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Antony Bryant is Professor of Informatics at Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, UK; Chief Researcher, The Education Academy, Institute of Educational Research, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania. He has written extensively on qualitative research methods, being Senior Editor of The SAGE Handbook of Grounded Theory (2007) and The SAGE Handbook of Current Developments in Grounded Theory (2019); both co-edited with Kathy Charmaz. His writing on Grounded Theory includes Grounded Theory and Grounded Theorizing (Oxford, 2017), The Varieties of Grounded Theory (SAGE, 2019), and ‘Continual Permutations of Misunderstanding: The Curious Incidents of the Grounded Theory Method’, Qualitative Inquiry, May, 2020.
The Grounded Theory Method [GTM] is by most measures the most widely used research method across a wide range of disciplines. It originated in the 1960s in the work of Barney Glaser and Anselm Strauss, working together with Jeanne Quint at the University of San Francisco. GTM was a direct challenge to the research orthodoxy of the time in American social sciences, and this characteristic has stayed with the method. Many gatekeepers – editors, doctoral examiners, and assessors – readily profess their disdain for GTM, all too often based on outmoded ideas, faulty understanding or significant ignorance.
Vilma Žydžiūnaitė holds two PhD’s in Social sciences, Education and Health sciences, Nursing with her professor’s and senior researcher’s positions in several higher education institutions: She is the Director and Senior Researcher at Educational Research Institute, Vytautas Magnus University, Professor at Department of Educational Management and Policy at Education Academy, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania.
She teaches students of General Practice Nursing Programme at Department of Nursing and Social Welfare, Faculty of Health Sciences, Klaipeda State College, Lithuania.
She is Professor and Senior Researcher at the Institute of Pedagogy, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland.
She holds Professor’s position at Department of Nursing, Faculty of Health sciences, Klaipeda University, Lithuania.
Prof. Vilma Zydziunaite is author and co-author of over two hundred scientific publications including articles and monographs. She gave over 160 scientific presentations and provided about the same amount of original workshops on research methodology.
Laura Purdy works at the Sports Business degree programme team at Liverpool John Moores University. She holds a PhD from the University of Otago (New Zealand), a MSc (Leisure Studies) from the University of Illinois (USA), and a Bachelor of Recreation and Leisure Studies (Hons.) from Brock University (Canada). Her recent scholarly activity has focused on issues in the sport industry that relate to relationships between organisations and sports workers. Her research showcases ‘best practice’, informing policy for national organisations and the education of sports workers globally, including Swiss Olympic, UK Coaching, Coaching Ireland, the Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU), the Basketball Federations of Kosovo, Estonia, and Bulgaria, the British Association of Snowsport Instructors (BASI), and the Lithuanian Federation of Sport Climbing.