Doing interview research : the essential how to guide / by Uwe Flick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Flick, Uwe, 1956- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Research Methods & Evaluation--Interviewing--Qualitative Research.

Research Methods & Evaluation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (448 pages)

Edition:

1st edition.

Other Title:

Doing Interview Research

Place of Publication:

Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications Ltd., 2022.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Core Textbook.

Includes bibliographical references.

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ISBN:

1-03-623569-6

1-5297-7032-7

1-5297-7030-0

9781036235697

OCLC:

1315024904

Publisher Number:

T263374