Qualitative interviewing: conversational knowledge through research interviews

Introduction to qualitative interviewing -- research design in interview studies -- conducting and analyzing qualitative interviews -- writing up the methods section -- writing up the research findings -- discussion of qualitative interviewing.

"QUALITATIVE INTERVIEWING has today become a key method in the human and social sciences, and also in many other corners of the scientific landscape such as education and the health sciences. Some have even argued that interviewing has become the central resource through which the social sciences-and society-engage with the issues that concern us (Rapley, 2001). For as long as we know, human beings have used conversation as a central tool to obtain knowledge about others. People talk with others in order to learn about how they experience the world, how they think, act, feel and develop as individuals and in groups, and in recent decades such knowledge-producing conversations have been refined and discussed as interviews"--