Uwe Flick

Uwe Flick is Senior Professor of Qualitative Research in Social Science and Education at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. As a trained psychologist and sociologist and after completing his PhD from the Freie Universität Berlin, he held positions as Professor at Technical University Berlin (psychology), Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin (nursing and social work research), and at the University of Vienna, Austria (political sciences). His main research interests are qualitative methods, social representations in the fields of individual and public health, vulnerability in fields like youth homelessness or (forced) migration. He is author of An Introduction to Qualitative Research (7th ed, 2023, Sage), Doing Interview Research (2022, Sage), Introducing Research Methodology (3rd ed, 2020, Sage), Doing Grounded Theory (2018, Sage) and editor of several SAGE Handbooks (of Qualitative Data Analysis, 2014; of Qualitative Data Collection, 2018; and of Qualitative Research Design, 2022). In 2019, Uwe Flick received the Lifetime Award in Qualitative Inquiry at the 15th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry. His current research is on peer relations of chronically ill young adults and their role in coping with the diseases and their impact on everyday lives under chronical conditions.