Reflective Interviewing
A Guide to Theory and Practice
- Kathryn Roulston - University of Georgia, USA
In order to undertake quality research using qualitative interviews, a researcher must be able to theorize the application of interviews to investigate research problems in social science research. As part of this process, researchers examine their subject positions in relation to participants, and examine their interview interactions systematically to inform research design. This book provides a practical approach to interviewing, helping researchers to learn about themselves as interviewers in ways that will inform the design, conduct, analysis and representation of interview data.
The author takes the reader through the practicalities of designing and conducting an interview study, and relates various forms of interview to different underlying epistemological assumptions about how knowledge is produced. The book concludes with practical advice and perspectives from experienced researchers who use interviews as a method of data generation.
This book is written for a multidisciplinary audience of students of qualitative research methods.
This is a very useful textbook for postgraduate courses and research students. There are now many good books on interviewing, but Kathryn Roulston's stands out in terms of its in-depth treatment of this method.
This is a great book, but due to costs of the other Sage texts that I adopted, will have to put this one aside.
Extremely useful, in depth guide to interviewing that several students will find useful as an additional reference book, alongside more generic research methods texts (especially at postgraduate level).
The book is valuable for those students undertaking extensive interviewing within their research.
It has helped to inform research proposals, supported procedures and promted refelection on the the production and language of the questiuoning used.
This is a useful book for those considering an interview based study. It encourages the researcher to explore the roles of reflection and reflexivity in interview based research.
another useful but very specific subject area. Useful for the post-graduates and those looking to use this technique as part of their dissertation/PhD
This will be part of my reading list for trainee teachers who are doing their research project.
An excellent text - I found discussion of theoretical perspective underpinning the different types of interviews very useful.
I also found discussion on analysing focus group interviews very useful.
will be asking both second and third year undergraduate social work students to buy this text.
A good thorough text of value to many researchers who use interview methods in their work - including those who do not necessarily consider their style to be 'reflective' as there are important lessons here for other interview approaches to learn from and, where possible, incorporate.
An carefully nuanced discussion of interviewing as a research practice. I was impressed by the way that Roulston introduced a series of issues that have been hotly debated by qualitative researchers. While not all our students use interviewing as a research method I am recommending it to those who do.
