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Jacqueline Ann Christodoulou PhD

Freelance writer and research psychologist

Welcome

Welcome to my website. I have created this space to showcase my writing and research. I am a creative writer and researcher who's main interest is the construction of identity and storytelling. I am particularly interested in how identity is constructed in a narrative sense, and this has been the subject of my recent PhD thesis. I am also interested in the construction and deconstruction of identity through creative writing and storytelling. I currently have two ongoing projects and I am interested in undertaking further projects of a qualitative nature. My work includes writing novels and conducting research from concept to completion and everything in between!

Please click the links on the right hand side of the page for more information about me and my work, or go to my regularly updated blog.

Biography

I was born in Oldham near Manchester. I was educated at Bluecoat School in Oldham and subsequently studied management accounting whilst living in Cyprus. During this time I developed my creative writing skills by writing short stories and poems which were published in various anthologies and ‘best’ magazine.

Then I began to run creative writing workshops for Oldham Borough Council, bringing creative writing skills to teenagers living in a disadvantaged social and educational area. This prompted an interest in identity construction and narratives and I embarked on a BSc Honours degree in order to hone myunderstanding of how people operate their identity in the world.

After graduating with a 2:1 in psychology, I went on to postgraduate study at Manchester Metropolitan University. My expertise lies in the field of identity construction and I have spent five years in research and attained a doctorate in November 2007. I have written extensively on identity construction and contributed a chapter to a recent collaboration of eminent narrative psychologists in Narrative, Memory and Knowledge: Representations, Aesthetics and Contexts. My full lengt5h book Identity, health and women: a new perspective' a textbook for health professionals, students, researchers, practitioners and anyone interested in identity construction in the context of health - to be published 2010 worldwide by Palgrave Macmillan.

I feel that my academic and life experience to date positions me ideally in the observation of life and provides the skills to narrate this in detail in my project conceptualizing five novels about women's identity dialectics. Three novels are now complete and the fourth novel is in progress. Additionally. I have a back catologue of short stories and vignettes.
I live in Oldham with her partner Eric and their dog. I work as a writer and research consultant in Manchester and writes short stories and novels about ‘real’ women grounded in their ‘real’ lives. I also work as editorial for a safety and reliability publication. My hobbies include circle-chasing, webpage authoring and postmodern charcoal drawing.

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