Doing Interviews

by Svend Brinkmann, Steinar Kvale

This is a concise introduction to the richness and scope of interviewing in social science research, teaching the craft of interview research with practical, hands-on guidance. Incorporating discussion of the wide variety of methods in interview-based research and the different approaches to reading the data, this book will help you to navigate the broad field of qualitative research with confidence and get out there and start collecting your data.

208 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 3, 2018

About the author

Svend Brinkmann (født 23. december 1975) har været professor i almenpsykologi og kvalitative metoder på Det Humanistiske Fakultet på Aalborg Universitet siden 2009. Han er uddannet cand.psych. fra Aarhus Universitet.

Svend Brinkmann har skrevet og redigeret en lang række bøger og mere end 150 artikler. Derudover har han udgivet artikler og bogkapitler på syv forskellige sprog. I almenheden blev han i 2014 kendt for bogen Stå fast, hvori han gør op med, hvad han beskriver som tidens (selv)udviklingstyranni. Svend Brinkmann har også medvirket i radioprogrammet Netværket på P1 fra 2009-2016 og var i 2014 vært på DRK programmet Lev Stærkt.

Svend Brinkmann har gennem sin karriere modtaget mange priser og legater. Blandt andet modtog han i 2015 DR's formidlingspris Rosenkjærprisen og Gyldendals formidlingspris sammen med Lene Tanggaard.

Reviews

[Krzysztof Uchman · Rating 2 out of 5]

The book offers a cursory overview of the interview process. When seeking such a resource, professional researchers and students are typically looking for a practical manual or a comprehensive toolkit. Instead, "Doing Interviews" provides a surface-level summary, frequently deferring to other titles in the Sage series. At the same time, the segments regarding digital support for interviewing conspicuously avoid mentioning specific software, rendering the advice rather abstract.

Due to the lack of specificity and the lack of references to modern tools, it's unclear to me who is the intended audience. The book clearly wasn't meant to be a recreational read but nor is it a sufficient guide for anyone embarking on interview-based research.

[Simon Fletcher · Rating 3 out of 5]

A practical guide to doing interviews in qualitative research. Like all of the Sage Quallitative Research Kit series this is well written and easy to understand.