Biographical Perspectives on Lives Lived During Covid-19

This volume elucidates international biographical and narrative perspectives on how COVID-19 influenced people's daily lives across different countries and contexts. It draws together global interdisciplinary scholarly contributions and conceptualizes the lived life as a complex, multilayered and multidimensional phenomenon that is constantly unfolding both in and across time. Significantly, this volume focuses on seldom-heard groups including persons diagnosed with HIV, COVID-19 dissenters, prisoners, essential workers, waste pickers, refugees and migrants. The chapters focus on the pandemic's multifarious impacts on people's lived realities in personal and professional domains, exploring the complexity of people's relationships with family, friends, interactions with colleagues and students and the centrality of emotions, to everyday human experiences, including grief, loss and loneliness as well as moments of joy and processes of personal renewal. This volume explores innovative questions, issues and challenges on the development and utilization of rich, biographical narrative methodologies during COVID-19, addressing important issues like power and voice, and pragmatic questions of how to do biographic research whilst socially distant. Contributions to this work illuminate the multidimensionality of human experiences, adaptability to adverse circumstances and the complexity of working through unanticipated global events whilst reimagining novel social futures.

Auteur

Dr Lisa Moran is a sociologist and is Dean of Graduate Studies, Head of the Graduate School and Senior Lecturer at the Technological University of the Shannon (TUS), Ireland. She has a strong research background in biographic narrative research and is a professional researcher since 2004 and a senior lecturer since 2018. She completed postdoctoral work with Teagasc, the Agriculture and Food Development Authority of Ireland, and University College Dublin (UCD) and the University of Galway, Ireland. Her principal research interests are narrative research methods, transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches, society-environment interactions, and the lives of veterinary professionals and care experienced young people. She is Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) UK since 2020 and is the President of the Sociological Association of Ireland (SAI). She is also a board member of RN 03 Biographical Perspectives on European Societies of the European Sociological Association (ESA).

Dr. Zeta Dooly is a Lecturer in the School of Education and Lifelong learning at South East Technological University SETU. Zeta leads the level 9 Post graduate certificate in Technology Enhanced Learning and has led research projects on Digital transformation, Education, Cybersecurity, Privacy and the Recognition of Prior Learning. Zeta is passionate about research, specifically the links between people, technology and education through narrative research methods. Zeta has recently established the South East Education Research Lab at SETU for Immersive Learning Environments.Zeta acts as an Expert evaluator, Observer and Rapporteur with the European Commission Horizon Europe Program and previously H2020 and FP7 in ICT, Research and Education. Previously Zeta was an invited speaker with Dept. of Taoiseach and Enterprise Ireland. Zeta was recently appointed to the Corporate and Midlands Health Service Executive (HSE) Ireland Research Ethics Committee. She is also a member of SETU Academic Council sub-committee on Teaching and Learning, Programme Development Digital Education and Online Assessment. Zeta is a member of the European Commission Stakeholder Consultation Group on Digital Education Content and the European Digital Education Hub. Zeta sits on many international conference committees and is also active in local initiatives.