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David Silverman

"we need to resist treating research methods as mere <i>techniques</i>"

David Silverman is Visiting Professor in the Business School, University of Technology, Sydney, Emeritus Professor in the Sociology Department, Goldsmiths’ College and Adjunct Professor in the School of Education, Queensland University of Technology. Professor David Silverman is an outstanding scholar specialising in qualitative research.

David is Professor Emeritus in the Sociology Department at Goldsmiths College and Visiting Professor in the Management Department at King's College, University of London and the Business School, University of Technology, Sydney. He has authored 15 books and 45 journal articles on qualitative research, ethnography and conversation analysis.

Professor Silverman has hosted workshops on qualitative research for PhD students in Australia since 2009 as well as in Europe, Sri Lanka and Tanzania. David regularly runs qualitative research workshops for five universities in Sydney and Brisbane. He has also run workshops for research students in Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, France, Sri Lanka and Tanzania.

Since 2000, he has done voluntary work with people with dementia. resident in an old people’s home. Besides all this, David's other interests include classical music, literary fiction, bridge, county cricket and spending time with his grandchildren.