Interviewing: The Basics

Mark Holton is a human geographer who focuses on the social and cultural geographies of young people and youth culture. Mark has considerable experience in designing and utilising conventional and experimental qualitative techniques across a range of externally-funded research projects. This has resulted in a variety of methods-related outputs for leading academic journals (e.g. Area and Mobilities); chapters for academic reference titles (e.g. Handbook of Qualitative Research in Education and The SAGE Encyclopaedia of Higher Education); and online research methods guides (e.g. Oxford Bibliographies and SAGE Research Methods). Most recently, Mark co-edited Creative Methods for Human Geographers, a 29-chapter book that introduces, mainly novice, researchers to a range of creative approaches to research design.

• 0.Preface – about qualitative interviewing. Part One – Preparing Interviews. 1.‘A conversation with a purpose’? 2.Where do I begin? – The basics of interview design. 3.Structuring an interview – designing interview questions. 4.Making sense of positionality and power in interviews. 5.Ethics and ethical issues. Part Two - Doing Interviews. 6.'Doing’ interviews. 7.Using non-verbal materials in interview practice. 8.Digital interviewing. Part Three – Handling Interview Data. 9.What happens next? – On transcribing, coding and analysis. 10.Presenting data – putting your participants’ words on the page.