How to Do Qualitative Interviewing

About Bethany Rowan Morgan BrettKathryn Wheeler

Dr Bethany Morgan Brett is a lecturer in Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex and a Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist. She holds a bachelors degree two masters degrees and a PhD in Sociology from the University of Essex. She has 15 years lecturing experience in social psychology psychoanalysis and psychosocial studies. Her research has primarily focused on ageing and the life course development. Her key areas of specialism include coping with loss grief depression and anxiety trauma care and end of life issues. She also worked for nine years in the UK Data Archive and specialises in research data management digitising and archiving qualitative research collections and qualitative research ethics. She has published a number of journal articles and is currently authoring a monograph for Policy Press on Adult Children and Ageing Parents. She has also recently co-authored textbook with Dr Katy Wheeler How to Do Qualitative Interviewing which is due to be published by SAGE later in 2021. Dr Katy Wheeler is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at The University of Essex. Her research interests are in the fields of sustainability and consumption and she has published widely within leading academic journals and two books Fair-Trade and the Citizen-Consumer: Shopping for Justice (2012) and Recycling and Consumption Work: Social and moral economies (2015). With her colleague Bethany Morgan Brett she is also the author of How to do Qualitative Interviewing (2021).