Kathryn Wheeler

Dr Katy Wheeler is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at The University of Essex. Her research interests are in the fields of sustainability and consumption, and she has published widely within leading academic journal and two authored monographs, Fair-Trade and the Citizen-Consumer: Shopping for Justice (Palgrave: 2012) and Recycling and Consumption Work: Social and moral economies (Palgrave: 2015). She has also co-authored the textbook ‘How to do Qualitative Interviewing’ (SAGE, 2022 – with Morgan Brett). She has taught social science methodology courses for many years (both qualitative and quantitative), from introductory undergraduate to advanced postgraduate.