Week 3, Lecture 2 Interviewing: practical issues
AIMS
• By the end of this session you should be:
• Aware of the ethical and practical issues surrounding the conduct of a qualitative
interview
• Equipped to sensitively conduct qualitative interviews
• Familiar with the arguments for and against recording and transcribing interviews
• Understand the application of qualitative interviews to specific research topics
Standard qualitative interview
• Between five and 25 people is common
• (five to ten for undergraduates)
• One and a half hour interviews
• Semi-structured
• Purposive sampling
• Complemented with other methods
SETTING UP AN APPOINTMENT
• Combine professionalism with interest and compassion
• Explain about your research
• Give a good reason to respond
TIME SCALE
• Do not try to do too many interviews in one day
• Allow time after the interview
• Allow time for the interview to take longer than you had expected
• There is more to interviewing than interviewing!
Issues
• Role
• Think about how you will present yourself and how this will affect the interview
• Place
• if possible, choose a comfortable, small setting, with few distractions
• Conduct
• Try to think of the interview as a conversation with a difference
• the difference is: you are in control!
• Number of interviews
• How many should I do?
Beginning the Interview
• Typically, begin with an informal but topical chat
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