Journal articles: 'Qualitative research interviews'

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Łątkowski, Mikołaj. "Remote qualitative interviews." Journal of Education Culture and Society 12, no. 1 (June 17, 2021): 202–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.15503/jecs2021.1.202.211.

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Aim. The aim of this article is to contribute towards a wider analysis of remote qualitative interviews taking into consideration the context of qualitative research as a social practice, which is often overlooked in the body of literature. Methods. The study is based on twelve in-depth interviews with qualitative researchers conducted by the author. The data is analysed with the focus on social aspects of qualitative interviews which engage the interviewee and the interviewer alike. Results and conclusion. The analysis shows that, from the perspective of the researcher, the social aspects of qualitative interviews constitute an important part of the research method. The interview is a meeting that combines methodological features with the attitude of involved people. Researchers are accustomed to in-person interviews and from that perspective, they evaluate possible losses caused by remote research. However, as they self-reflect, this is not always an inherent feature of the new media but rather a question of how they are used and by whom. The interview is a meeting that utilises communication habits and experiences from both sides of the conversation – the interviewer and the interviewee. It is important to take this fact into consideration while analysing the potential of remote interviews, especially when social isolation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic is changing our communication habits. Cognitive value. The remote qualitative interviews are often described from the perspective of usability and effectiveness. This article describes researchers as a part of the research process who have their own attitudes and experiences in conducting research. From the perspective of social practices, these are almost as important as the knowledge and attitude of interviewees and they also affect the results of the research process.

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Chahal, Aksh. "Interviews in qualitative health care research." Revista Pesquisa em Fisioterapia 11, no. 1 (January 29, 2021): 218–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.17267/2238-2704rpf.v11i1.3450.

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INTRODUCTION: Interview is a conversation to procure information where an interviewer performs the action of questioning and an interviewee responds to the asked questions. The widely used modes are ‘Face-to-Face Interview’, ‘Telephonic Interview’, and ‘Interview via Electronic/Multimedia’ approach. Information acquisitions via interviews have proved their practicality under a wide range of considerations and aspects in domains of healthcare, social sciences, management, etc. Proper selection of the method right from planning, and establishment deliver the required information to the interviewer in the best expressible, and documented form to deliver results bringing the best after a whole planned workout of an interview. OBJECTIVE: In the present article, the author would be focused on the interview categorization in qualitative health care research. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Only PubMed and SCOPUS Databases were searched from inception to September 2020 for this narrative review. Only English language articles were searched with keywords, “Interview”, “Face-to-Face”, “Qualitative research” and “Category of Interview” and linked with Boolean words such as, “AND”, “OR” and “NOT”. Conference abstracts and proceedings articles were excluded. This narrative review did not followed PRISMA statement. RESULTS: The selection of interviews to be used in qualitative health care research should be based on time allocation, gender, prioritization of privacy, and requirement of the content of information. The interviewer should ask one question at a time, present with normalcy in facial and body expression following response even after noting the answers to be unpredictable and encourage the response rate to the highest for optimizing the results obtained. CONCLUSION: Various important aspects of interview in qualitative health care research has been discussed in this narrative review.

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Rossetto, Kelly R. "Qualitative research interviews." Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 31, no. 4 (February 17, 2014): 482–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0265407514522892.

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Knox, Sarah, and Alan W. Burkard. "Qualitative research interviews." Psychotherapy Research 19, no. 4-5 (July 2009): 566–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10503300802702105.

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Britten, N. "Qualitative Research: Qualitative interviews in medical research." BMJ 311, no. 6999 (July 22, 1995): 251–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.311.6999.251.

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Peters, Kath, and Elizabeth Halcomb. "Interviews in qualitative research." Nurse Researcher 22, no. 4 (March 18, 2015): 6–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.7748/nr.22.4.6.s2.

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Harskamp, Anna, and Noble House. "Interviews in qualitative research." Educational Psychology in Practice 35, no. 4 (June 24, 2019): 440–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02667363.2019.1625240.

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Silver, Michelle. "Qualitative Interview Analysis: Unpacking Packed Interviews." Innovation in Aging 4, Supplement_1 (December 1, 2020): 42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.136.

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Abstract Retirement is an ever-evolving, dynamic, and complex social construct we associate with the end of one’s career. Exploring what retirement means to different people can contribute to a better understanding of the implications of this important transition at the individual and societal level. However, sifting through participants stories is not always a straightforward endeavor, particularly in the case when participants have something to hide. This paper examines the value of qualitative research methods in unpacking complex personal narratives. As the landscape surrounding mature workers’ experiences continues to change, this paper extends policy debates about retirement, as well as scholarly conversations about the richness and complexity of qualitative research.

