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 book has proved a valuable text for both the neophyte reasearch and for those more experienced. THe language used is user friendly with good explanations of the terminology. The chapters link well with each other providing a flow which enables the researcher to take one step at a time, therfore resulting in success. Students have found this an understandable read and takes a lot of the fear away from research .
This is a most useful text for students within clinical practice who face complex situations frequently. Combined with other core reading this text will assist the student with developing complex skills in reflective interviewing.
Differing views of module staff regarding content relevance particularly romanticism
This is an excellent book explaing the necessity of interviewing
A carefully crafted book that covers the interview process from beginning to the end. Strongly recommended to all interested in qualitative research
Overall this book provides very useful and practical tips for researchers. The examples provided are excellent and give students clear examples of how interviewing can be conducted. This is also combined with strong theortical underpinnings which add academic rigour. A very useful book for undergradute and post-graduate students that are considering interviews as part of their study.
This book is a first point of call for qualitative researchers
Found this really useful in Journalism Studies and have recommended it for students using this for dissertation too.
This is an excellent book on interviewing practice and its theoretical foundatations. I will require/highly recommend it for advanced UG and PG qualitative research modules It will be supplemental for earlier undergraduate students e.g. it is too narrow in focus to be one of a couple of required texts for a broad-based research methods module for second years.
