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Ch. 10 Collecting primary data using research interviews and research…
Ch. 10 Collecting primary data using research interviews and research diaries
Interviewing
Objective approach
Interview is seen as method to collect data from interviewee who is treated as witness to reality that exists independently from them
Subjective approach
Interview is seen as being socially constructed
Co-produced by views and interpretations of participant
And by interviewer who asks questions, responds to participant's views and interprets resulting data during data analysis
Types of interviews
Semi-structured interview
Non-standardised, qualitative research interview
Predetermined list of themes and key questions
Unstructured interview
Non-standardised, qualitative research interview
No predetermined themes or questions to structure interview
Exploratory and emergent, e.g. in-depth interview
You DO need to have some idea about topic, event or experience that you want to explore
Informal
Structured interview
Conducted using researcher-completed questionnaires
Based on predetermined set of identical questions
Quantifiable data, aka quantitative research interview
Interview types based on number of participants
One-to-one interview
Interview between interviewer and a single participant
Group interview
One-to-many interview
Interview between interviewer and small number of participants
You use a semi-structured or in-depth interview
Two-to-many interview
Interview conducted by 2 interviewers
1 leads discussion
1 takes notes
Purpose of research linked to interview type
Exploratory
Semi-structued or in-depth interviews
Qualitative interview and inductive research design approach
Descriptive
Structured interviews
Deductive research design approach
Explanatory
Semi-structued or structured interviews
Inductive or deductive research design approach
Evaluative
Semi-structured interviews
Inductive or deductive research design approach
Probing questions
Used to explore responses that are significant to the research topic
Worded like open questions but request a particular focus or direction