qualitative research methods conversational interviewing

This short course is adapted from a semester length graduate level course taught at MIT covering Qualitative Research Methods. This online course will focus specifically on teaching how to prepare for and conduct a conversational interview for data gathering purposes.

The following chapters address different ways of designing and conducting qualitative interview studies and how to write up the methodological procedures of an interview study and also the research findings.

Although informal conversations have a long tradition, we contend that they are an under-used and rather unsung method in qualitative, social research and can complement and add to more formal types of data created through interview.

A data-collection method that relies on casual, conversational, and informal interviewing. Despite its apparent conversational nature, the researcher usually has a set of particular questions or question areas in mind but allows the interview to unfold spontaneously.

In-depth interviews are a qualitative research method that follow a deceptively familiar logic of human interaction: they are conversations where people talk with each other, interact and...

Interviewing in qualitative research is much like good conversation. It is the process of extracting people’s experiences, describing how they felt about them and how they affected their lives. It is the most widely used method in qualitative research.