Doing Q Methodological Research: Theory, Method & Interpretation

About Paul StennerSimon Watts

Simon Watts is PGR Training Coordinator and Deputy Head of the Graduate School in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of East Anglia UK. He is responsible for organizing all the research professional development and advanced training programs for PGR students within the faculty and teaches extensively on these programs. He primarily publishes instructional papers in the area of research methodology/skills is particularly well known for his work with Q methodology and is lead author of the Sage publication Doing Q methodological research: Theory method and interpretation (co-authored with Professor Paul Stenner at the Open University). Simons various book and journal publications have been cited in excess of 2000 times since 2012. Paul Stenner is Professor of Social Psychology at The Open University UK. He completed his PhD at the University of Reading UK and has held posts at the University of Brighton University College London University of Bath and the University of East London. He works with process approaches to psychosocial issues. He has published work in numerous fields including the emotions human rights quality of life and active ageing. With Simon Watts he is the author of Doing Q Methodological Research: Theory Method and Interpretation (SAGE 2012). He has published 25 peer-reviewed articles using or about Q methodology and numerous book chapters including Q methodology (Stenner Watts & Worrell 2017) and The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research in Psychology Second Edition (Willig & Stainton Rogers Eds. 2017).