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Conducting Qualitative Interviews
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This practical text guides qualitative researchers and students in doing a study that involves interviewing as a form of data collection. Expert chapter authors demonstrate the practical concerns of planning an interview study and provide an understanding of the different types of interview and how those types are aligned to particular methodologies and theories within qualitative inquiry. Chapters also contemplate the value of using tools to support the interview data collection process, such as participatory techniques, the use of online modalities, and the value and critiques of incorporating artificial intelligence in interview research.


Jessica Lester, Michelle O"Reilly, Kathryn Roulston
The importance of planning an interview study
Michelle O'Reilly, Jessica Lester, Kathryn Roulston
Collecting data: Researcher generated versus naturally interviews
Michelle O'Reilly, Jessica Lester, Kathryn Roulston
The ethics of conducting qualitative research interviews
Michelle O'Reilly, Jessica Lester, Kathryn Roulston
Reflexivity in interviewing: A data-driven approach to gaining a deeper understanding of your subject
Michelle O'Reilly, Jessica Lester, Kathryn Roulston
Narrative interviews
Michelle O'Reilly, Jessica Lester, Kathryn Roulston
Reflective interviews
Michelle O'Reilly, Jessica Lester, Kathryn Roulston
Empathy interviews: Learning from experience
Michelle O'Reilly, Jessica Lester, Kathryn Roulston
Ethnographic interviewing
Michelle O'Reilly, Jessica Lester, Kathryn Roulston
Naturally occurring interviews
Michelle O'Reilly, Jessica Lester, Kathryn Roulston
In the field: Oral history methods and oral tradition with civil rights era teachers
Michelle O'Reilly, Jessica Lester, Kathryn Roulston
Feminist interviews: From margin to mainstream
Michelle O'Reilly, Jessica Lester, Kathryn Roulston
Psychoanalytically informed research interviews
Michelle O'Reilly, Jessica Lester, Kathryn Roulston
Phenomenological interviews
Michelle O'Reilly, Jessica Lester, Kathryn Roulston
Interviews that transform lives: Dialoguing for change
Michelle O'Reilly, Jessica Lester, Kathryn Roulston
The generic qualitative interview: The waters are still muddy
Michelle O'Reilly, Jessica Lester, Kathryn Roulston
Participatory interviewing
Michelle O'Reilly, Jessica Lester, Kathryn Roulston
Beyond elicitation: Considering the possibilities of object interviews in qualitative research
Michelle O'Reilly, Jessica Lester, Kathryn Roulston
Graphic elicitation interviews
Michelle O'Reilly, Jessica Lester, Kathryn Roulston
Listening with your whole body: Interviews as creative, affective, and relational practice
Michelle O'Reilly, Jessica Lester, Kathryn Roulston
Seeing the answer: Visual interviews online
Michelle O'Reilly, Jessica Lester, Kathryn Roulston
Using artificial intelligence (AI) in qualitative interview research
Michelle O'Reilly, Jessica Lester, Kathryn Roulston
Introduction to qualitative interviewing
Key features
  • Offers learning objectives, reflective activities to engage readers, tips to support the type of interview discussed, and lists of useful resources that will support the consolidation of the learning experience.
  • Brings together a large range of different areas of expertise is to dispel some misunderstandings that qualitative interviewing is a simple and standard way of collecting data and instead shows how different theoretical standpoints shape the interview style, question design, and interaction between interviewer and interviewee.
  • Includes traditional concerns and contemporary approaches including participatory techniques, the use of online modalities, and the value and critiques of incorporating artificial intelligence in interview research.