Research Interviewing: The Range of Techniques

Dr. Bill Gillham has had over thirty years experience of teaching and supervising postgraduate and research students at the Universities of Nottingham and Strathclyde and from a new perspective, as PhD Coordinator in the School of Design at Glasgow School of Art. He has written, edited, contributed to, and translated over thirty books in areas as diverse as child safety, written and spoken language, introductory psychology, child development, and research methods.

• Preface AcknowledgementsList of tablesList of figuresPART ONE: PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE1Research interviewing: key issues2The ethics of interviewing3The importance of question/topic development4Different techniques and the ‘cost’ development factor5The core skills of interviewingPART TWO: FACE-TO-FACE METHODS6Ethnographic methods: the interviewer as participant-observer in real-life contexts7The unstructured interview8The élite interview9Group interviewing10The semi-structured interview11Structured interviewing: the use of recording schedules12The video interview13The interview as a qualitative experimentPART THREE: DISTANCE METHODS14The telephone interview15The e-mail interview16The ‘open’ questionnaire interviewPART FOUR: ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF CONTENT17Transcribing the interview18Narrative overview versus categorical analysis19Deriving categories (coding) from the data20Quantitative analysis of categorical data21Writing up interview data22Combining interview data with data from other sourcesReferencesIndex