This volume draws together scholarly contributions from diverse, yet interlinking disciplinary fields, with the aim of critically examining the value of narrative inquiry in understanding the everyday lives of children and young people in diverse spaces and places, including the home, recreational spaces, communities and educational spaces. Incorporating insights from sociology, geography, education, child and youth studies, social care, and social work, the collection emphasises how narrative research approaches present storytelling as a universally recognizable, valuable and effective methodological approach with children and young people. The chapters points to the diversity of spaces and places encountered by children and young people, considers how young people ‘tell tales’ about their lives and highlights the multidimensionality of narrative research in capturing their everyday lived experiences.

Lisa Moran is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Sciences, Edge Hill University, and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK. 

Kathy Reilly is Lecturer in the School of Geography and Archaeology, NUI Galway, Ireland.

Bernadine Brady is Lecturer in the UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, NUI Galway, Ireland.