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I am a Research Masters student at the University of Plymouth, currently researching the mental health of single, middle-aged adults living in Cornwall during the Covid-19 pandemic. My research is auto/biographical, drawing on interviews and on my own experiences of the pandemic. I am also a mature student, splitting my time between my work in children’s services and finishing my Masters. I’ve found I-poems and collages useful for keeping experiences fresh in my mind while juggling research with the rest of life.
The ‘Disrupting Normative Methodologies’ conference was a great opportunity (and my first attempt) to organise a conference and meet some academic heroes. I was pleased with its success, as I think we all were! In 2023, it was the first of three conferences I presented preliminary research findings and auto/biographical work at that year, the others being the 10th International Conference of Autoethnography and the BSA Auto/Biography Study Group Summer Conference.
I am a BSC Psychology graduate (undergraduate dissertation topic was on the challenges of being an adult while still living with parents later in life), but I also have a BA in Music Industry Management/Business Administration from further back in my past. My research interests currently include mental health, identity, friendship, qualitative research methods and auto/biography. For more information on my academic work and some links, please visit my ORCID profile.
ORCID ID: 0009-0002-5860-3739
ORCID profile page: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-5860-3739