A widely published scholar, Peter Rothe has a rich background in analysing the social behaviour engaged in risk, safety, and injury. He has directed major qualitative research studies in traffic safety, education, trucking, criminology, health, injury control, counselling, First Nations, and gerontology. Dr. Rothe is presently a Senior Research Associate and Associate Professor with the Alberta Centre for Injury Control and Research at the University of Alberta.

".good, practical guide to a complex subject." Dave Bennett, CBRA

".[Rothe] introduces methods of inquiry and draws on his considerable research experience to guide potential researchers. His expositions of the sometimes confusing world of qualitative inquiry are entertaining, thorough and accurate." -Jeffrey E. Nash, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Southwest Missouri State University