Framing the telephone interview as a participant-centred tool for qualitative research: a methodological discussion
By Adrienne Trier-Bieniek. 2012
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This paper discusses telephone interviewing as a qualitative research method and defines qualitative telephone interviews as participant-centered. In a research project which consisted of internet based recruitment, emails sent to set up interviews and an analysis of 39 qualitative interviews conducted over telephone, I contend that being interviewed over the phone may result in more honest data as people have become more accustomed to ‘virtual’ communication, serving to benefit to both the participant and researcher. By merging feminist research methodology with traditional forms of semi-structured interviewing, data collected over the phone can be used when dealing with traumatic or sensitive topics and can result in rich data. Thus, this paper contributes to an ever-evolving conversation regarding the utility of telephone interviewing.
Subfields: Education, Sociology and Political Science
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Citations in the corpus
- What is Qualitative in Qualitative Research (2019, background): “A third consequence is providing an opening for critiques by scholars operating within different traditions (Valsiner 2000:101).”
- Telephonic qualitative research interviews: when to consider them and how to do them (2017, methodology): “Researchers should assess the target interviewee’s experience and confidence with the telephone (or computer-based technologies) for conversations of a long duration (Holt, 2010; Trier-Bieniek, 2012).”