* The most comprehensive book available on methods in research interviewing! * What is research interviewing? * What techniques are used? Exactly what do you do in each technique? * How is interview data analysed and written up? The robust, real-world approach makes this book appropriate for practitioner researchers and postgraduate students up to PhD level. Covers distance and face-to-face interviewing, from the un-structured and naturalistic to the highly structured, focused and time-efficient. Emphasis is placed on using the most appropriate methods for the research purpose and how to identify which method is practicable. Based on over thirty years of teaching and supervising research and postgraduate students, the author anticipates questions and difficulties at a level of practical detail. Practical and easy to use, this book is essential for anyone doing research interviewing.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface AcknowledgementsList of tablesList of figuresPART ONE: PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE1Research interviewing: key issues2The ethics of interviewing3The importance of question/topic development4Different techniques and the 'cost' development factor5The core skills of interviewingPART TWO: FACE-TO-FACE METHODS6Ethnographic methods: the interviewer as participant-observer in real-life contexts7The unstructured interview8The é lite interview9Group interviewing10The semi-structured interview11Structured interviewing: the use of recording schedules12The video interview13The interview as a qualitative experimentPART THREE: DISTANCE METHODS14The telephone interview15The e-mail interview16The 'open' questionnaire interviewPART FOUR: ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF CONTENT17Transcribing the interview18Narrative overview versus categorical analysis19Deriving categories (coding) from the data20Quantitative analysis of categorical data21Writing up interview data22Combining interview data with data from other sources ReferencesIndex
