Introduction to In-Depth Interviews – March 2024
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A 3-Day Livestream Seminar Taught by Corey M. Abramson, Ph.D.
In-depth interviews play a vital role in the social sciences and applied research. Interviews offer a powerful tool to understand people’s accounts, experiences, narratives, and attitudes. While they are commonly a stand-alone research method, in-depth interviews are also frequently combined with surveys, participant observation, historical documents, and other data types.
While in-depth interviews are widespread, designing and executing an interview-based study successfully can be both challenging and rewarding. This course aims to help maximize the rewards, while providing resources to address the challenges.
Concretely, the course will equip you with skills necessary to:
- Design compelling interview studies.
- Conduct interviews face-to-face or remotely.
- Analyze the data.
- Present the findings.
The course is organized around the life of an in-depth interview study, covering each of the key stages of a project. We discuss the reasons to use interview methods (and how to justify them), how to design an interview guide, ways to recruit participants, how to successfully complete an interview (and how to manage difficulties), ways of making sense of data, and how to integrate findings into research products such as articles, books, and reports. We will also touch on topics such as multi-participant interviews, technology use, and ways interviews can be integrated into mixed-methods studies.
In this seminar, you will learn:
- The strengths of in-depth interviews as a data source.
- Principles of study design.
- Strategies for sampling and recruiting participants.
- Tips for crafting an effective interview guide.
- Ways of approaching interviewer effects and runaway interviews.
- A contemporary model of workflow to aid in analyzing qualitative interview data.
- How to identify patterns and themes in interview data.
- To write analytical memos to aid in producing reports, articles, and books.
- About technological considerations with data collection and analysis.
Besides lectures, in-person discussion, and an online discussion forum, this course will demonstrate data collection challenges using live mock interviews.
Venue: Livestream Seminar