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Phillips, Robyn, and Ruth Davies. "Using interviews in qualitative research." British Journal of Midwifery 3, no. 12 (December 2, 1995): 647–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.12968/bjom.1995.3.12.647.

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Aarsand, Liselott, and Pål Aarsand. "Framing and switches at the outset of qualitative research interviews." Qualitative Research 19, no. 6 (December 29, 2018): 635–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468794118816623.

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The article focuses on the opening sequences in qualitative research interviews and in particular examines the interactive work of achieving ‘topic talk’. Using the concepts of activity types, activity frames and contextualization cues, a close-up analysis of eight focus-group interviews and 12 semi-structured interviews was conducted. The findings show that the interviewees display familiarity with the interview as an activity type and how it is to be socially organized. However, to create a joint focus of attention, thereby getting off to an adequate start, the participants also need to agree upon an activity frame and a distribution of positions to achieve a frame switch, which here emerges through the interactional work of announcing, customizing and approving. Accordingly, by highlighting the communicative and practical circumstances of qualitative research interviewing, the opening sequences are considered to be a delicate interactive affair, however, where the interviewer has to take the main responsibility.

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Burns, Edgar. "Developing Email Interview Practices in Qualitative Research." Sociological Research Online 15, no. 4 (November 2010): 24–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.5153/sro.2232.

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This article describes using email as a kind of interview. In a sociological study of professional career transition into law, on several occasions in that study, interview participants suggested using emails rather than face-to-face interviews. This ‘irregularity’ set off reflection whether email interviews counted as ‘proper’ interviews. Discussing examples of email interviews clarifies differences from other uses of email in research, and assists exploration of advantages and disadvantages of email interviews as a qualitative research method. A preliminary framework is suggested for evaluation the suitability of email interviews. Present-day limitations point to continuing development in this area of social research. Current indications are that emergent media technologies such as email interviews, like other new media innovations, do not diminish older forms, but rather enrich the array of investigatory tools available for social research today.

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Roulston, Kathryn. "Qualitative interviewing and epistemics." Qualitative Research 18, no. 3 (August 4, 2017): 322–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468794117721738.

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Work on epistemics in conversation analysis (CA) has demonstrated how speakers attend closely to the knowledge claims they and others make and how this shapes interaction. This paper uses work on epistemics in CA to explore how interviewers and interviewees orient to knowledge claims involving the asking and answering of questions. Since research participants are recruited to represent a category identified by the researcher, interviewees are assumed to have greater knowledge relative to the research topic as compared to interviewers, who typically work to demonstrate that they are eager learners about others’ experiences, perceptions and beliefs and so forth. This paper examines sequences from research interviews to focus on the fine-grained work involved in asking questions and making knowledge claims within interviews. Epistemics provides a powerful tool to examine how speakers’ orientations to others’ knowledge claims is central to the interactional work of conducting interviews.

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Adriansen, Hanne Kirstine. "Timeline interviews: A tool for conducting life history research." Qualitative Studies 3, no. 1 (April 10, 2012): 40–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/qs.v3i1.6272.

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The aim of this paper is to explain and discuss timeline interviews as a method for doing life history research. It is a ‘how to’ article explaining the strengths and weaknesses of using a timeline when conducting qualitative interviews. The method allows the interviewee to participate in the reporting of the interview which may give raise to ownership and sharing of the analytical power in the interview situation. Exactly for this reason, it may not be the most appropriate method for interviewing elites or for conducting insider interviews where positionality can be at play. The use of the timeline should not lead the interviewer or the interviewee to assume linearity and coherence; it is an organising principle for the events. It provides an opportunity for linking the story with the wider social, political and environmental context during the interview. While the method is very suitable for life story research, it can also be used for other types of studies where interviews are made.

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Ji, Ping, Hongling Chu, Chao Zhang, Ping Xiao, Min Liu, Liping Zhou, Haibo Wang, Yanfang Wang, and Yangfeng Wu. "How to strengthen clinical research in Shenzhen, China: qualitative study." BMJ Open 9, no. 4 (April 2019): e024534. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-024534.

