Professor Carla Willig graduated from the University of Manchester in 1986. She then embarked upon postgraduate studies at the University of Cambridge where she was awarded an MPhil in Criminology in 1987. She stayed at Cambridge in order to conduct her doctoral research into the ′Social Construction of AIDS Knowledge′ which she completed in 1991.Professor Willig has held teaching positions at the University of Plymouth (1991-3) Middlesex University (1993-9) and City University London (1999 onwards). From 2001, she undertook additional training at Regents College, London, and qualified as an Existential Counselling Psychologist in 2005. Wendy is a critical psychologist, working mainly, these days, in health. On the basis of her work on alternative approaches to health behaviour, she was appointed by the UK′s NICE (National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) to its Development Group on Behaviour Change, preparing and disseminating recommendations to the National Health Service and other statutory bodies on ′best practice′ in relation to behaviour change interventions and programmes at individual, community and population levels. Wendy is currently the chair of the International Society for Critical Health Psychology (ISCHP).

The second edition of the SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research is an extraordinary compendium of the central current issues in qualitative research in psychology. Capturing the diversity and plurality of qualitative methods of investigation, this updated handbook also considers matters such as ethics and reflexivity shared across methods. Newly revised to include recent work in the burgeoning field of qualitative inquiry, it will be an essential companion for both new and experienced qualitative researchers.  Qualitative researchers in psychology owe a debt of gratitude to these editors for pulling this together.

• Introduction - Wendy Stainton-Rogers and Carla WilligSECTION ONE: METHODOLOGIES2. Thematic Analysis - Gareth Terry, Nikki Hayfield, Victoria Clarke & Virginia Braun3. Ethnography - Christine Griffin and Andrew Bengry-Howell4. Action Research - Carolyn Kagan, Mark Burton and Asiya Siddiquee5. Conversation Analysis - Sue Wilkinson and Celia Kitzinger6. Discursive Psychology - Sally Wiggins and Jonathan Potter7. Foucauldian Discourse Analysis - Michael Arribas-Ayllon and Valerie Walkerdine8. Psychoanalytic Approaches to Qualitative Psychology - Stephen Frosh and Lisa Saville Young9. Memory Work - Niamh Stephenson and Susan Kippax10. Narrative Inquiry - David Hiles, Ivo Cermák and Vladimír Chrz11. The Descriptive Phenomenological Psychological Method - Amedeo Giorgi, Barbro Giorgi and James Morley12. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis - Virginia Eatough and Jonathan A. Smith13. Q Methodology - Paul Stenner, Simon Watts and Marcia Worrell14. Grounded Theory Methods for Qualitative Psychology - Kathy Charmaz and Karen HenwoodSECTION TWO: PERSPECTIVES AND APPROACHES15. Ethics in Qualitative Psychological Research - Svend Brinkmann and Steinar Kvale16. Interpretation in Qualitative Research - Carla Willig17. Qualitative Methods in Feminist Psychology - Mary Gergen18. Postcolonialism and Psychology: growing interest and promising potential - Catriona Macleod, Sunil Bhatia and Shose Kessi19. Community Psychology - Adele V. Malpert, Sarah V. Suiter, Natalie M. Kivell, Douglas D. Perkins, Kimberly Bess, Scotney D. Evans, Carrie E. Hanlin, Patricia Conway, Diana McCown, and Isaac Prilleltensky 20. Social Representations - Uwe Flick and Juliet Foster21. Visual Approaches: Using and Interpreting Images - Paula Reavey and Katherine Johnson22. Netnography: Radical Participative Understanding for a Networked Communications Society - Robert Kozinets23. Using Computer Packages in Qualitative Research: exemplars, developments and challenges - Sarah L. Bulloch, Christina Silver and Nigel Fielding24. Mixing Qualitative and Quantitative Methods: A Pragmatic Approach - Lucy Yardley and Felicity L BishopSECTION THREE: APPLICATIONS25. Social Psychology - Steven D. Brown and Abigail Locke26. Health Psychology - Kerry Chamberlain and Michael Murray27. Developmental Psychology - Erica Burman28. Clinical Psychology - David Harper29. Qualitative Research in Counselling and Psychotherapy: History, Methods, Ethics, and Impact - Joseph G. Ponterotto, Jennie Park-Taylor, and Eric C. Chen30. Qualitative Methods in Organizational Psychology - Elena Doldor, Jo Silvester and Doyin Atewologun31. Forensic Psychology - Peter Banister32. Cultural Psychology - Leslie Swartz and Poul Rohleder33. Cognitive Psychology - Thomas C. Ormerod and Linden J. Ball34. Review and Prospect - Wendy Stainton-Rogers and Carla Willig