Qualitative Research Interviewing: Biographic Narrative and Semi-Structured Methods

By Tom Wengraf. 2001

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• ‘The invisible enemy’: disability, loneliness and isolation (2018, methodology): “All volunteers were trained in research methods designed to equip volunteers with the relevant ethical/theoretical, qualitative and quantitative skills (Wengraf 2001; De Vaus 2014; Hesse-Biber and Johnson 2015) in order to conduct a relatively large-scale study within the city.”
• ‘Portfolio Careers’ and the Search for Flexibility in Later Life (2004, background): “Interviews were seen as the most promising way to gain access to complex and fragmented narratives about a shifting employment state (Kvale, 1996; Wengraf, 2001).”
• ‘Am I rambling?’ on the advantages of interviewing couples together (2014, background): “Since the link between a story told and a life lived (Wengraf, 2001) can no longer be taken for granted, some researchers have felt the need to defend some links with reality against the tendency to treat interview data merely as stories.”
• Serial Interviews (2018, background): “In this and other narrative research, multiple interviews may be necessary to explore details of the stories that are the very essence of what the investigator seeks (Earthy & Cronin, 2008; Riessman, 2012; Shenhav, 2005; Wengraf, 2001).”
• Impact of Customer Relationship Management on Customer Satisfaction: The Case of a Budget Hotel Chain (2017, methodology): “For instance, Xu and Walton (2005) in their study mentioned the following major benefits of implementing CRM: improving customer satisfaction, retaining existing customers, providing strategic information, and improving customer lifetime value. Gummesson (1994) observed that CRM could build and sust”
• Is verbatim transcription of interview data always necessary? (2006, background): “The use of written field notes taken either during an interview or immediately afterward has been reported as being superior to the exclusive use of audiorecordings that are subsequently verbatim transcribed (Fasick, 2001; Wengraf, 2001).”
• When academics integrate research skill development in the curriculum (2012, background): “The research questions required elements in common to be addressed in all interviews, yet for there to be sufficient openness for different experiences and understandings to emerge, so a semi-structured interview protocol was utilized (Wengraf, 2001).”
• Editorial: Positioning in narrative interaction (2013, background): “Although opportunities for interactional trajectories and co construction are much more restricted in the autobiographical research interview (cf. Wengraf, 2001), Wortham (2000, 2001) and Lucius-Hoene & Deppermann (2000,2004a, b) have shown that also in this setting, narratives need to be…”
• Systematic methodological review: developing a framework for a qualitative semi-structured interview guide. (2016, methodology): “The use of semi-structured interviews requires a certain level of previous study in the research topic area (Wengraf 2001, RWJF 2008, Kelly 2010) because the interview questions are based on previous knowledge.”
• Hopes, fears and expectations about the future: what do older people's stories tell us about active ageing? (2007, background): “’ (Wengraf 2001).5 Altogether, 55 interviews with an average duration of 90 minutes were conducted.”