Doing My Memoir – In Search of Self

I’ve spent most of my career investigating the lives and works of scientists.
Now I’m using my toolbox for a study of my own enigma.

Introduction

summary
project history
aims
outreach so far
project ethics
about me

Approaches

doing memoirs online
analytical approaches
materials
methods
literature references

Versions of my memoir

text memoir
– episodes and anecdotes
– chapters
– comprehensive narratives
– life themes
– lists
photo memoir
visualisations

Latest blog posts

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The life course as a process of punctuated equilibrium

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My remote FB-friend Mark Hineline came up with an interesting idea the other day. "It occurs to me", he wrote, "that the self can develop over time in the manner…

Scientific memoirs as stories of personal decline

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I still remember the day almost two years ago when I read the best scientific autobiography I've ever held in my hands. The best description of the life of a…

Episodic memory and narrative reconstruction

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In the course of this project, I've spent evening after evening recollecting memories from my childhood and school years. I have jotted down pages of notes with several hundreds of…