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.

Autorentext

Nigel King is Professor in Applied Psychology at the University of Huddersfield, UK. He has a long-standing interest in methods for applied qualitative research and is well known for his work on the Template Analysis style of thematic analysis. More recently, he has developed an interest in the use of participant-led diagrams in qualitative interviewing, including the Pictor technique which he developed with colleagues at Huddersfield. He is the author of Interviews in Qualitative Research (with Christine Horrocks and Jo Brooks (2nd edition, SAGE, 2018) and Template Analysis for Business and Management Students (with Jo Brooks; SAGE, 2017).

Inhalt

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