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ObjectivesTo better understand the strengths and weaknesses, and to propose policy recommendations, regarding conducting high-quality clinical research in Shenzhen, China.DesignA qualitative study conducted from August to November 2016 using a semistructured interview format involving both focus group interviews and individual interviews.SettingShenzhen, China.ParticipantsStratified purposive and convenience sampling were used. Thirty individuals experienced in conducting and managing clinical research were selected from key stakeholder groups, comprising 11 from local hospitals, 14 from pharmaceutical/medical device companies and 5 from government agencies.MethodsA semistructured interview guide was developed by the study group and used by experienced interviewers in focus group discussions and individual interviews. The interviewees were encouraged to share their opinions freely and discuss their own topics of interest during the interviews. Thematic analysis was used for analysis and all data were coded and extracted using NVivo V.11.0 software.ResultsFavourable driving factors for clinical research in Shenzhen identified by all stakeholders included the recent trend of increased governmental funding for clinical research, supportive governmental policies, wide recognition of the value of clinical research and high demands from local industry. The major challenges include a lack of technical infrastructure, weak human research subject protection and a lack of capable research resources.ConclusionsDespite the established strengths, Shenzhen still needs to develop suitable technical platforms, human resources training programmes and strong human research subject protection programmes pertaining to clinical research. This would facilitate the establishment of a functional system that can be expected to lead to increased medical research innovation in Shenzhen.

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Kvale, Steinar. "Ten standard Objections to Qualitative Research Interviews." Journal of Phenomenological Psychology 25, no. 2 (1994): 147–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156916294x00016.

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AbstractQualitative research has tended to evoke rather stereotyped objections from the mainstream of social science. Ten standardized responses to the stimulus "qualitative research interview" are discussed: it is not scientific, not objective, not trustworthy, nor reliable, not intersubjective, not a formalized method, not hypothesis testing, not quantitative, not generalizable, and not valid. With the objections to qualitative interviews highly predictable, they may be taken into account when designing, reporting, and defending an interview study. As a help for new qualitative researchers, some of the issues, concepts, and arguments involved are outlined, and the relevancy of the standard objections is discussed. Alternative conceptions of qualitative research, coming from phenomenological and hermeneutical traditions, are suggested. The qualitative interview based on conversation and interaction here appears as a privileged access to a linguistically constituted social world.

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Pessoa, Alex Sandro Gomes, Erin Harper, Isabela Samogim Santos, and Marina Carvalho da Silva Gracino. "Using Reflexive Interviewing to Foster Deep Understanding of Research Participants’ Perspectives." International Journal of Qualitative Methods 18 (January 1, 2019): 160940691882502. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1609406918825026.

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It is usual that researchers, in the process of transcribing interviews or even during data analysis, realize that important issues were superficially mentioned by the interviewees, but for several possible reasons, these topics were not explored by the researcher in-depth or properly. It is also common during the interview to not realize that certain content evoked by the participants are connected to the research questions that originated the study. Similarly, some content brought in by the interviewees may seem confusing, contradictory, or even insufficient to be subjected to protocols of qualitative data analysis. This article aims to present a technique that allows researchers to have a deeper and more accurate understanding of the subjective topics that may emerge through a qualitative approach: the reflexive interview. This technique consists of the engagement of the interviewer and interviewee in the process of elaboration and collective understanding of the interviewee’s perspectives and experiences. Rather than only reporting their experiences descriptively, interviewees, with the support of interviewers, have the opportunity to share the meanings of the reality surrounding them and the events of their own lives, without being interpreted arbitrarily only by the interviewer. This article intends to conceptualize the reflexive interview, pointing out its benefits and the procedures necessary to employ it in a qualitative study. Two case studies are presented to the reader to illustrate the reflexivity processes that can engage participants through this resource, as well as how reflexive interviewing promotes a deep understanding of participants’ perspectives. Finally, general recommendations are provided, including examples of questions that can compose a script of a reflexive interview. It is hoped that this article provides a new resource for researchers interested in more accurately embodying participants’ perspectives and experiences.

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Tavory, Iddo. "Interviews and Inference: Making Sense of Interview Data in Qualitative Research." Qualitative Sociology 43, no. 4 (July 7, 2020): 449–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11133-020-09464-x.

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Güngör, Semra Kiranli, and Funda Özkara. "A Qualitative Research on Administration Ethics at School." Journal of Education and Training Studies 5, no. 11 (October 15, 2017): 44. http://dx.doi.org/10.11114/jets.v5i11.2705.

