Qualitative Research Interviewing
Biographic Narrative and Semi-Structured Methods
- Tom Wengraf - Middlesex University, UK
Qualitative Research (General)
Unique in its conceptual coherence and the level of practical detail, this book provides a comprehensive resource for those concerned with the practice of semi-structured interviewing, the most commonly used interview approach in social research, and in particular for in-depth, biographic narrative interviewing. It covers the full range of practices from the identification of topics through to strategies for writing up research findings in diverse ways.
Excellent and detailed guidance on how to prepare for the biographical interview.
The purposes of ‘qualitative research interviewing’ are to introduce the reader to different approaches and frameworks for conducting structured and semi-structured interviews. This text is a fully comprehensive resource which discusses different conceptual frameworks available for analysing and making sense of interview transcripts. Examples of conceptual frameworks and guidelines are provided for conducting evaluations of transcripts and theoretical inferences from the data to build hypothesis or general models of typologies.
This text is recommended for researchers who seek to design research questions suitable for conducting in-depth interviews and make inferences from the data gathered. The level of the book is accessible to postgraduate and doctoral students as well as anyone working as part of a research team.
Great book for interview based research. great depth in semi-structured interviewing
This book offers students an in depth resource for certain methodological approaches
we would recommend it for any student undertaking narrative style research at masters + level
Tom Wengraf has produced a thorough and detailed guide to his biographical narrative method and the interviewing techniques which faciltate this approach. In this sense this text will be very useful, if not essential, for the student or academic researcher interested in following this specific method. This is a specialist text and not designed for students or researchers seeking instruction about general interviewing techniques. However, experienced researchers may find Wengraf opens up some new ideas and fresh ways of approaching narrative interviewing
Excellent for interview techniques
Excellent clear over view of this field. Valuable reading for students seeking to either understand or use this method in their research
An indepth consideration of a wide range of interviewing processes clearly described.
