The SAGE Handbook of Grounded Theory: Paperback Edition

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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. Kathy Charmaz was Professor Emerita of Sociology and the former director of the Faculty Writing Program at Sonoma State University. She joined the first cohort of doctoral students at the University of California San Francisco where she studied with Anselm Strauss. She wrote in the areas of social psychology medical sociology qualitative methods and grounded theory and over her career wrote coauthored or coedited 14 books including two award-winning works: Good Days Bad Days; The Self in Illness and Time and Constructing Grounded Theory. She received the George Herbert Mead award for lifetime achievement from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction the Leo G. Reeder award for distinguished contributions from the Medical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association and the Lifetime Achievement award from the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry. Professor Charmaz also gave workshops on qualitative methods grounded theory symbolic interactionism and scholarly writing around the globe.