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The aim of the research is to reveal the opinions of the school administrators about the administration ethics. In this study, 30 administrators working in the middle schools of Eskişehir province center in the 2016–2017 academic year were reached. In the study, data were gathered by interview technique which is one of the qualitative research methods. All of the interviews were conducted by the researcher individually. During the interviews, voice recordings were made with the interviewers who consented to this and note-taking system was used with the interviewers who did not consent to voice recording. Data were analyzed by content analysis method. Analyzing the content of the interview, themes and sub-themes were created according to thematic coding. According to the results of the research, the administrators stated that there was no written professional ethical principles in the school and they did not need them. However, there are officially written professional ethical principles. According to school administrators, the source of unethical behavior is inadequacy and being under pressure by many factors. However, some administrators can ignore unethical behavior. School administrators prefer to give punishment to the staff directly who will act unethically. Ethical practices in school administrators' schools are not at the level as it is supposed to be and are not functional. School administrators indicate that there is a professional difference between men and women. It is obvious that school administrators who participated in this study have deficiencies in ethics in school administration.

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Flinders, David J. "InterViews: An introduction to qualitative research interviewing." Evaluation and Program Planning 20, no. 3 (August 1997): 287–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0149-7189(97)89858-8.

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Price, Bob. "Laddered questions and qualitative data research interviews." Journal of Advanced Nursing 37, no. 3 (February 2002): 273–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2648.2002.02086.x.

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Talmy, S., and K. Richards. "Theorizing Qualitative Research Interviews in Applied Linguistics." Applied Linguistics 32, no. 1 (November 25, 2010): 1–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/applin/amq045.

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McGrath, Cormac, Per J. Palmgren, and Matilda Liljedahl. "Twelve tips for conducting qualitative research interviews." Medical Teacher 41, no. 9 (September 28, 2018): 1002–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0142159x.2018.1497149.

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Christenberry, Tom. "Standalone Interviews Do Not Equal Qualitative Research." Nurse Author & Editor 27, no. 4 (December 2017): 1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1750-4910.2017.tb00255.x.

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Dilley, Patrick. "Interviews and the Philosophy of Qualitative Research." Journal of Higher Education 75, no. 1 (2004): 127–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jhe.2003.0049.

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Prior, Matthew T. "Accomplishing “rapport” in qualitative research interviews: Empathic moments in interaction." Applied Linguistics Review 9, no. 4 (October 25, 2018): 487–511. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/applirev-2017-0029.

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AbstractThis study seeks to bring a more interactionally grounded perspective to the concept of “rapport” and its relevance for qualitative interviewing practices. Building on work within conversation analysis (CA), it respecifies rapport as affiliation and, more specifically, empathy. Analysis centers on case study data from an interview with an asylum seeker from the Philippines. It examines how interviewer and interviewee move in and out of empathic moments across the interview sequences as they manage their affective stances related to the events the interviewee describes and, in turn, by managing their empathic alignments with each other. These empathic moments share a number of features: they primarily come after response delays and the interviewee’s response pursuits, they are part of assessment sequences built by lexical reformulation and repetition, they entail stance matching and upgrading mainly through the use of prosodic resources, and they involve the interviewee asserting his primary rights to characterize and assess his own experiences. The article concludes by recommending more attention to the affiliative and empathic dimensions of qualitative interviewing.

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Hunter, M. Gordon. "Creating Qualitative Interview Protocols." International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development 4, no. 3 (July 2012): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jskd.2012070101.

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This manuscript describes a technique which facilitates the documentation of research participant stories interpreting their experiences in response to a research question. From a Narrative Inquiry approach interview protocols were developed based upon the exploration of a research question. The technique may be applied when gathering qualitative data in one-on-one interviews. Each interview protocol provided consistency across a number of interviews; but also allowed for flexibility of responses by the research participant within their respective interviews. This document provides a description of a technique which addresses the conundrum of consistency and flexibility. Four different research projects are described in this manuscript. The specific interview protocol is presented and it is shown how the protocol serves to address the project’s research question. This document concludes with a description of how these techniques may be employed, in general, to contribute to the exploratory investigation of a research topic in business and management studies.

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Pezalla, Anne E., Jonathan Pettigrew, and Michelle Miller-Day. "Researching the researcher-as-instrument: an exercise in interviewer self-reflexivity." Qualitative Research 12, no. 2 (April 2012): 165–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468794111422107.

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Because the researcher is the instrument in semistructured or unstructured qualitative interviews, unique researcher characteristics have the potential to influence the collection of empirical materials. This concept, although widely acknowledged, has garnered little systematic investigation. This article discusses the interviewer characteristics of three different interviewers who are part of a qualitative research team. The researcher/interviewers – and authors of this article – reflect on their own and each other’s interviews and explore the ways in which individual interview practices create unique conversational spaces. The results suggest that certain interviewer characteristics may be more effective than others in eliciting detailed narratives from respondents depending on the perceived sensitivity of the topic, but that variation in interviewer characteristics may benefit rather than detract from the goals of team-based qualitative inquiry. The authors call for the inclusion of enhanced self-reflexivity in interviewer training and development activities and argue against standardization of interviewer practices in qualitative research teams.

