NARRATIVE WRITING FOR QUALITATIVE RESEARCHERS
With Dr. Kakali Bhattacharya
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Narrative Writing for Social-Science Minded Qualitative Researchers
For the social-science minded researchers who need to write thematic narratives, life history narratives, narrative inquiry studies, autoethnographic narratives, duethnographic narratives, or experimental narratives or narratives of any kind utlizing qualitative inquiry.
First come, first served. We will mentor only six to eight scholars.
Structure of this Immersive Learning Experience
8-Week Professional Development Series: Narrative Writing Strategies for the Social-Science Minded Researcher
Transform your qualitative research into powerful, engaging narratives with our immersive 8-week live experience.
Weeks 1-3: Breathe life into your writing by building a consistent practice, embracing mindfulness, and amplifying both emotional and verifiable truths in your data. Explore creative methods like visual narratives, poetic storytelling, ethnodrama, and narrative case studies. Develop essential techniques such as scene creation, pacing, participant voice, and dialogue—all tailored to elevate your qualitative research.
Weeks 4-8: Receive deep, personalized feedback to refine your narrative each week. One-on-one and group guidance, including peer and instructor feedback, will help you develop impactful narratives that honor the voices of your participants. Join an intimate community of peers as we workshop your pieces, ensuring you leave each week with actionable insights and renewed clarity.
Ready to transform your research into narratives that captivate and inspire?
First come, first served. We will mentor only six to eight scholars (graduate students and/or faculty or academic adjacent professionals).
Apply Now For Priority Consideration!A brief overview of the learning experience, feedback ethics and format, and an invitation to ask more questions.
Why This and Why Now?
Information from Behind the Scenes
As a graduate student in the sciences and social sciences, I struggled with crafting rich, thick descriptive details, a crucial aspect of qualitative research writing. Over time, my shift towards humanities-oriented qualitative research strengthened my descriptive writing. This improvement led to feedback from diverse readers, who shared how my writing resonated with them, sparked shifts in perspective, and challenged taken-for-granted ideas.
Your reasons for learning to write descriptive narratives may differ, but no matter your focus in qualitative research, this skill will always be invaluable.
First come, first served. We will mentor only six to eight scholars (graduate students and/or faculty or academic adjacent professionals).
Apply Now For Priority Consideration!You're not Alone
- Struggling with writing descriptive narratives in your research? You’re not alone. Many of us come from backgrounds focused on data and analysis, not storytelling.
- Feeling stuck? If you’re a graduate student or a faculty member, or an academic adjacent faculty, you may know how to conduct research but not how to write rich, thick, descriptive narratives for your qualitative studies.
- Your writing might feel flat or uninspired when it comes to narrative inquiry, life history studies, autoethnography, duoethnography, or other types of narrative writing.
- The truth: Writing resonant, compelling narratives is an often-overlooked skill in academic training. It’s about more than just reporting data—it’s about telling stories that move and inspire. It is about honoring the co-creators of your study - the participants.Â
- Imagine learning to craft these narratives with ease. In this 8-week, immersive experience, you'll develop skills for descriptive writing, whether in thematic representations, oral histories, experimental writing, or any other kind of narrative writing..
- Get personalized, in-depth feedback to ensure your growth is fast and aligned with your unique style and your ways of knowing, thinking, being, feeling, and showing up in this world.
- This experience will take your writing from functional to transformative—because your research deserves to be read and remembered. Your words have power. Do not play small.
- Ready to learn what no one ever taught you till now? Sign up now and start crafting narratives that resonate.
First come, first served. We will mentor only six to eight scholars (graduate students and/or faculty or academic adjacent professionals).
Apply Now For Priority Consideration!Key Benefits
- You write with crystallized clarity, where every word reflects your deeper understanding and purpose. Your narratives cut through the noise, revealing the essence of your research with precision and brilliance.
- Your voice is whole and sacred, and in this workshop, you’ll learn to amplify it. The richness of your unique experiences, insights, and truth will flow into your writing, creating work that feels both powerful and deeply authentic.
- You operate from the zone of your genius, where creativity and intellect merge without stifling your sensibilities. Your writing becomes an extension of your full self, unfiltered, uncompromised, and unapologetic.
- You’re supported by a community that restores and energizes you, helping you align your writing mojo with your purpose. In this immersive experience, the environment is tailored to help you flourish, getting you into a flow state where the words come naturally.
