Biographical Research and New Social Architecture: Challenges and Opportunities During a Global Pandemic

What are the building blocks of the new societal architectures after COVID-19? What are the evolving lifestyle patterns, social connections and relationality, and what can biographical research bring to explore these unprecedented societal circumstances? This first book in the new series Advances in Biographical Research focuses on the place of biographical research in analysing and shaping social futures characterised by physical distancing and isolation, social fragmentation, trauma and vulnerability, including breaks in biographical trajectories. Written by experienced and early career researchers, it demonstrates how biographical research responds to new societal architectures: theoretically and empirically.

Lyudmila Nurse is Research Director at Oxford XXI think tank. Maggie O’Neill is Professor of Sociology and Criminology at University College Cork. Head of Department and Senior Lecturer at South East Technological University (SETU).