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Elmholdt, Kasper, Michael John Gill, and Jeppe Agger Nielsen. "Building Theories From Qualitative Interview Research: How Many Interviews Do I Need?" Academy of Management Proceedings 2021, no. 1 (August 2021): 14737. http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2021.14737abstract.

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Comi, Alice, Nicole Bischof, and Martin J. Eppler. "Beyond projection: using collaborative visualization to conduct qualitative interviews." Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: An International Journal 9, no. 2 (June 3, 2014): 110–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/qrom-05-2012-1074.

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to argue for the reflective use of visual techniques in qualitative inter-viewing and suggests using visuals not only as projective techniques to elicit answers, but also as facilitation techniques throughout the interview process. Design/methodology/approach – By reflecting on their own research projects in organization and management studies, the authors develop a practical approach to visual interviewing – making use of both projective and facilitation techniques. The paper concludes by discussing the limitations of visualization techniques, and suggesting directions for future research on visually enhanced interviewing. Findings – The integration of projective and facilitation techniques enables the interviewer to build rapport with the respondent(s), and to elicit deeper answers by providing cognitive stimulation. In the course of the interview, such an integrative approach brings along further advantages, most notably focusing attention, maintaining interaction, and fostering the co-construction of knowledge between the interviewer and the interviewee(s). Originality/value – This paper is reflective of what is currently occurring in the field of qualitative interviewing, and presents a practical approach for the integration of visual projection and facilitation in qualitative interviews.

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Roulston, Kathryn. "Issues involved in methodological analyses of research interviews." Qualitative Research Journal 16, no. 1 (February 1, 2016): 68–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/qrj-02-2015-0015.

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to argue that qualitative researchers have much to learn from conducting methodological analyses of their own talk in relation to research participants in interviews. Yet there are specific difficulties in representing findings from methodological analyses of research interviews. Design/methodology/approach – Although qualitative researchers have for some time followed recommendations to analyze both “how” interview data are generated in addition to “what” is discussed, little has been written about the challenges of representing these sorts of analyses. The paper uses a case to first examine difficulties in the representation of an analysis of interview data that draws on discursive psychology. After discussing the case, the paper further explores the challenges of conducting and presenting these sorts of methodological analyses of interview data to research participants and readers in ways that clearly convey what might be learned by examining how interviews are accomplished. Findings – The paper outlines considerations for researchers in doing methodological analyses of interview data, including challenges, reconciling interpretations of “what” and “how” topics are discussed in research studies, and possible areas of focus. Research limitations/implications – This paper examines what researchers might learn from examinations of their own interview practice and does not focus on representations of topical analyses. Practical implications – The paper argues that when interviewers subject their own talk to analysis, they learn about themselves, their craft, and the ways in which knowledge about social worlds are collaboratively produced in research encounters with participants. Originality/value – By developing expertise in how to analyze their interview interaction methodologically, qualitative researchers can attend to significant features of their interview practice and in so doing, develop a reflexive research practice.

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McGuigan, Kate. "Interviews in qualitative research Nigel King Interviews in qualitative research and Christine Horrocks SAGE Publishing £21.99 248pp 9781412912570 1412912571." Nurse Researcher 18, no. 3 (April 15, 2011): 45. http://dx.doi.org/10.7748/nr.18.3.45.s1.

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Lo Iacono, Valeria, Paul Symonds, and David H. K. Brown. "Skype as a Tool for Qualitative Research Interviews." Sociological Research Online 21, no. 2 (May 2016): 103–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.5153/sro.3952.

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Internet based methods of communication are becoming increasingly important and influencing researchers’ options. VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) technologies (such as Skype and FaceTime) provide us with the ability to interview research participants using voice and video across the internet via a synchronous (real-time) connection. This paper highlights the advantages of using Skype to conduct qualitative interviews and weighs these advantages against any limitations and issues that using this tool may raise. This paper argues that Skype opens up new possibilities by allowing us to contact participants worldwide in a time efficient and financially affordable manner, thus increasing the variety of our samples. At the same time, the use of Skype affects the areas of rapport, non-verbal cues and ethics by creating limitations but also new opportunities. The observations in this paper stem from two different researches, carried out by the authors, on dance (as a form of trans/cultural heritage) and wayfinding (the experience of getting from A to B in various settings). These studies lent themselves to using Skype for qualitative interviews, because of the need to reach an international, varied and purposeful sample. The researchers’ experiences, combined with feedback from participants in Skype interviews, are used in this paper. The conclusion is that, although VoIP mediated interviews cannot completely replace face to face interaction, they work well as a viable alternative or complimentary data collection tool for qualitative researchers. This paper argues that VoIP based interviews offer new opportunities for researchers and should be embraced with confidence.

