Elaine Keane

Professor Elaine Keane, PhD, is Professor and Head of the Discipline of Education in the School of Education at the University of Galway, Ireland. Her research focuses on social class and education, teacher diversity, and constructivist grounded theory (CGT), on which she has published widely. On CGT, Elaine has collaborated and published with Professors Kathy Charmaz and Robert Thornberg and taught workshops in Ireland, the UK, Sweden, South Africa, and the USA, including with the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science at the University of North Carolina and ResearchTalk Inc. She has taught the CGT workshop at the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ICQI), at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, since 2015. Elaine is lead editor of the Routledge International Handbook of Constructivist Grounded Theory in Educational Research (2025). She has authored/co-authored chapters in methodology texts, including APA Handbook of Research Methods in Psychology (2023), The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research Design (2022), and The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research (5th ed., 2018). (Orcid)