The Qualitative Research Interview: Participants' Responsive Participation in Knowledge Making

The qualitative research interview.

BACKGROUND Interviews are among the most familiar strategies for collecting qualitative data. The different qualitative interviewing strategies in common use emerged from diverse disciplinary perspectives resulting in a wide variation among interviewing approaches. Unlike the highly structured survey interviews and questionnaires used in epidemiology and most health services research, we examin...

The interview in qualitative research.

Methodological Issues in Qualitative Research with Minority Ethnic Research Participants

This article draws on qualitative research on the Chinese and Bangladeshi communities in Newcastle upon Tyne. In-depth household research that includes the participation of different family members for inter-generational perspectives is not only inclusive in its approach but also invaluable in policy research on minority ethnic groups. Household research can lead to analyses that are holistic a...

The qualitative interview in IS research: Examining the craft

The qualitative interview is one of the most important data gathering tools in qualitative research, yet it has remained an unexamined craft in IS research. This paper discusses the potential difficulties, pitfalls and problems of the qualitative interview in IS research. Building on Goffman’s seminal work on social life, the paper proposes a dramaturgical model as a useful way of conceptualizi...

Unblinding following trial participation: qualitative study of participants' perspectives.

BACKGROUND The implications of offering unblinding to trial participants to treatment arm after trial completion have been little explored. PURPOSE We sought to explore trial participants' perspectives on whether they would like to be unblinded as to the treatment arm to which they were allocated following involvement in a large randomised controlled trial (RCT). METHODS We conducted semi-s...