Qualitative Methods for Health Research

Judith Green has degrees in anthropology and sociology and a PhD in the sociology of health. She has taught research methods to a wide range of students over the last 30 years including undergraduate postgraduate and doctoral students and health professionals from nursing medicine public health and sociology. She is currently Professor of Sociology at the University of Exeter and Honorary Professor in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Sydney. She has held posts at the Kings College London the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and London South Bank University. Judith has broad substantive interests in the sociology of health and health services and has researched and published on primary care professional identity accidental injury public understanding of risk and the relationships between transport and well-being. She is currently co-editor of the Journal of Critical Public Health. Other publications include Risk and misfortune: The social construction of accidents (1997 Taylor & Francis); Critical perspectives in public health co-edited with Ronald Labonté (2008 Routledge) and Analysing health policy: A sociological approach (1998 Longman) also co-authored with Nicki Thorogood. Nicki Thorogoods first degree was in sociology and social anthropology and she has a PhD in the sociology of health from the University of London. She has over 30 years experience of teaching undergraduate postgraduate and doctoral students and health professionals from nursing medicine public health and sociology She is currently Programme Director for the DrPH (Doctorate in Public Health) at LSHTM as well as supervising several research degree students. Before coming to LSHTM (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) in 1999 she held posts at Middlesex University and at Guys Kings and Thomass School of Medicine and Dentistry (GKT). Her research interests are primarily in qualitative research into aspects of identity e.g. ethnicity gender disability and sexuality and in the sociology of the body. She is also interested in the intersection of mental health with public health and health promotion. She is Series Editor with Rosalind Plowman of the Understanding Public Health series of textbooks published by Open University Press.