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This dynamic user-focused book will help you to get the data you want from your interviews. It provides practical guidance regarding technique, gives top-tips from real world case studies and shares achievable checklists and interview plans.

Whether you are doing interviews in your own research or just using other researchers’ data, this book will tell you everything you need to know about designing, planning, conducting and analyzing quality interviews. It explains how to:

-          Construct ethical research designs

-          Record and manage your data

-          Transcribe your notes

-          Analyse your findings

-          Disseminate your conclusions

Written using clear, jargon-free terminology and with coverage of practical, theoretical and philosophical issues all grounded in examples from real interviews, this is the ideal guide for new and experienced researchers alike.

Nigel King is Professor of Applied Psychology at the University of Huddersfield.

Christine Horrocks is Professor of Applied Social Psychology and Head of the Department of Psychology at Manchester Metropolitan University. 

Joanna Brooks is Lecturer in the Manchester Centre for Health Psychology at the University of Manchester. 

 

 


 
Introduction
 
Philosophical Assumptions
 
Ethics in Qualitative Interviewing
 
Designing an Interview Study
 
Carrying out Qualitative Interviews
 
Group Interviews
 
Remote Interviewing
 
Visual Methods in Qualitative Interviewing
 
Reflexivity and Qualitative Interviewing
 
An Introduction to Interview Data Analysis
 
Interviews in Phenomenological Research
 
Interviews and Discourse Analysis
 
Interviews and Narrative

The book besides having a general basic introduction text; generally does not cover my syllabus, and there are various other topics that I am planning to include in the course not presented in this book.

Mr Anıl Kandemir
Education, Middle East Technical University
November 15, 2019

A practical, detailed and comprehensive account of interviewing processes.

Dr Paul Demetriou-Crane
Education, Havering College of Further and Higher Education
March 9, 2019

A practical, detailed and comprehensive account of interviewing processes.

Dr Paul Demetriou-Crane
Education, Havering College of Further and Higher Education
March 9, 2019

A practical, detailed and comprehensive account of interviewing processes.

Dr Paul Demetriou-Crane
Education, Havering College of Further and Higher Education
March 9, 2019

A practical, detailed and comprehensive account of interviewing processes.

Dr Paul Demetriou-Crane
Education, Havering College of Further and Higher Education
March 9, 2019

This book is useful for those students undertaking qualitative research, helping them to identify areas that they can gather useful data from.

Mrs Susan Schofield
Equine, Myerscough College
November 13, 2019

excellent addition to current literature on the subject

Dr Janice Haigh
Education, childhood and Inclusion, Sheffield Hallam University
July 17, 2019

Useful explanation of the planning and process necessary.

Dr Peter Oakley
Humanities, Royal College of Art
May 18, 2020

An essential text in the field that deals exclusively with the primary data gathering approach in qualitative research. This provides key insight into best practice and pitfalls within the scope of field work and methodological requirements.

Dr Philip Bright
Research Department, European School of Osteopathy
February 14, 2019

This book has been revised to meet the needs of students and it offers 'get started', 'in depth', 'hands on', and 'explore further' advice for conducting qualitative interviews and analysing them.

Dr Maarit Virolainen
Department of Education, University of Jyväskylä
August 16, 2019