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Ponizovsky-Bergelson, Yael, Yael Dayan, Nira Wahle, and Dorit Roer-Strier. "A Qualitative Interview With Young Children: What Encourages or Inhibits Young Children’s Participation?" International Journal of Qualitative Methods 18 (January 1, 2019): 160940691984051. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1609406919840516.

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The goal of every qualitative interview is to produce rich data. Inducing storytelling is a challenge in every interview. Interviews with young children (ages 3–6) present an additional challenge because of perceived power differences between children and adults. This research examines how interviewers’ questions and expressions encourage or inhibit children from telling their stories. We extracted 1,339 child interviewee–adult interviewer turn exchanges from a national study on children’s perspectives on risk and protection ( N = 420) and analyzed them in two steps. First, we categorized the interviewers’ questions and expressions and children’s responses. Seven categories were found for interviewer expressions and five for children’s responses. We then examined the relationship between interviewer categories and children’s responses. The categories that produced the richest data were encouragement, open-ended questions, and question request. Sequence of utterances and closed-ended questions produced the least storytelling. We did not find significant differences based on a child’s gender with regard to the interviewer categories. The results and implications for researching young children are addressed.

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Handy, Jocelyn, and Kirsty Ross. "Using Written Accounts in Qualitative Research." South Pacific Journal of Psychology 16 (2005): 40–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0257543400000067.

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AbstractThis article discusses the methodological implications of using written accounts as the primary source of data in qualitative research. Data from a pilot study into family relationships in two families with an anorexic child is presented to illustrate the ways in which this strategy can facilitate the interpretation of different family members' perspectives. Written accounts are shown to be a time-efficient means of gathering good-quality, descriptively rich data. Differences between oral and written modes of communication mean that participants' written accounts are more highly focused and reflective than transcripts from oral interviews, facilitating data analysis and interpretation. Relationships between researchers and researched are more circumscribed than in face-to-face interviewing, which may limit opportunities to explore emergent issues or make informal observations during the interview process. However, the more circumscribed contact between researchers and respondents may also make it easier to manage the complex social dynamics that can emerge when researching families. Whilst written accounts cannot be used as a direct substitute for oral interviews their strengths appear to be undervalued in qualitative research in psychology.

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Muylaert, Camila Junqueira, Vicente Sarubbi Jr, Paulo Rogério Gallo, Modesto Leite Rolim Neto, and Alberto Olavo Advincula Reis. "Narrative interviews: an important resource in qualitative research." Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP 48, spe2 (December 2014): 184–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s0080-623420140000800027.

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Objetives This methodological study explain and emphasize the extent and fertility of the narrative interview in qualitative research. Methods To describe the narrative method within the qualitative research. Results The qualitative research method is characterized by addressing issues related to the singularities of the field and individuals investigated, being the narrative interviews a powerful method for use by researchers who aggregate it. They allow the deepening of research, the combination of life stories with socio-historical contexts, making the understanding of the senses that produce changes in the beliefs and values that motivate and justify the actions of possible informants. Conclusion The use of narrative is an advantageous investigative resource in qualitative research, in which the narrative is a traditional form of communication whose purpose is to serve content from which the subjective experiences can be transmitted.

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SMITH, FELICITY. "HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH METHODS IN PHARMACY: Qualitative interviews." International Journal of Pharmacy Practice 6, no. 2 (June 1998): 97–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.2042-7174.1998.tb00923.x.

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Alamri, Wafaa Abdullah. "Effectiveness of Qualitative Research Methods: Interviews and Diaries." International Journal of English and Cultural Studies 2, no. 1 (May 28, 2019): 65. http://dx.doi.org/10.11114/ijecs.v2i1.4302.

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The present study aims to explore the effectiveness of qualitative research methods. The qualitative research method has been opted after a thorough literature examination. The concept of triangulation and the process of multi-method qualitative research on error correction and students’ motivation were also examined. The results discovered more about the participants as he or she reads their diaries containing their detailed opinions and feelings. Subjectivity is another remarkable feature of diaries for learners to improve their writing skills and to use diverse vocabulary to express their views and emotions. Reviewing the information within a diary helps people to judge their behaviour and others, towards certain events. It was depicted that the triangulation method assists to have a more in-depth understanding of the recorded entries in the diaries by using semi-structured interviews. Both approaches were found to comprise of advantages and disadvantage, where the selection is based on the nature of the study and the understanding of the researcher. The results of the present study help guide the researcher in determining the specific choice of study.

