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Doing Interview Research
The Essential How To Guide
Uwe Flick
- 448 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Doing Interview Research
The Essential How To Guide
Uwe Flick
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
- Cover
- Half Title
- Publisher Note
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Extended Contents
- Illustration List
- Table List
- About the Author
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Discover the Online Resources
- I How to Understand Interview Research
- 1 What Doing Interview Research Means
- 2 Theories and Epistemologies of Interviewing
- 3 When to Choose Interviews as a Research Method
- 4 Methods and Formats of Interviewing
- II Designing Interview Research
- 5 Planning and Designing Interview Research
- 6 How Many Interviewees? Sampling and Saturation
- 7 Accessing and Recruiting Participants
- III How to Conduct Interviews
- 8 How to Respect and Protect Ethics of Interviewing
- 9 Semi-structured Interviews: Working with Questions and Answers
- 10 Interviewing Experts and Elites
- 11 Integrating Narratives in Interviews Episodic Interviews
- IV Doing Interviews in Contexts
- 12 How to Work with Life Histories Narrative Interviews
- 13 Working with Focus Groups as Interviews
- 14 Ask (in) the Field: Ethnographic and Mobile Interviewing
- 15 Doing Online Interviews
- V How to Work with Interview Data
- 16 Working with Interview Data
- 17 Credibility and Transparency Quality and Writing in Interview Research
- 18 From Interviewing to an Inner View Critiques and Reflexivity
- Glossary
- References
- Index