Accomplishments

She has written or co-edited seven books. These include Good Days, Bad Days: The Self in Chronic Illness and Time (1991), which won two awards from the pacific Sociological Association and the Society of Symbolic Interaction and Constructing Grounded Theory: A Practical Guide Through Qualitative Analysis (2006), which has won a Critics’ Choice Award from the Educational Studies Association. She has also received the 2001 Feminist Mentors Award and the 2006 George Herbert Mead award from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction.

Her other books include The Social Reality of Death (1980), Aging, the Self, and Community (1992) which she co-edited with Jaber Gubrium, The Unknown Country: Death in Australia, Britain, and the U.S.A (1997) co-edited with Glennys Howarth and Allen Kellehear, Health, Illness and Healing: Society, Social Context, and Self (1999) co-edited with Debora Paterniti, and The SAGE Handbook of Grounded Theory (2007) co-edited with Antony Bryant.

She has written many articles and journals including Symbolic Interaction, Qualitative Inquiry, Qualitative Health Research, Sociological Perspectives, Sociological Research and Methods, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Teaching Sociology, Sociology of Health and Illness, Social Problems, Studies in Symbolic Interaction and Contemporary Sociology.