- You feel grounded and confident, equipped with enhanced qualitative research tools, strategies, and navigation techniques. These aren’t just abstract concepts—you’ll leave with practical, actionable methods that make the writing process smooth and fulfilling.
- You’re a powerhouse of academic vocabulary, able to express your ideas exactly how you envision them. No compromise, no hesitation—just clear, concise, and compelling narrative writing with academic justification that flows with ease.
- You tap into your genius to create a visionary path for your writing, opening up endless possibilities. The boundaries of traditional academic writing dissolve as you craft compelling narratives that push the field forward and resonate with readers from all walks of life.
First come, first served. We will mentor only six to eight scholars (graduate students and/or faculty or academic adjacent professionals).
Apply Now For Priority Consideration!Why trust this program?
We understand that you are a discerning type of person. Let's talk honestly about what you'd receive by being part of this immersive learning experience. As a result of participating in this professional development series, you will receive:
- Weekly didactic lessons on various writing strategies
- Tips, tricks, and hacks
- Mindset for cultivating a writing practice
- Tips and stratgies for handling writers' block, self-doubts, impostor syndrome issues
- Invitation to Dr. Bhattacharya's weekly co-writing sessions (lifetime access)
- Deep feedback on everyone's writing to enhance your writing skills
- A blueprint of customized strategies for your future writing plans
- Completion and polishing your writing for publication
- Expert guidance from award-winning instructors who care deeply about your growth and professional development
Tuition: Your Investment
In pricing this immersive experience, we’ve managed to keep the financial investment at a respectable number, for deep mentoring (customized feedback on writing, lifetime access to writing community, co-writing sessions, and resource sharing). The investment is a four figure investment in alignment with other comparable mentoring programs. You can consider the cost of a 3-credit hour course with fees, where every lesson is customized to your project and you are held in care in a small trusted community to experience being nurtured and restored as you receive deep, loving, critical feedback.
The price is lower than existing mentoring programs that do not offer the level of high touch and support this program offers. Also, this price is meant to reduce your other costs of living with your academic stressors and misalignments. Thus, the price is far less than the ongoing costs (health issues, stress issues, mental health issues, fatigue and burnout issues) that easily create multiple expensive problems and draining of your financial and other resources that cannot even be priced.
- What is the price of emotional burden, health consequences, and the toll on your confidence that comes from working all the time for very little return?
- What are you paying to not have the clarity of a fully dialed-in purpose?
- What is the cost of self fragmentation and silencing that you have felt forced to normalize?
Frequently asked questions
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YOUR INSTRUCTORS
Dr. Kakali Bhattacharya
Dr. Kakali Bhattacharya is a multiple award-winning professor. For the last two decades, Dr. Bhattacharya has explored qualitative research through critical, de/colonial, creative, transnational, and contemplative perspectives.
She has received the 2022 inaugural Egon G. Guba Award for Outstanding Contributions to Qualitative Research from the American Educational Research Association's Qualitative Research Special Interest Group (AERA QR-SIG). She has received several distinguished researcher, scholar of color, and distinguished alumni awards from the American Educational Research Association, the University of Georgia, and the National Association of Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education, Asian, Pacific Islander Knowledge Community.
She is the 2018 winner of AERA's Mid-Career Scholar of Color Award and the 2018 winner of AERA's Mentoring Award from Division G: Social Context of Education. Her co-authored text with Kent Gillen, Power, Race, and Higher Education: A Cross-Cultural Parallel Narrative, has won a 2017 Outstanding Publication Award from AERA (SIG 168) and a 2018 Outstanding Book Award from the International Congress of Qualitative Research. She was recognized as one of the top 25 women in higher education by Diverse magazine for her significant contribution to social justice work and efforts to de/colonize qualitative research. Additionally, she was one of the six distinguished scholars invited by the Association of Studies in Higher Education as a featured speaker for their 2018 Inaugural Woke Methodology Series.
She has over 100 publications, including refereed articles, books, and book chapters, and she has editorial responsibilities with a Routledge Book Series entitled Futures of Data Analysis in Qualitative Research and the journal Departures in Critical Qualitative Research.
Substantively, she has explored transnational issues of race, class, and gender in higher education. She has crafted Par/Des(i) ontoepistemologies with associated theoretical tenets to highlight the complex negotiations South Asian transnationals engage in diasporic locations.
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