A Bryant
Biographic Data
| ID | 40944 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Bryant |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Bryant |
| SIGNATURE | BRYANT A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leeds Beckett University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2748-7395 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Lessons From Doctoral Qualitative Research
In the past 20-30 years the resources covering qualitative research practices have burgeoned, including handbooks and edited collections. These offer valuable starting points for doctoral and early-career researchers, but there is also a growing demand for first-hand accounts from those who have experienced doctoral research, addressing the complexities and nuances of actual research projects. This paper is based on the experiences of two recentl…
Whatever happened to F International
F International was a pioneering company set up by Dame Stephanie “Steve” Shirley in the 1960s specifically to provide flexible, free-lance opportunities for highly skilled women who needed to juggle childcare and other domestic or caring responsibilities with a desire to continue using and developing their programming and other computer-related skills and expertise. From the 1980s onwards it was lauded by many, with coverage in the media and in …
Continual Permutations of Misunderstanding
This article draws attention to the ways in which Grounded Theory Method (GTM) continues to be a target of criticism, misunderstanding, and ill-judgement more than 50 years after its first appearance. This disparagement originates in part from some key paradoxes in the method itself. Yet this is insignificant in contrast to the continuing antagonism emanating from outside the method, indicating critical limitations in the practices of the gatekee…
The Grounded Theory Method
The term grounded theory was introduced to the research lexicon by Barney Glaser and Anselm Strauss in the 1960s, particularly with the publication of The Discovery of Grounded Theory in 1967. The term itself is somewhat misleading since it does not refer to a theory per se but rather to a method that facilitates the development of new theoretical insights—grounded theories. In this chapter the method is outlined, together with some background to…
Liquid uncertainty, chaos and complexity
The gig economy has become a hot topic. The term itself derives from the world of entertainment, particularly live music, where performers striving for recognition hope to get a few 'gigs' - i.e. short-term and sporadic opportunities for paid employment, with the understanding that such engagements are limited and without any future obligation on either party - employer or employee. This seemingly gives both parties significant autonomy, albeit n…
The Sage Handbook of Current Developments in Grounded Theory
Grounded Theory and Grounded Theorizing
In the realm of Big Data
In 2008, Chris Anderson (2008), at that time the Editor–in–Chief of Wired, proposed that in the age of the petabyte, there was no longer any need for the scientific method, nor for models or theories. Although it might be contended that this was more provocation and journalistic hubris than formal or substantiated claim, the issue was taken up and has gathered momentum ever since. Indeed within a year or so of Anderson’s article, and a series of …
Knowledge management and diplomacy
In October 2009 the BBC aired a short series of radio programmes entitled Parting Shots. The programmes featured a series of final communications, called valedictory despatches, from British Ambassadors leaving their posts to take up duties elsewhere or retire from the Diplomatic Service. As opposed to being merely vehicles for conveying reflective and summary knowledge about countries for the benefit of successors as well as the Foreign Office i…
Where do Bunnys come from? From Hamsterdam to hubris
The Wire has not only been identified as one of the greatest television studies of the destitution of the modern American city through the genre of the police procedural, but it has also been hailed as a modern work of tragedy. The strength and depth of its characters confer upon them the tragic status of brave and courageous individuals battling the vagaries of fate. For Simon and Burns, the contemporary gods are, however, the faceless forces of…
Grounded Theory in Historical Perspective
Liquid Modernity, Complexity and Turbulence
The main ideas underlying Bauman's liquid modernity are explained and then extended to incorporate current ideas about complexity and turbulence. This combination is used to argue that although Bauman himself refuses to offer any resolution to the paradoxes of liquid modernity, complexity theory may be useful: in particular the argument that the seemingly chaotic may actually result in some sort of order. The section also points to the ways in wh…
Liquid Modernity
Wiki and the Agora
This article argues that those keen to characterise and harness the empowering potential of Information and Communications Technology [ICT] for development projects must understand that the very existence of this technology opens up alternative models of co-operation and collaboration. These models themselves necessitate breaking away from ‘traditional’ command-and-control models of management. One alternative is to persuade participants, or pote…
The Information Society
As the twenty-first century approaches ... the possibilities of a univerally opulent society being realised have appeared in the sense that [Adam] Smith envisioned it, and the information society that will emerge from the computer communications revolution will be a society that actually moves towards a universal society of plenty ... this is what I mean by “Computopia” (Masuda) Our culture ... is already committed to the proposition that the onl…
Liquid Modernity, Complexity and Turbulence
The main ideas underlying Bauman's liquid modernity are explained and then extended to incorporate current ideas about complexity and turbulence. This combination is used to argue that although Bauman himself refuses to offer any resolution to the paradoxes of liquid modernity, complexity theory may be useful: in particular the argument that the seemingly chaotic may actually result in some sort of order. The section also points to the ways in wh…
Where do Bunnys come from? From Hamsterdam to hubris
