ABSTRACT
This chapter invites social workers and narrative practitioners (some of whom will be both) into conversations about what resonances there are between the realms of narrative practice and practice-based research. It introduces narratively informed research into the context of practice-based research and invites readers to consider what each has to offer the other. The chapter tells a story of PhD research that was shaped by narrative practice with its emphasis on local, contextualised knowledge; its interest in the usefulness and effects of specific practices; its heritage of critical awareness and thinking; and its particular forms of attention to ethics. It highlights how narrative ideas contributed to shaping response to a particular dilemma in being an insider-academic-researcher. In the words of Alice MorganNarrative therapy seeks to be a respectful, non-blaming approach to counselling and community work, which centres people as the experts in their own lives.
