Part I: How to Understand Interview Research
Chapter 1: What Doing Interview Research Means Chapter 2: Theories and Epistemologies of Interviewing Chapter 3: When to Choose Interviews as a Research Method Chapter 4: Methods and Formats of Interviewing
Part II: Designing Interview Research
Chapter 5: Planning and Designing Interview Research Chapter 6: How Many Interviewees?: Sampling and Saturation Chapter 7: Accessing and Recruiting Participants
Part III: How to Conduct Interviews
Chapter 8: How to Respect and Protect: Ethics of Interviewing Chapter 9: Semi-structured Interviews: Working with Questions and Answers Chapter 10: Interviewing Experts and Elites Chapter 11: Integrating Narratives in Interviews: Episodic Interviews
Part IV: Doing Interviews in Contexts
Chapter 12: How to Work with Life Histories: Narrative Interviews Chapter 13: Working with Focus Groups as Interviews Chapter 14: Ask in the Field: Ethnographic and Mobile Interviewing Chapter 15: Doing Online Interviews
Part V: How to Work with Interview Data
Chapter 16: Working with Interview Data Chapter 17: Credibility and Transparency: Quality and Writing in Interview Research Chapter 18: From Interviewing to an Inner View: Critiques and Reflexivity
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.