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Vaivio, Juhani. "Interviews – Learning the Craft of Qualitative Research Interviewing." European Accounting Review 21, no. 1 (May 2012): 186–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09638180.2012.675165.

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MURRAY, B. LEE. "Qualitative research interviews: therapeutic benefits for the participants." Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing 10, no. 2 (March 27, 2003): 233–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2850.2003.00553.x.

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Leh, Almut, Joachim Köhler, Michael Gref, and Nikolaus P. Himmelmann. "Speech Analytics in Research Based on Qualitative Interviews." Audiovisual Data in Digital Humanities 7, no. 14 (December 31, 2018): 138. http://dx.doi.org/10.18146/2213-0969.2018.jethc158.

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The paper presents aims and results of the project KA³ (Kölner Zentrum Analyse und Archivierung von audio-visual-Daten), in which advanced speech technologies are developed and provided to enhance the process of indexing and analysing speech recordings from the oral history domain and the language sciences. Close cooperation between speech technology scientists and digital humanities researchers is an important aspect of the project making sure that the development of the technologies answers the needs of research based on qualitative audio-visual interviews. For practical research reasons, the project focuses on the audio aspect, although visual aspects are of course equally important for the analysis of audio-visual data. The Cologne Centre for Analysis and Archiving of audio-visual data will provide the technologies as a central service.

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Bullock, Alison. "Conduct one-to-one qualitative interviews for research." Education for Primary Care 27, no. 4 (April 26, 2016): 330–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14739879.2016.1176874.

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Adhabi, Essa Ali R., and Christina B. Lash Anozie. "Literature Review for the Type of Interview in Qualitative Research." International Journal of Education 9, no. 3 (September 20, 2017): 86. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/ije.v9i3.11483.

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In carrying out qualitative studies, the important issue is the quality of data collected, which is dependent on the mode of data collection used. The interview is one of the data collection techniques for qualitative researchers. Distinct from other methods, interviews have unique features that make them superior. As such, the current study explores relevant issues that are linked to interviews, especially aspects that make them central to qualitative data collection. Besides the historical appeal, the discussion covers the advantages a researcher experiences while using interviews to collect data. They require a personal commitment of both the participant and researcher. Significantly, time and resource allocation are also required. With the emerging technology, implementation of the interview process is becoming flexible thus moving away from the rigid face to face mode. Besides their strengths, there are also challenges and ethical dilemmas that are linked to interviews. As a perfect qualitative data collection method, researchers have professional issues that they have a deal with throughout the process. The link between all these issues is the subject area of the current discussion, which tackles each factor separately.

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Talmy, Steven. "Qualitative Interviews in Applied Linguistics: From Research Instrument to Social Practice." Annual Review of Applied Linguistics 30 (March 2010): 128–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0267190510000085.

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Interviews have been used for decades in empirical inquiry across the social sciences as one or the primary means of generating data. In applied linguistics, interview research has increased dramatically in recent years, particularly in qualitative studies that aim to investigate participants’ identities, experiences, beliefs, and orientations toward a range of phenomena. However, despite the proliferation of interview research in qualitative applied linguistics, it has become equally apparent that there is a profound inconsistency in how the interview has been and continues to be theorized in the field. This article critically reviews a selection of applied linguistics research from the past 5 years that uses interviews in case study, ethnographic, narrative, (auto)biographical, and related qualitative frameworks, focusing in particular on the ideologies of language, communication, and the interview, or the communicable cartographies of interviewing, that are evident in them. By contrasting what is referred to as an interview as research instrument perspective with a research interview as social practice orientation, the article argues for greater reflexivity about the interview methods that qualitative applied linguists use in their studies, the status ascribed to interview data, and how those data are analyzed and represented.

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Marshall, Bryan, Peter Cardon, Amit Poddar, and Renee Fontenot. "Does Sample Size Matter in Qualitative Research?: A Review of Qualitative Interviews in is Research." Journal of Computer Information Systems 54, no. 1 (September 2013): 11–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08874417.2013.11645667.

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Haahr, Anita, Annelise Norlyk, and Elisabeth OC Hall. "Ethical challenges embedded in qualitative research interviews with close relatives." Nursing Ethics 21, no. 1 (June 17, 2013): 6–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0969733013486370.

