Biography
Dr. Katy Wheeler is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Essex. She is the co-author of How to Do Qualitative Interviewing (SAGE, 2022) and a regular contributor and reviewer for SAGE Research Methods. Katy specialises in qualitative research methods, with particular expertise in interviewing, qualitative data analysis, and the use of Computer-Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software (CAQDAS). She has delivered numerous training courses on CAQDAS and qualitative interviewing for academic and practitioner audiences. Her recent work explores the implications of Generative AI for qualitative analysis, encouraging greater technological reflexivity in research practice. Beyond methodology, her research interests include sustainability, consumption, and education, and she has published widely in leading journals and in two monographs: Fair-Trade and the Citizen-Consumer: Shopping for Justice (Palgrave, 2012) and Recycling and Consumption Work: Social and Moral Economies (Palgrave, 2015).
1R Qualitative Interviewing – Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis
