David Silverman este professor emeritus la Goldsmiths College din Londra. Este autor a numeroase carti din domeniul metodelor calitative: „Qualitative Methodology and Sociology” (1985); „Communication and Medical Practice” (1987); „Interpreting Qualitative Data: Mehtods for Analysing Talk, Text and Interaction” (1993); „Qualitative Research: Theory, Method and Practice” (1997); „Discourse of Counselling: HIV Counselling as Social Interaction” (1997); „Harvey Sacks: Social Science and Conversation Analysis” (1998); „Doing Qualitative Research: a Practical Handbook” (2000).