Author
David Silverman

Pub Date: 11/2009
Pages: 480

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David Silverman

Introduction by David Silverman

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About David Silverman
I have lived in London for most of my life. I went to school at Christ's College Finchley and did a BSc (Economics) at the London School of Economics in the 1960s. Afterwards, I went to the USA for graduate work, obtaining an MA in the Sociology Department, University of California, Los Angeles. I returned to LSE to write a PhD on organization theory. This was published as The Theory of Organizations in 1970.

Apart from brief spells teaching at UCLA, my main teaching career was at Goldsmiths College. My three major research projects were on decision making in the Personnel Department of the Greater London Council (Organizational Work, written with Jill Jones, 1975), paediatric outpatient clinics (Communication and Medical Practice, 1987) and HIV-test counselling (Discourses of Counselling, 1997).

I pioneered a taught MA in Qualitative Research at Goldsmiths in 1985 and supervised around 30 successful PhD students. Since becoming Emeritus Professor in 1999, I have continued publishing methodology books. I also have run workshops for research students in Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, France, Sri Lanka and Tanzania.

Partial retirement allows me plenty of time to pursue my other interests: classical music, literary fiction, bridge, county cricket and my grandchildren.