Stories, Storytellers, and Storytelling

Tom Vine is an Associate Professor at Suffolk Business School, UK, where he leads the PhD programme. He is an ethnographer and organization theorist with specific interests in agency, belief, complexity and paradox. When he's not grappling with Nietzsche, Tom enjoys charity shop crawls, restoring old boats, and cold water swimming in the rivers of East Anglia.  Sarah Richards is Head of the Graduate School at the University of Suffolk, UK and Associate Professor of social policy, specialising in childhood studies. Sarah has extensive teaching experience in higher education. At the University of Suffolk, she has taught across a range of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes where her teaching primarily focuses on social policy and creative research methods. Sarah’s publications feature her work on international adoption policy and longstanding critical interest in methodological and ethical debates on research with children.

• 1: Introduction.- 2: Narratives in (in)authenticity: The Early Career Academic.- 3: Women, bullying and the construction industry: A story of veiled gender dynamics.- 4: Clinical advance through ethnographic storytelling: Towards an enacted organizational role for the hospital visitor.- 5: Two-and-One: Discovering my story in participants' pregnancy narratives.- 6: Exploring polyvocal stories of space, place, movement and migration.- 7: Whose story is it anyway? Hashtag campaigns and digital abortion storytelling.- 8: Storytime in the Craft Beer Bar: narratives, gobbets and segments.- 9: Arbitrage and Autopoiesis in Police Sergeants’ Stories: more than “canteen culture”.- 10: Restorying Trauma: Child Sexual Abuse.- 11: Personal and Ethnic Bildungen: Cross-cultural Storytelling in Singaporean-British Writer PP Wong’s The Life of a Banana.- 12: Telling stories, building bridges, and constructing Milton Keynes: Storytelling practice and research working together.- 13: The personal statement: a tool for developing the pedagogical potential of storytelling in business management education?.