The Wire has not only been identified as one of the greatest television studies of the destitution of the modern American city through the genre of the police procedural, but it has also been hailed as a modern work of tragedy. The strength and depth of its characters confer upon them the tragic status of brave and courageous individuals battling the vagaries of fate. For Simon and Burns, the contemporary gods are, however, the faceless forces of…
Wiki and the Agora
This article argues that those keen to characterise and harness the empowering potential of Information and Communications Technology [ICT] for development projects must understand that the very existence of this technology opens up alternative models of co-operation and collaboration. These models themselves necessitate breaking away from ‘traditional’ command-and-control models of management. One alternative is to persuade participants, or pote…
The Information Society
As the twenty-first century approaches ... the possibilities of a univerally opulent society being realised have appeared in the sense that [Adam] Smith envisioned it, and the information society that will emerge from the computer communications revolution will be a society that actually moves towards a universal society of plenty ... this is what I mean by “Computopia” (Masuda) Our culture ... is already committed to the proposition that the onl…
Wiki and the Agora
This article argues that those keen to characterise and harness the empowering potential of Information and Communications Technology [ICT] for development projects must understand that the very existence of this technology opens up alternative models of co-operation and collaboration. These models themselves necessitate breaking away from ‘traditional’ command-and-control models of management. One alternative is to persuade participants, or pote…
Grounded Theory in Historical Perspective
Liquid Modernity, Complexity and Turbulence
The main ideas underlying Bauman's liquid modernity are explained and then extended to incorporate current ideas about complexity and turbulence. This combination is used to argue that although Bauman himself refuses to offer any resolution to the paradoxes of liquid modernity, complexity theory may be useful: in particular the argument that the seemingly chaotic may actually result in some sort of order. The section also points to the ways in wh…
Liquid Modernity
Knowledge management and diplomacy
In October 2009 the BBC aired a short series of radio programmes entitled Parting Shots. The programmes featured a series of final communications, called valedictory despatches, from British Ambassadors leaving their posts to take up duties elsewhere or retire from the Diplomatic Service. As opposed to being merely vehicles for conveying reflective and summary knowledge about countries for the benefit of successors as well as the Foreign Office i…
Where do Bunnys come from? From Hamsterdam to hubris
The Wire has not only been identified as one of the greatest television studies of the destitution of the modern American city through the genre of the police procedural, but it has also been hailed as a modern work of tragedy. The strength and depth of its characters confer upon them the tragic status of brave and courageous individuals battling the vagaries of fate. For Simon and Burns, the contemporary gods are, however, the faceless forces of…
In the realm of Big Data
In 2008, Chris Anderson (2008), at that time the Editor–in–Chief of Wired, proposed that in the age of the petabyte, there was no longer any need for the scientific method, nor for models or theories. Although it might be contended that this was more provocation and journalistic hubris than formal or substantiated claim, the issue was taken up and has gathered momentum ever since. Indeed within a year or so of Anderson’s article, and a series of …
Grounded Theory and Grounded Theorizing
The Sage Handbook of Current Developments in Grounded Theory
The Grounded Theory Method
The term grounded theory was introduced to the research lexicon by Barney Glaser and Anselm Strauss in the 1960s, particularly with the publication of The Discovery of Grounded Theory in 1967. The term itself is somewhat misleading since it does not refer to a theory per se but rather to a method that facilitates the development of new theoretical insights—grounded theories. In this chapter the method is outlined, together with some background to…
Liquid uncertainty, chaos and complexity
The gig economy has become a hot topic. The term itself derives from the world of entertainment, particularly live music, where performers striving for recognition hope to get a few 'gigs' - i.e. short-term and sporadic opportunities for paid employment, with the understanding that such engagements are limited and without any future obligation on either party - employer or employee. This seemingly gives both parties significant autonomy, albeit n…
Continual Permutations of Misunderstanding
This article draws attention to the ways in which Grounded Theory Method (GTM) continues to be a target of criticism, misunderstanding, and ill-judgement more than 50 years after its first appearance. This disparagement originates in part from some key paradoxes in the method itself. Yet this is insignificant in contrast to the continuing antagonism emanating from outside the method, indicating critical limitations in the practices of the gatekee…
Whatever happened to F International
F International was a pioneering company set up by Dame Stephanie “Steve” Shirley in the 1960s specifically to provide flexible, free-lance opportunities for highly skilled women who needed to juggle childcare and other domestic or caring responsibilities with a desire to continue using and developing their programming and other computer-related skills and expertise. From the 1980s onwards it was lauded by many, with coverage in the media and in …
Lessons From Doctoral Qualitative Research
In the past 20-30 years the resources covering qualitative research practices have burgeoned, including handbooks and edited collections. These offer valuable starting points for doctoral and early-career researchers, but there is also a growing demand for first-hand accounts from those who have experienced doctoral research, addressing the complexities and nuances of actual research projects. This paper is based on the experiences of two recentl…
Sociology (11 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Qualitative Research Methods and Applications (6 works) · Grounded theory (5 works) · Qualitative research (5 works) · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics (5 works)