A Practical Introduction to In-depth Interviewing
- Alan Morris - University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Are you new to qualitative research or a bit rusty and in need of some inspiration? Are you doing a research project involving in-depth interviews? Are you nervous about carrying out your interviews?
This book will help you complete your qualitative research project by providing a nuts and bolts introduction to interviewing. With coverage of ethics, preparation strategies and advice for handling the unexpected in the field, this handy guide will help you get to grips with the basics of interviewing before embarking on your research. While recognising that your research question and the context of your research will drive your approach to interviewing, this book provides practical advice often skipped in traditional methods textbooks.
Written with the needs of social science students and those new to qualitative research in mind, the book will help you plan, prepare for, carry out and analyse your interviews.
This is a concise and very good introduction to qualitative interviewing that covers all the major steps in conducting qualitative interviews. It does not approach the topic from a political science perspective (which would have been ideal for my purposes) but is still very much accessible to political science students. An excellent book that my students will benefit from immensely.
This is a very useful text to enable under and postgraduate students explore the various elements involved in conducting interviews.
We are not allowed to "adopt" textbooks, but we can strongly suggest to students. About 1/4 of my dissertation seminar bought the book on their own.
This book is a very useful resource for those who chose to conduct qualitative research using interviews. Equally good for undergraduate and postgraduate level.
A good book to introduce students to the art of interviewing. Very easy to read.
Fits with objectives.
The text is highly engaging and accessible, providing essential knowledge of interviewing. Students will find it very helpful
This is a useful introductory book for students starting to undertake interviews as a means of data collection.
A most useful resource for PG dissertation students who wish to engage with qualitative research methods.
This would be recommended as supplementary reading for those students wishing to undertake interviewing but would be done on an individual basis. However, I would also find this very useful for my own Doctorate studies and I will show my cohort and programme lead in relation to how clear and useful this text is
