A seminar on “Using Micro-narrative in Research and Advocacy” was held on 23rd November 2016. It was conducted by Bokhtiar Ahmed, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Rajshahi University.
Micro-narratives are a fundamental and ancient way by which humans interpret their experience and make decisions. It comes from people – they are the bits and pieces of story we tell each other each day. Micro-narratives are what are required to understand a situation. Those same micro-narratives then lead us easily into making better sense of the world we are in and designing projects/programmes/interventions that take us forward from our current state. The research model -'micro-narrative', is a unique research tool that links the long standing tradition of narrative studies in applied development research.
The seminar explored the significance and potentials of narrative research in building insights from the below, sharing recent experimentations with the tool to reveal the scope and importance of using narrative tools within the institutional framework of research and advocacy.