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These pages provide helpful links (see below) to those interested in qualitative interviews. (Updated on 11 January 2026).

If you would like me to link to your web-site or resources that you have found useful regarding interviews, please email me steve.mann@warwick.ac.uk

NEWS

• This new book by Sal Consoli and Sara Ganassin has a number of excellent contributions on reflexivity in interviews:

Consoli, S., & Ganassin, S. (Eds.). (2023). Reflexivity in applied linguistics: Opportunities, challenges, and suggestions.

• Interesting article on 'nexus analysis' by

and (‘Interview as Social Practice: How Can Nexus Analysis Enhance Reflexivity?’)

Recent helpful review by Stefanie Reissner and Andrea Whittle to be published in Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management:

• Reissner, S., & Whittle, A. (2022). Interview-based research in management and organisation studies: Making sense of the plurality of methodological practices and presentational styles. Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: An International Journal, 17(1), 61-83.

New article in Language and Society.

Schrauf, R. W., De Victoria, P. L., & Diaz, B. (2020). Linguistic stance: An integrative paradigm for mixed methods social science. Language in Society, 49(2), 257-281.

This article is a useful contribution on ‘stancetaking’. It examines f ‘everyday’ social stance—(e.g. evaluation, positioning, and alignment). They demonstrate how participants link their stancetaking to wider sociocultural frames via the discursive devices of indexicality, accounting practices, and appeal to norms.

Interesting article arguing that it may not always be a good idea to record interviews:

Useful new insight into reflexivity in a TESOL Quarterly article:

Rabbidge, M. (2017). Embracing Reflexivity: The Importance of Not Hiding the Mess. TESOL Quarterly (invited research series).

BOOK

My book The Research Interview: Reflective Practice and Reflexivity in Research Processes is available and on .

The book develops the arguments made in a paper that was published in a special issue of Applied Linguistics (A Critical Review of Qualitative Interviews in Applied Linguistics). It has ten chapters, ranging over issues concerned with interview context, types, analysis and representation. One of the distinguishing features of the book is that it features a great number of 'reflexive vignettes', generously provided by both established and more novice researchers. These vignettes include details of context, a transcribed extract and a reflexive commentary. They offer unique insights into interviewing in action.

This comprehensive list of interview references is a good starting point if you are collecting information about qualitative interviews.

OTHER NEWS

There was a published in 2016 . The issue features work by linguistic ethnographers that critically engage with contemporary sociological discussions on reflexivity and late modernity. It is titled .

INTERVIEW RESOURCES

Qualitative Interviews: recommended reading (here is list of journals that regularly feature methodological comment on qualitative interviews)

Gubrium et al (Eds.). (2012). The SAGE handbook of interview research: The complexity of the craft (Details and full list of references)

Roulston, K. (2010). Reflective Interviewing: A Guide to Theory and Practice. London: Sage.

Richards, K. (2003) Qualitative Inquiry in TESOL. London: Palgrave. (Chapter 2)

Edwards E. and Holland J. (2013) What is Qualitative Interviewing? London: Bloomsbury.

Journal Special Issues

Applied Linguistics (2011) Eds. Richards and Talmy Issue 32 (vol1)

Language and Society (2011) Eds. De Fino and Perrino (Issue 40)

Useful links

(Video resource - filmed at University of ÌÇÐÄTV)

Filming an interview (), , ,

(provides introductions and example transcripts for a range of different qualitative interviews - including unstructured interviews, feminist interviews, pychosocial interviews and life story interviews).

(basic but useful guide from Harvard)

(Rosalind Edwards and Janet Holland)

(some great material for inital training in noticing features of interview interaction - contrasting with the research interview).

is good site for seeing examples of practice interviews - you can also comment on the videos once you have registered. it is run by EdLab at Columbia University.

It is interesting to look closely at some political interviews and think about the strategies that politicians use to avoid answering the question. This video clip features Matt Forde talking about Ed Milliband and Boris Johnson Also have a look at (the most interesting bit is from 2 mins 30 secs) - also this

uses 'walk alongside' interviews to build up a picture of lives in 21C Britain.

t has video extracts and transcripts from interviews with Rosa Parks and Maya Angelou

- A British Library site covers a wide range of subject areas. The interviews made available here are only a small selection from the many thousands held in the British Library. -

(Katja Mruck & Franz Breuer, 2003)

(Rachel Shaw, 2010)

(wide-ranging and some interesting insights). In particular read the . There is also a talking abour recording focus groups

( a wide range of interviews with ordinary people about their health and health care)

(an excellent resource if you want to consider aspects of transcribing your interviews)

: Useful list of references

Useful article on reflexivity in a research project (Atsuko Watanabe)

(ESRC Project Irvine)

(Barbara DiCicco-Bloom and Benjamin F Crabtree)

(basic but worth reading)

(Meg Sewell)

(Kathy Roulston 2011)

(Susie Weller 2015) and an article that discusses the effectiveness of using video internet technologies, like Skype, for qualitative interviews (

Useful article on aspects of Skype interviewing ( Paul Symmons and Valeria Lo Iacono)

(Useful website with useful articles about qualitative interviews and training with an advanced search engine).

(needs registration)

- Qualitative Researcher provides an interdisciplinary forum for social scientists to share their research and discuss questions arising from their qualitative research

Narrative approaches (Gary Barkhuizen). He has other articles which exploring narrative knowledging.

(Great Interviews of the 20th Century)

(good warm up discussion task)

(Graham Gibbs) - contrasts two interviews

s - youtube video.

(a useful account from Ping-Chun Hsiung on using data to raise awareness of reflexive issues)

) has some useful insights into interview use within linguistic ethnography

(basic but helpful guide )

- useful site at University of Surrey

: a comparison of semi-structured face-to-face and telephone interviews using conversation analysis

Working with QDA packages - There are some good on-line ‘how-to’ videos. A quick search on Youtube will reveal a number of tutorials but I would particular recommend the and those produced by QSR International. Both demonstrate handling transcription within QDA packages: • University of Essex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaqYC4UGKq8 • :

Corpus of informal conversations rom the late 1930s (Ivor Timmis). Ivor has recently developed an open access historical spoken corpus with data from the late 1930s. TThe data includes informal conversations among working class people in public places such as pubs, sports grounds, streets and shops.

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Useful intro video to Applied Linguistics (EU)

(LearnHigher)

Although co-operative development is not interviewing - it is interesting to experience the role of being an "Understander" a particularly concentrated form of active listening. For links see . Also P.