Interviewing is an invaluable tool for the qualitative researcher. Steinar Kvale provides
coverage of both the theoretical background and the practical aspects of the interview …

Qualitative interviewing is a foundational method in qualitative research and is widely used
in health research and the social sciences. Both qualitative semi-structured and in-depth …

Doing interview research has become one of the most prominent ways of doing qualitative
research and of doing social research in general. We find a broad research practice in …

conversation (Kvale 1996), with the emphasis on researchers asking questions and
listening, and respondents answering (Rubin and Rubin 1995). It is similar to standardized …

Interview research is a craft, which is learned through practising interviewing. This book
prepares for learning interviewing in practice; it addresses hands-on issues of how to carry …

1. The structured interview• The key feature of the structured interview is in the pre-planning
of all the questions asked.• Structured interviews also allow for exact replication of the …

Interviews are omnipresent in contemporary society, and as a genre take in journalistic,
media, clinical, job, parent–teacher, and research interviews among others. What these …

The First Edition of InterViews has provided students and professionals in a wide variety of
disciplines with the “whys” and “hows” of research interviewing, preparing students for …

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme
and is available on bloomsburycollections. com. What is Qualitative Interviewing? is an …

I begin by examining theoretical conceptualizations of qualitative interviews. Second, I
discuss steps that researchers take in preparing interview data for analysis. Third, I explore …