Welcome to
the public access level of the Inventing Adulthoodsarchive.
This section of the site provides a wealth
of contextual information on the study and a chance to get a taste of
the anonymised case data that has been archived and made available for
further use.
Capturing Change Over Time
Your guide
to the Inventing Adulthoods study and the archived data
This section of the site provides a wealth
of contextual information on the study and a chance to get a taste of
the anonymised interview transcripts available in the archive.
We have used the concept of time as a way of
organizing all this information for obvious reasons: change over time
is a central theme of the study. Inventing Adulthoods traces the
intimate detail and diverse pathways of young lives as they unfolded
over time and, in so doing, charts the changing social and historical
landscape. It is also an interesting research enterprise, not only
involving the maintenance of a core research team of five women over
fifteen years but the documentation of changes in these researchers'
own lives, interpretations, analyses and methods of representation over
this not insignificant time period. Time has also been central to the
process of representing and preparing the data set for re-use: our
archiving process has involved 'looking back' in order to 'look
forward' in the attempt to meet the needs of future users of the
dataset.
If you want to find out more about the
general methodological and theoretical story of the research over time,
about the research tools we used and/or our methods of analysis, about
what it was like to be in the study (for both researcher and
researched), or about how we worked and stayed together as a team - go
to Research
Time .
If you are interested in using our
anonymised data or simply getting to know about the young people whose
case data has been anonymised and included in the archive (N=40) - go
to Biographical
Time.
If you want a taste of the cross-sectional
data from the study and/or are interested in our thoughts about how to
contextualise the study historically - go to Historical
Time.
If you want to read more about how we set
about recontextualising the study click here.
