CCRI will be hosting the 2025 European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, 'Qualitative Inquiry: Hope, Humility and Playfulness in a Precarious World', Tuesday 7 January – Friday 10 January, Edinburgh. Save the dates! Website live at the end of April, call for abstracts open 20 May.

April's First Thursday seminar is this week! 'What does being ‘relational’ in therapy mean?' with Linda Finlay, in person and via Zoom, Thursday 4 April, 4.30pm-5.45pm. Join us if you can! ed.ac.uk/health/events/…

If you've published a book in 2022 or 2023 - or read one you've loved that's been published then - go on, nominate it for the 2024 International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry Book Award. Deadline for nominations 24 November. Please share.
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'Telling Difficult Stories: Posthuman Postgraduate Research in Times of Crises' - 16 June - 'a creative, affirmative event for strengthening and embracing the posthuman postgraduate research community in the UK'. britsoc.co.uk/events/key-bsa…

The call for papers for the 2024 European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry is now out. Let's go!
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First Thursday seminar, 4 May, 4.30pm-5.45pm: 'Stories from the edge: haunting, slow death, and the cruel optimism of suicide prevention', with Amy Chandler, both in person and live online; and we'll record. We hope you can join us! eventbrite.co.uk/e/620866076147

Miltos Hadjiosif's First Thursday seminar tomorrow (Thursday 6 April), in person and live online (no recording), 4.30pm-5.45pm UK time: 'Seduction, resistance and the value of the ‘Anvil’: Finding my way into autoethnography'. Join us if you can! eventbrite.co.uk/e/596886572807

The author copies of my book have arrived! Thanks to all who have supported this project! Written in Edinburgh, Salford, Mexico City, and other locations over the past few years. Fancy some champagne?
*Art by the fab Eleonora Scalise.
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A big shout-out for marisa andrade costa for this international award success

Miltos Hadjiosif's First Thursday seminar, in person and live online (no recording), coming up on Thursday 6 April, 4.30pm-5.45pm: 'Seduction, resistance and the value of the ‘Anvil’: Finding my way into autoethnography'. Hope you can join us! eventbrite.co.uk/e/596886572807

Still a few spaces left! Tomorrow evening in Edinburgh eventbrite.co.uk/e/505035543907

Another cool CCRI event next week! In Edinburgh, Tuesday 17 January, 4.30pm:'Hazing, booze, and bedrooms: An autoethnography of gendered violence and consent in Australian university residential colleges', with Liz Mackinlay eventbrite.co.uk/e/507416194497

This is an invite to the launch of my book Narrative Portraits in Qualitative Research. 19/01 at 17:45 hrs at the Scottish Storytelling Centre in Edinburgh, hosted by CCRI Research
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It would be great to see you there!

First Thursday seminar on 1 December with J. Karen Serra U.,'Betraying our best intentions: on the need to interrogate how we relate and what it produces', in person and live online, 4.30pm-5.45pm. Join us! Plus we'll record. eventbrite.co.uk/e/466266614997

The wonderful Donata Puntil on 'Language matters: embodied narratives in-with-through language/s in psychotherapy' - November's 1st Thursday seminar recording here: ed.ac.uk/health/researc…

If you missed October's First Thursday seminar organised with @claudiakincaidr, the recording is now available. Hannah Zeavin on 'The distance cure: COVID-19 and the future of therapeutic work'. Excellent! ed.ac.uk/health/researc…

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November's First Thursday seminar is with Donata Puntil on 'Language matters: Embodied narratives in-with-through language/s in psychotherapy'. Join us (online only) on Thursday 3 November , 4.30pm-5.45pm UK time

Call for chapters - 'Looking death in the eye': Autoethnographic perspectives on death and end of life events sway.office.com/eTDkQHmDoNFrqB…

New First Thursday (and sometimes second Thursday) seminar series! First event, co-organised with @claudiakincaid and Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture & Society: Thursday 13 October: Hannah Zeavin on 'The Distance Cure: COVID-19 & the Future of Therapeutic Work'
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CCRI is being reviewed by the uni in October: so... what does CCRI mean to you? How has its presence and/or its activities affected you and/or your work? What would you want CCRI to be and do over the coming years? pls email [email protected]