Dr Barbara Merrill is a Reader in the Center for Lifelong Learning having joined the former Department of Continuing Education in 1991 as a project development officer and then researcher. Before coming to Warwick she worked as a secondary teacher and advisory teacher for the Coventry LEA and a project officer at the Community Education Development Center.
Currently she is the Academic Coordinator for the 2+2 Social Studies program, University Coordinator for the Community Enterprise and Development Foundation Degree and Director of the Center¿s undergraduate teaching program. She teaches undergraduate modules, supervises dissertation students and undertakes research.

The book's pedagogical features, practical focus and cross disciplinary theoretical perspective makes this an interesting, accessible and interactive as well as a provocative textbook for students and researchers

Introduction: Setting the Scene
Biographical Methods: an Introductory History
Mapping the Contemporary Uses of Biographical Research
Identifying Some Theoretical Issues
Illustrating Good Practice: Case Studies
Getting Started in Research
Interviewing and Recording Experience
Making Sense of Biography: Analysis
Representing the Stories: Writing Up
Is Biographical Research Valid and Ethical?
On Being a Biographical Researcher