In a neo-liberal era concerned with discourses of responsible individualism and the NselfieO, there is an increased interest in personal lives and experiences. In contemporary life, the personal is understood to be political and these ideas cut across both the social sciences and humanities.This handbook is specifically concerned with auto/biography, which sits within the field of narrative, complementing biographical and life history research. Some of the contributors emphasise the place of narrative in the construction of auto/biography, whilst others disrupt the perceived boundaries between the individual and the social, the self and the other. The collection has nine sections: creativity and collaboration; families and relationships; epistolary lives; geography; madness; prison lives; professional lives; NraceO; and social justice and disability. They illustrate the inter- and multi-disciplinary nature of auto/biography as a field. Each section features an introduction froma section editor, many of whom are established researchers and/or members of the British Sociological Association (BSA) Auto/Biography study group. The handbook provides the reader with cutting-edge research from authors at different stages in their careers, and will appeal to those with an interest in auto/biography, auto-ethnography, epistolary traditions, lived experiences, narrative analysis, the arts, education, politics, philosophy, history, personal life, reflexivity, research in practice and the sociology of the everyday.Chapter 1: A Case for Auto/Biography; Julie Parsons and Anne Chappell.Section One: Creativity and Collaboration; edited by Gayle Letherby.aChapter 2:aThe Times are a Changing: Culture(s) of Medicine; Theresa Compton.aChapter 3: Seventeen Minutes and Thirty-One Seconds: An Auto/Biographical Account of Collaboratively Witnessing and Representing ana Untold Life Story; Kitrina Douglas andDavid Carless.aChapter 4: Reflections on a Collaborative, Creative 'Working' Relationship; Deborah Davidson and Gayle Letherby.aSection Two: Families andaRelationships: Auto/Biography and Family, A Natural Affinity?; edited by David Morgan.aChapter 5: Life Story and Narrative Approaches in the Study of Family Lives; Julia Brannen.aChapter 6:aThe Research Methods for Discovering Housing Inequalities in Socio-Biographical Studies; Elizaveta Polukhina.Chapter 7:aaAuto/Biographical Research and The Family;aAidan Seery and Karin Bacon.aSection Three:aEpistolary Lives: Fragments, Sensibility, Assemblages in Auto/Biographical Research; edited by Maria Tamboukou.aChapter 8:aLetter-Writing and the Actual Course of Things: Doing the Business, Helping the World Go Round; Liz Stanley.aChapter 9:aThe Unforeseeable Narrative: Epistolary Lives in Nineteenth Century Iceland; Erla Hulda Halldrsdttir.aChapter 10: Auto/Pathographies In Situ: 'Dying of Melancholy' in Nineteenth CenturyaGreece; Dimitra Vassiliadou.aSection Four:aGeography Matters: Spatiality and Auto/Biography; edited by John Barker and Emma Wainwright.aChapter 11: Trying to Keep Up: Intersections of Identity, Space, Time and Rhythm in Women Student Carer Auto/Biographical Accounts;aFin Cullen, John Barker and Pam Alldred.aChapter 12:aSpatiality and Auto/Biographical Narratives of Encounter in Social Housing;aEmma Wainwright, Elodie Marandet and Ellen McHugh.Chapter 13:aOI ThoughtA I SawA I HeardAO: The Ethical and Moral Tensions of Auto/Biographically Opportunistic Research in Public Spaces; Tracy Ann Hayes.aSection Five:aMadness, Dys-order and Autist/Biography: Auto/Biographical Challenges to Psychiatric Dominance; edited by Kay Inckle.aChapter 14:aAutist/Biography; Alyssa Hillary.aChapter 15:aReaching Beyond Auto? A Polyvocal Representation of Recovery From OEating Dys-orderO; Brd OOFarrell.aChapter 16:a[R]evolving Towards Mad: Spinning Away from the Psy/Spy-Complex Through Auto/Biography; Phil Smith.aSection Six: Prison Lives; edited by Dennis Smith.aChapter 17:aNelson Mandela: Courage and Conviction O The Making of a Leader; Dennis Smith.aChapter 18:aThe OOtherO Prison of Antonio Gramsci and Giulia Schucht; Jeni Nicholson.aChapter 19:aBobby Sands: Prison and the Formation of a Leader; Denis OOHearn. - Section Seven: Professional Lives; edited by Jenny Byrne.aChapter 20: Academic Lives in a Period of Transition in Higher Education: Bildung in Educational Auto/Biography; Irene Selway, Jenny Byrne and Anne Chappell.aChapter 21:aNarratives of Early Career Teachers in a Changing Professional Landscape; Glenn Stone.aChapter 22:aWhat Does it Mean to be a Young Professional Graduate Working in the Private Sector?; Jenny Byrne.aSection Eight: 'Race' and Cultural Difference; edited by Geraldine Brown.aChapter 23:aNow You See Me, Now You DonOt! Making Sense of the Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) Experience of UK Higher Education: One PersonOs Story; Gurnam Singh.aChapter 24:aRaging Against the Dying of the Light; Paul Grant.Chapter 25:aBlack Young Men: Problematisation, Humanisation and Effective Engagement; Carver Anderson.aSection Nine: Social Justice and Disability: Voices From the Inside; by Chrissie Rogers.aChapter 26:aMissing Data and Socio-Political Death: The Sociological Imagination Beyond the Crime; Chrissie Roger.aChapter 27: Co-Constructed Auto/Biographies in Dwarfism Mothering Research: Imagining Opportunities for Social Justice; Kelly-Mae Saville.aChapter 28: An Auto/Biographical Account of Managing Autism and a Hybrid Identity: 'Covering' for Eight Days Straight; Amy Simmons.