This book addresses different ways of designing and conducting qualitative interview studies and discusses how to analyze and write up the methodological procedures and research findings. This book will help its readers conduct, write, represent, understand, and critique qualitative interview research in its many forms as currently practiced.

Svend Brinkmann is Professor of Psychology at the University of Aalborg, Denmark. He has studied philosophy and psychology at the Universities of Aarhus and Oxford, and he has published widely within these fields. He is particularly interested in qualitative research and philosophy of science. In 2012 he won the prestigious Sapere Aude elite researcher grant from the Danish Research Council.

• Preface


• Acknowledgments


• Ch. 1 Introduction to Qualitative Interviewing


• Ch. 2 Research Design in Interview Studies


• Ch. 3 Conducting and Analyzing Qualitative Interviews


• Ch. 4 Writing Up the Methods Section


• Ch. 5 Writing Up the Research Findings


• Ch. 6 Discussion of Qualitative Interviewing


• References and Resources


• Index