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Interviews are a key element of many research projects but are rarely considered in depth by researchers this excellent book by Kathryn Roulston is a well written easy to read guide to everything a researcher needs to know about the theory and practice of employing interviews in their research. Everyone who intends to use interviews in their research will benefit from this book.

The book is aimed at researchers who are interviewing for the first time. The author has three aims: firstly to explain the theoretical choices available for interviews; secondly, to encourage reflexivity when interviewing and thirdly to analyse interviews using a methodological approach. The book achieves these aims in part: the majority of the book describes interviewing approaches, conventions and practice. Chapter 6 on “The Reflective Researcher” is excellent, although the only section that explicitly addresses reflexivity, although the book is title “Reflective Interviewing.”

An extremely helpful guide to conducting interviews for social researchers.

This is a very useful text, and nicely structured for easy reading.

use it to provide additional guidance to master students once their research proposal is accepted. this gives them deeper instruction on interviewing technique. is helpful with this student's research on project managers.

For many of my MA HRM/D students, they are engaged in reflective interviewing, often few realise it! This is a help book which guides students through theory and practice.

I could use this as a valued supplementary text and have listed it us in my qualitative research syllabus, but it could not serve as a primary text based on my reading of it.

Great text, neatly structured. The author charts the way from considering the options for gathering qualitative narratively based data right through to thinking about evaluation and quality appraisal issues. Particularly helpful resource for masters and doctoral level students.

This is a good more specialist book for students doing qualitative research. Would be particularly helpful for those at Masters level. It is clearly written and structured and provides helpful advice to students wanting to improve their approach to interviewing.

This is a very useful textbook for postgraduate courses and research students. There are now many good books on interviewing, but Kathryn Roulston's stands out in terms of its in-depth treatment of this method.

This is a great book, but due to costs of the other Sage texts that I adopted, will have to put this one aside.

Extremely useful, in depth guide to interviewing that several students will find useful as an additional reference book, alongside more generic research methods texts (especially at postgraduate level).

The book is valuable for those students undertaking extensive interviewing within their research.
It has helped to inform research proposals, supported procedures and promted refelection on the the production and language of the questiuoning used.

This is a useful book for those considering an interview based study. It encourages the researcher to explore the roles of reflection and reflexivity in interview based research.

another useful but very specific subject area. Useful for the post-graduates and those looking to use this technique as part of their dissertation/PhD

This will be part of my reading list for trainee teachers who are doing their research project.

An excellent text - I found discussion of theoretical perspective underpinning the different types of interviews very useful.

I also found discussion on analysing focus group interviews very useful.

will be asking both second and third year undergraduate social work students to buy this text.

A good thorough text of value to many researchers who use interview methods in their work - including those who do not necessarily consider their style to be 'reflective' as there are important lessons here for other interview approaches to learn from and, where possible, incorporate.

An carefully nuanced discussion of interviewing as a research practice. I was impressed by the way that Roulston introduced a series of issues that have been hotly debated by qualitative researchers. While not all our students use interviewing as a research method I am recommending it to those who do.