Storytelling As Research

Course | 3 Lessons

Explore storytelling as qualitative research in this 90-minute workshop with Dr. Kakali Bhattacharya. Learn to balance narrative depth with methodological rigor, analyze story data for publication, and create meaningful research. Includes a recording, slides, resources, and a live Q&A—ideal for scholars, graduate students, and educators.

Event Details

💻 Location: Live on Zoom (Recording Available)
💰 Investment: $197

What’s Included:

📌 90-minute live workshop – engaging, interactive, and practical.
📌 Recording – revisit anytime at your convenience.
📌 Slides & relevant resources – tools you can use immediately.
📌 Live Q&A session – direct access to Dr. Bhattacharya’s expertise.

This isn’t just about checking a box for publication—it’s about reshaping the field with research that matters to your community and you.

📌 Event Details

📍 Where: Live on Zoom

🔗 Join the Zoom Meeting

Click here to join

Meeting ID: 871 4948 2858
Passcode: 328330

🔎 How to Show Up & Get the Most Out of This Workshop

📌 Come Camera-Ready – This is an interactive session. I encourage you to be on camera and engage with me and others in the room. Your presence matters, and this is a space to connect!

📌 Bring Your Questions – Whether you’ve struggled with publishing, structuring narrative research, or getting journals to take storytelling seriously—this is your chance to get real answers.

📌 Take Notes, But Also Be Present – You’ll receive slides and a recording after the session, so you don’t have to worry about capturing every word. Instead, focus on engaging with the discussion and applying the insights in real time.

📌 Mindset Shift Alert – This isn’t just another research methods lecture. We’re reclaiming space for storytelling in qualitative research—so come ready to challenge old frameworks and embrace new possibilities.

A 90-minute live workshop for scholars and researchers who want to gain expertise in the art of storytelling as research intersecting narrative writing, qualitative research, and justification for robust inquiry.

Stories in your study hold power. Various theoretical frameworks, especially those that are culturally situated call for researchers to offer counternarratives, expanded narratives, narratives that are otherwise absent from the literature, presented in empowered formats challenging deficit based framing and traditional approaches to qualitative research.

Stories challenge, inspire, and disrupt. But when it comes to academia, translating lived experiences into rigorous, publishable research can feel like an impossible balancing act. Navigating the space between powerful storytelling and academic rigor can feel overwhelming.

You may find yourself wondering:

🔸 How do I honor lived experiences while meeting academic expectations?
🔸 What frameworks can I use to frame storytelling as research?
🔸 Can I analyze and structure narrative data without stripping it of meaning or truth?
🔸 What are the best ways to argue for story-based research in top-tier journals?
🔸 How do I ensure my research is taken seriously?
🔸 Why does it feel so difficult to publish story-based research that stays true to its depth?

If any of these resonate, you’re not alone—and you don’t have to figure it out or navigate them on your own.

A Research Approach That Honors Both Storytelling & Rigor

Join Dr. Kakali Bhattacharya, an award-winning scholar with over two decades of experience, for a 90-minute interactive workshop that provides the clarity, strategies, and tools you need to transform your story-based research into work that is both methodologically rigorous and deeply meaningful.

In This Workshop, You’ll Learn How To:

🔹 Balance storytelling and methodology – so your research is compelling and methodologically sound.

🔹 Utilize established academic structures of research to justify storytelling - so you can use ontoepistmologies, theoretical frameworks, data collection and analysis, aligned with storytelling as research
🔹 Analyze and structure story data for publication – without compromising depth and authenticity.
🔹 Craft strong scholarly arguments for story-based research – ensuring your work gets published with strong academic justification.
🔹 Apply culturally-responsive, ethical storytelling techniques – honoring identities and lived realities.
🔹 Translate research into resonant work– so your storytelling don’t just inform, they stay with the reader and move the needle.
🔹 Engage in hands-on application – putting techniques into practice right away.

You’ll walk away with a clear roadmap to elevate your storytelling as research, ensuring it is impactful, publishable, and methodologically robust

Check the Storytelling As Research

Who Is This For?

📖 Graduate students & early-career scholars who want to publish narrative-driven research.
✍🏾 Experienced researchers refining their qualitative storytelling methodologies.
🌍 Educators & practitioners looking to make their research more accessible and transformative.

If you have a basic understanding of qualitative research and a passion for research that creates change, this workshop is for you.

Frequently asked questions

You've got questions. We've got answers.

Who is this workshop for?

This workshop is for graduate students, scholars, researchers, and educators who want to integrate storytelling into their qualitative research while ensuring methodological rigor. If you struggle with balancing storytelling and academic expectations, this session will give you clarity and practical strategies.

Do I need prior experience with qualitative research?

Yes, a basic understanding of qualitative research is recommended. This workshop is designed to deepen your approach to storytelling within research, not to introduce qualitative methods from scratch.

What if I can’t attend live?

No worries! All registrants will receive a recording of the session, along with slides and relevant resources, so you can revisit the content anytime.

How will this help me get published?

You’ll learn practical strategies to analyze and structure story-based research, ensuring your work meets academic standards while staying true to its depth and meaning. The workshop will also cover how to craft compelling journal arguments to increase your chances of publication. Additionally Dr. Bhattacharya will share her experience of being a published author and editors of journals, book series, book, special issue to help you understand the hidden curriculum of getting published.

Will there be opportunities to ask questions?

Of course. You will be encouraged to ask questions anytime during the presentation plus you will also experience in-depth interactive experience of taking a raw data and converting it into a story.

Your Instructor

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, in addition to editorial responsibilities with a Routledge Book Series entitled Futures of Data Analysis in 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.