Narrative [Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Narrative, CIRN]

Human beings have been storytelling creatures since the very beginning, and the narrative impulse permeates countless facets of our world. Narrative is pivotal not just to literature, in other words, but to cognition and emotion, memory and community, politics and religion, culture and identity, counselling and learning. In the same way that any story deals with a number of subjects at once, so the study of story is the province of no one field. As a result, research on the storied complexity of human life draws from, and has an impact on, a wide range of disciplines - from psychology to sociology, history to healthcare, and ethics to education. It is to furthering such research that CIRN is devoted.