Uwe Flick is trained as a psychologist and a sociologist. He is currently Professor of Nursing Research Empirical (Qualitative Methods) in the Management Department of Nursing at the University Alice Salomon of Applied Sciences Berlin, Germany, Assistant Professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John's, Canada, and Visiting Professor in the School of Psychology at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in Santiago, Chile. Previously, he was Lecturer in Research Methodology at the Free University of Berlin, Reader and Assistant Professor in Qualitative Methods and Evaluation at the Technical University of Berlin, and Associate Professor and Head of Department of Medical Sociology at the Hannover Medical School. He has also held positions as a visitor at the London School of Economics, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, at Cambridge University (United Kingdom), Memorial University of St. John's (Canada), University of Lisbon (Portugal) and the School of Psychology at Massey University. His main research interests are qualitative methods, social in the fields of public health and individual representations and technological change in everyday life. He has compiled alone or in collaboration: Qualitative Research: A Handbook (Reinbeck: Rowohlt 2000, London: Sage, 2002), Psychology of Social the (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), Quality of Life and Health: Concepts, Methods and Applications (Berlin: Blackwell Science, 1995), and the perception quotidienne de la Santé et la Maladie: Theories subjectives Représentations et social (Paris: L'Harmattan, 1993).