How to Do Qualitative Interviewing

From finding participants to writing your questions, this hands on book tells you everything you need to know when doing qualitative interviews.

This should be the go-to handbook for any qualitative researcher. A robust academic foundation is illuminated by intriguing and involving examples, allowing the reader to participate in rather than merely observe the research journey.

This remarkable book provides an outstanding guide to the complex art of interviewing. It dispels myths that interviews are an ‘easy’ or ‘natural’ process and takes readers on a step by step journey to vastly improving their skills. It is ideal for researchers and students alike.

This lively, engaging and comprehensive guide offers the research student exactly what they need to design an interview-based project. Combining practical advice with theoretical ideas, ethical debates and personal reflections, Morgan Brett and Wheeler take the reader on a rich, robust and rewarding journey.

Dr Bethany Morgan Brett is a lecturer in Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex, and a Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist. She holds a bachelor’s degree, two master’s degrees, and a PhD in Sociology from the University of Essex. She has 15 years lecturing experience in social psychology, psychoanalysis, and psychosocial studies. Her research has primarily focused on ageing and the life course development. Her key areas of specialism include coping with loss, grief, depression and anxiety, trauma, care, and end of life issues. She also worked for nine years in the UK Data Archive and specialises in research data management, digitising and archiving qualitative research collections, and qualitative research ethics. She has published a number of journal articles and is currently authoring a monograph for Policy Press on Adult Children and Ageing Parents. She has also recently co-authored textbook with Dr Katy Wheeler How to Do Qualitative Interviewing which is due to be published by SAGE later in 2021. Dr Katy Wheeler is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at The University of Essex. Her research interests are in the fields of sustainability and consumption, and she has published widely within leading academic journals and two authored monographs, Fair-Trade and the Citizen-Consumer: Shopping for Justice (Palgrave: 2012) and Recycling and Consumption Work: Social and moral economies (Palgrave: 2015). She has also co-authored the textbook ‘How to do Qualitative Interviewing’ (SAGE, 2022 – with Morgan Brett). She has taught social science methodology courses for many years (both qualitative and quantitative), from introductory undergraduate to advanced postgraduate.