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PhD group meeting
Posted on February 11, 2019 2 Comments
Here are my current crop of PhD students. The photograph was taken just after we had our regular monthly meeting. This time with Danai talking about her – to be completed this year – PhD work. Danai has conducted three studies, two interviewing veterans and one interviewing their wives. The focus of the first study […]
Narrative workshop
Posted on January 31, 2019 Leave a Comment
We will be running a narrative workshop on 15 February at the University of Nottingham. The workshop is for people interested in narrative generally and the use of narrative in the healing of trauma and similar problems specifically. The workshop will introduce participants to both post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and narrative and provide practice in […]
National Storytelling week
Posted on January 30, 2019 Leave a Comment
It is national storytelling week. See: https://www.awarenessdays.com/awareness-days-calendar/national-storytelling-week-2019/. The Society for Storytelling is promoting its mission regarding the promotion of the oral tradition of storytelling, which was the original (?) way in which linguistically competent humans would communicate sophisticated information to each other. In the modern world that oral tradition has been lost. We rarely practice […]
Trauma and the First World War
Posted on January 25, 2019 Leave a Comment
We are currently embarking on a further round of our AHRC-funded research into the First World War. Further information can be found at the Centre for Hidden Histories website (http://hiddenhistorieswwi.ac.uk/). We are conducting a series of workshops around the country (Birmingham, Omagh, Cardiff and Glasgow) to encourage local groups interested in history to develop projects […]
Landscapes of Trauma
Posted on February 18, 2018 Leave a Comment
I have been writing this book now for about a year and a half. I wish I had the freedom to just sit and write rather than have to do it on top of a full time job, but knowing how little money authors earn I think I will stick with the full time job […]
Dr Nigel Hunt 