Margarete Sandelowski, PhD, RN, FAAN
Margarete Sandelowski is Cary C. Boshamer Professor in the School of Nursing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is Director of the Annual Summer Institutes in Qualitative Research and of the Certificate Program in Qualitative Research offered at the School of Nursing. Her research is in the area of technology and gender, and qualitative methodology. She is currently principal investigator of a study, funded by the National Institute of Nursing Research (2005-2010), to develop methods to synthesize qualitative and quantitative research findings. She has over 125 publications in both nursing and social science venues, including the award-winning ethnographic work With child in mind: Studies of the personal encounter with infertility (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993), and two highly praised works in the area of social history, Pain, pleasure and American childbirth: From the Twilight Sleep to the Read Method, 1914-1960 (Greenwood Press, 1984), and Devices and desires: Gender, technology and American nursing (University of North Carolina Press, 2000). Her most recent book is Handbook for synthesizing qualitative research (Springer, 2007).