Principal speaker
Dr Judy Rose
Other speakers
Ausma Bernot
This workshop helps develop a set of practical skills, most relevant to conducting semi-structured interviews, as part of a mixed methods study. It is also applicable to other kinds of interviews. We begin by reviewing how interviewing, as a method, can be designed to gain rich detail in experiences, opinions, knowledge or behaviour. We then demonstrate skills via three vignettes. 1. Establish rapport and trust (via verbal cues and body language) with a participant at the beginning of an interview. 2. Encourage rich and relevant responses via prompting techniques, active listening, and a mindful and engaged presence. 3. Manage instances of interactive trouble that may occur at the outset of an interview (e.g. trying to establish common ground) and as the interview progresses (e.g. confronting outbursts/disclosures or detecting inauthentic information). Finally, we prepare you to apply these interviewing skills to your own semi-structured interview and provide an indication of how this prepares for analysis of interviews via a mixed methods approach.
Intended audience: While this workshop caters to all levels of experience, we will assume that you have established your research question, conceptual framework and have a strategy in place for recruitment of interviewees.
Pre-requisite: We recommend that participants attend "Formulating Open-ended Interview Questions as part of Mixed Methods' workshop beforehand.
Connection to other RED training: This workshop provides important skills for Interviewing to Quantify Expert Knowledge with Uncertainty as well as workshops on Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis. It builds on the theme of Foundations of Mixed Methods.
Recommended Reading: Jacob, S. A., & Furgerson, S. P. (2012). Writing interview protocols and conducting interviews: tips for students new to the field of qualitative research. Qualitative Report, 17, 6, 1-10. Please read pp. 7-10.
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RSVP on or before Thursday 23 March 2023 09.04 am, by email red@griffith.edu.au , or via https://events.griffith.edu.au/d/3lqbdl/