Doing Qualitative Research

About David Silverman

David Silverman trained as a sociologist at the London School of Economics and the University of California Los Angeles. He taught for 32 years at Goldsmiths University of London where he is now Emeritus Professor in the Sociology Department as well as Visiting Professor in the Business Schools Kings College London Leeds University and University of Technology Sydney and Adjunct Professor Faculty of Education Queensland University of Technology. He is interested in conversation and discourse analysis and he has researched medical consultations shelters for homeless people and HIV-test counselling. He is the author of Doing Qualitative Research (sixth edition 2022) and A Very Short Fairly Interesting Reasonably Cheap Book about Qualitative Research (second edition 2013c). He is the editor of Qualitative Research (fifth edition 2021) and the Sage series Introducing Qualitative Methods. In recent years he has offered short hands-on workshops in qualitative research for universities in Europe Asia Africa and Australia.  Now retired from full-time work he aims to watch 100 days of county cricket a year. He also enjoys spending time with his grandchildren and great-grandsons as well as voluntary work in an old peoples home where he chats and sings with residents.