The Varieties of Grounded Theory

About Antony Bryant

Antony Bryant is currently Professor of Informatics at Leeds Beckett University Leeds UK.   He has written and taught extensively on research methods with a particular interest in qualitative research methods and the Grounded Theory Method in particular.  His book Grounded Theory and Grounded Theorizing: Pragmatism in Research Practice was recently published by Oxford University Press (2017).  He is Senior Editor of The SAGE Handbook of Grounded Theory (SAGE 2007) and The Sage Handbook of Current Developments in Grounded Theory both co-edited with Kathy Charmaz (SAGE 2019).   He has supervised over 50 doctoral students and examined many others in topics including formal specification of software systems development of quality and maturity frameworks new forms of business modelling and various aspects of e-government and e-democracy. He is currently working with Professor Frank Land who worked on the first commercial computer (LEO 1951) and was also the first UK Professor of Information Systems on a series of conversations planned for publication that will cover issues in the development and impact of computer technology since the 1950s.