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Longitudinal Oral History

Longitudinal oral history is a qualitative research design in which the same participants are interviewed repeatedly over an extended period — months or years — using open-ended, narrative-focused conversations. By revisiting participants at multiple points in time, the researcher traces how individuals construct, revise, and reinterpret their personal stories as their lives unfold, capturing not just retrospective accounts but the dynamic, evolving nature of memory and meaning-making.

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Longitudinal Oral History Research

Taxonomic method recordprocess-pipelinequalitative

  1. Thomson, A. (2007). Four paradigm transformations in oral history. The Oral History Review, 34(1), 49–70. · DOI 10.1525/ohr.2007.34.1.49

  2. Bornat, J. (2008). Biographical methods. In L. Given (Ed.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research Methods. SAGE. · URL

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