Joanna Bornat
Role within the OHS: Journal Editor
Current Occupation: Professor of Oral History in the Faculty of Health and Social Care at the Open University.
Current Projects:
She is currently interested in ways of re-using archived oral history data and on in interviewing South Asian doctors about the experience of working in the NHS.Previous Projects:
Expertise:During the 1980s she was chair of the London-wide organisation, Exploring Living Memory, which staged life history exhibitions. She has continued to be involved in community based oral history projects in the London area. As a gerontologist, she has a long-standing interest in the link between reminiscence and oral history and has researched and published on this topic.
Publications
edited and co-edited a number of collections, including: Reminiscence Reviewed: Perspectives, evaluations, achievements (1993); Biographical Interviews: the link between theory and practice, (1999); Oral History, Health and Welfare, (with Perks, Thompson & Walmsley, 2000); The Turn to Biographical Methods in Social Science, (with Chamberlayne & Wengraf, 2000); Biographical Methods in Professional Practice (with Chamberlayne & Apitzsch, 2004).
Email address: j.bornat@open.ac.uk