What is Creative Interviewing

By J. Mason. 2010

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CHE Principles: facilitating authentic and dialogical semi-structured interviews in educational research (2017, background): “…the crucial rapport-building component of the relational dimension of successful semi-structured interviews, classic works on rapport-building have been described by the likes of Palmer (1928) and Douglas (1985), and others have addressed the identified stages of rapport-building (Silverman 2013).”
Qualitative Interviewing as an Embodied Emotional Performance (2010, background): “For example, Douglas (1985) described creative interviewing as involving “the use of many strategies and tactics of interaction, largely based on an understanding of friendly feelings and intimacy, to optimize cooperative, mutual disclosure and a creative search for mutual understanding” (p. 25).”
Questions, questioning, and institutional practices: an introduction (2009, background): “Writers such as Briggs (1986), Douglas (1985) and Holstein and Gubrium (1995) re-conceptualized interviewing as an interaction in which the interview is a creative enterprise jointly constructed by interviewers and interviewees, neither of which passively enact their assumed roles.”