Dr Tom Andrews will join Professor Cathy Urquhart, Dr Anne-Marie Martin and Dr Shehr Bano Zaidi in a discussion on ‘Preparing for your Grounded Theory Phd Viva‘.
Tom Andrews PhD attended the first GT Seminar by Dr. Barney Glaser, held in Paris in April 2002 and many more over the next 15 years. He has published several peer-reviewed articles on GT and has presented at numerous conferences worldwide. He has supervised 7 PhD students to completion and examined 24 PhD theses. He has facilitated numerous GT troubleshooting seminars around the world, working alone and with colleagues. In 2020 together with a small group of grounded theory experts, he was one of the founding members of a coalition of grounded theorists, now the International Association of Grounded Theorists.
Tom is a retired lecturer in nursing, specialising in Intensive Care and a Fellow of the Grounded Theory Institute. He worked as an ICU nurse for many years, and following the award of a first class honours degree in from the University of Manchester, UK, he transferred to academia, where he completed an MSc (Nursing) and won a scholarship to do a PhD. Using Classic Grounded Theory, and from the perspective of nursing and medical staff, he researched the reasons for the delay in transferring medical/surgical patients from the wards to ICU. He developed a theory of “Worsening Progressions”. Following successful completion of the PhD in 2003, Tom moved to University College Cork, where he was appointed a lecturer in medical/surgical nursing.