ABSTRACT
The use of fiction, which should not be regarded as synonymous with falsehood, arguably facilitates telling tales in a dramatic and enjoyable way. It is also a useful way of ‘writing the self,’ so that the researcher and the researched become one and the same. The flagship module encourages students to identify the knowledge they have acquired on the degree and link them to their post-degree ambitions, working with professional writers, university event managers, attending conferences and hearing from MA and alumni students about their work and expanding their community of practice beyond their BA peer group. Through the writing of the author's own autobiographical stories, they explore their senses of the past and how this has informed the development of the module. They identify their own autobiographical storytelling as a strategy for supporting students to value and develop their own life stories.