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Nurse researchers engaged in qualitative interviews with patients and spouses in healthcare may often experience being in unforeseen ethical dilemmas. Researchers are guided by the bioethical principles of justice, beneficence, non-maleficence, respect for human rights and respect for autonomy through the entire research process. However, these principles are not sufficient to prepare researchers for unanticipated ethical dilemmas related to qualitative research interviews. We describe and discuss ethically challenging and difficult moments embedded in two cases from our own phenomenological interview studies. We argue that qualitative interviews involve navigation between being guided by bioethics as a researcher, being a therapist/nurse and being a fellow human being or even a friend. The researchers’ premises to react to unexpected situations and act in a sound ethical manner must be enhanced, and there is a need for an increased focus on the researchers’ ethical preparation and to continually address and discuss cases from their own interviews.

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Nguyen, Thi Quynh Trang. "Conducting semi-structured interviews with the Vietnamese." Qualitative Research Journal 15, no. 1 (February 2, 2015): 35–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/qrj-04-2014-0012.

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss several cultural and psychological aspects that the author experienced in the interview fieldwork with Vietnamese and the strategies to deal with these methodological issues. It aims to assist non-Vietnamese researchers planning their qualitative fieldwork with Vietnamese participants. Design/methodology/approach – The results are drawn from using an autoethnographic approach, in which the author presents and analyses the experiences of conducting individual semi-structured interviews with 15 Vietnamese college teachers in the PhD qualitative study on the Vietnamese concept of face – thê diên. Findings – The author argues that in interviews with Vietnamese participants, an interviewer should be mindful of the interviewees’ unfamiliarity with the ethics approval procedure, their reliance on relationship and trust, their self-face concern and low level of elaboration. It is important that the interviewer be seen as an “insider” by the Vietnamese interviewees, not an “objective” outsider researcher. In addition, an interviewer needs to be sensitive to detect any subtle cues that may emerge, and be flexible enough to adjust the interview questions if necessary and employ suitable techniques to adapt to these changes. Research limitations/implications – The findings were limited to the scope of experiences within a PhD study with a small group of college teachers. Experiences with larger groups of Vietnamese participants from diverse backgrounds may be needed to confirm the findings of this paper. Originality/value – This paper addresses the gap in the discussion of conducting qualitative research with the Vietnamese. It also discusses several issues that have not been discussed before, such as the Vietnamese unfamiliarity with the paperwork required for ethics approval and their face concerns in interviews.

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Stuckey, Heather. "Three types of interviews: Qualitative research methods in social health." Journal of Social Health and Diabetes 01, no. 02 (December 2013): 056–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2321-0656.115294.

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AbstractInterviewing is a primary way of collecting data in qualitative research to direct the participant in responding to a specific research question. In diabetes, this may include “what are the reasons that have contributed to your success in diabetes self-management” or “how do you believe stress impacts your blood glucose?” Three types of interviews are common in social health: (1) Structured; (2) semi-structured; and (3) narrative interview. These range in a format including specified sets of questions to the telling of patient stories in an organic way. This paper describes the differences between these types of interviews and examples of each related to diabetes research.

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Brannen, Julia. "Life Story Talk: Some Reflections on Narrative in Qualitative Interviews." Sociological Research Online 18, no. 2 (May 2013): 48–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.5153/sro.2884.

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The paper draws on the author's interview experiences and interrogates the conditions in which research interviews generate narratives and storytelling; interviews that do not invite storytelling and interviews where people were asked to give a life story. First, the paper considers the question as to what provokes storytelling. It suggests that people engage with the narrative mode to some extent under the conditions of their own choosing. Second, it examines the processes by which mean making is achieved in storytelling and made sense of by the research analyst. Contrasting two cases of Irish migrants, drawn from a study of fatherhood across three generations in Polish, Irish and white British families, the paper then considers issues of analysis. The argument is made that sociological qualitative research has to engage with narrative analysis and that this involves a close examination not only of what is told and not told but also the forms in which stories are told (the structuring of stories and their linguistic nuances), and the methods by which the interviewee draws in and persuades the listener. Lastly and most importantly, the paper concludes that attention should be made to talk and context in equal measure. It considers the importance of contextualisation of interview data contemporaneously and historically and the methodological strategies through which the researchers create second order narratives in the analysis of their research.

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Aarsand, Liselott, and Pål Aarsand. "The joint production of confession in qualitative research interviews." Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice 11, no. 3 (December 4, 2017): 227–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/japl.35209.

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Gill, P., K. Stewart, E. Treasure, and B. Chadwick. "Conducting qualitative interviews with school children in dental research." British Dental Journal 204, no. 7 (April 2008): 371–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.bdj.2008.245.

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