he also contributed to the 1968 May Day Manifesto. More recently he contributed to the BNIM-based EU-funded project Social Strategies in Risk Society (SOSTRIS) and to a recent three-year psycho-social study of a Healthy Living Centre in Bromley-by-Bow, London. He has published Qualitative Research Interviewing: biographic narrative and other methods Sage 2001) and currently runs training intensives and consultancy in biographic-narrative interpretive method (BNIM).  He distributes a BNIM Short Guide and Detailed Manual to anybody interested. He is a founder member of the UK Psychosocial Studies Network and on the editorial board of the Journal for Social Work Practice.
Professor Gail A. Hornstein (Mount Holyoke College)

2008/09
Dr James Goodman (University of Technology: Sydney)
Dr Antu Sorainen (Cristina Institute for Women's Studies, University of Helsinki)
Professor Carol Johnson (University of Adelaide)

2007/08
Professor Agnes Bolsø (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)
Dr Chiara Bertone (University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy)