Katy Wheeler

Dr. Katy Wheeler is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Essex. She has extensive experience of conducting qualitative interviews, including household interviews, expert interviews, and focus groups. Her research interests are in the fields of sustainability and consumption and she has published widely within leading academic journals and two books, Fair-Trade and the Citizen-Consumer: Shopping for Justice (Palgrave, 2012) and Recycling and Consumption Work: Social and moral economies (Palgrave, 2015). She is currently pursuing a project on sustainability education.

Dr. Katy Wheeler and Dr. Bethany Morgan Brett have co-authored a textbook How to Do Qualitative Interviewing (to be published by SAGE in 2021).