Doing Interview Research
eBook - ePub

Doing Interview Research

The Essential How To Guide

  1. 448 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Doing Interview Research

The Essential How To Guide

About this book

If you want to use interview methods in your research project but are not sure where to start, this book will get you up and running. With hands-on advice for every stage of the social research process, it helps you succeed in every step, from understanding interview research through to designing and conducting your study and working with data. 

The book:

  • Discusses eight methods of interviewing in-depth, including semi-structured interviews, narrative interviews, focus groups and online interviews.
  • Features over 75 case studies of real interview research from across the globe, including Australia, Canada, Germany, Norway, the Philippines and South Africa.
  • Spotlights strategies for conducting ethical, inclusive research, including indigenous research approaches.

Packed not only with learning features - including learning objectives, checklists of questions to ask yourself at every stage of your project, practical exercises to help you put your learning into practice and further reading so you can broaden your knowledge - it is also supported by online resources such as annotated transcripts and videos of mock interviews to empower any social science student to use interview research methods with confidence.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Publisher Note
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Contents
  7. Extended Contents
  8. Illustration List
  9. Table List
  10. About the Author
  11. Preface
  12. Acknowledgements
  13. Discover the Online Resources
  14. I How to Understand Interview Research
  15. 1 What Doing Interview Research Means
  16. 2 Theories and Epistemologies of Interviewing
  17. 3 When to Choose Interviews as a Research Method
  18. 4 Methods and Formats of Interviewing
  19. II Designing Interview Research
  20. 5 Planning and Designing Interview Research
  21. 6 How Many Interviewees? Sampling and Saturation
  22. 7 Accessing and Recruiting Participants
  23. III How to Conduct Interviews
  24. 8 How to Respect and Protect Ethics of Interviewing
  25. 9 Semi-structured Interviews: Working with Questions and Answers
  26. 10 Interviewing Experts and Elites
  27. 11 Integrating Narratives in Interviews Episodic Interviews
  28. IV Doing Interviews in Contexts
  29. 12 How to Work with Life Histories Narrative Interviews
  30. 13 Working with Focus Groups as Interviews
  31. 14 Ask (in) the Field: Ethnographic and Mobile Interviewing
  32. 15 Doing Online Interviews
  33. V How to Work with Interview Data
  34. 16 Working with Interview Data
  35. 17 Credibility and Transparency Quality and Writing in Interview Research
  36. 18 From Interviewing to an Inner View Critiques and Reflexivity
  37. Glossary
  38. References
  39. Index