Individual and Group Interviews (Online)
| Code | School | Level | Credits | Semesters |
| NURS4075 | Nursing | 4 | 10 | Spring UK |
- Code
- NURS4075
- School
- Nursing
- Level
- 4
- Credits
- 10
- Semesters
- Spring UK
Summary
This block will involve practically-oriented sessions where to explore a variety of individual and group interview approaches. This will include focus groups as well as structured, semi-structured, and more open-ended styles of interviewing (including narrative approaches). It will also consider the use of stimulus material, vignettes, and critical incidents as possible ways of structuring interview interactions.
Sessions will include practical demonstrations of interviewing, and will involve the analysis of interview transcripts, along with published research papers, which use different analytical approaches. Among a range of issues that will be considered, it will discuss some of the ethical issues that can arise when this type of fieldwork is being conducted, and there will be plenty of opportunity for group members to draw upon their own research experiences within this and other discussions. This is a hands-on module.
Target Students
ESRC MA/PhD students in Sociology & Social Policy based pathways, as well as others students within the DTC. MA Research Method and PhD students from Health Sciences.
Classes
- One 8-hour lecture
Live Online Workshop
Assessment
- 100% Report: One 2,000 word report based on interview conducted and data collected by the students and transcribed and analysed by them using the approaches/techniques covered in the module.
Assessed by end of designated period
Educational Aims
The primary aim of this module is to give students practical, hand-on experience in using different qualitative approaches to the individual and group interviews, and think through some of the methodological and epistemological issues that it gives rise to (note that this practical experience will build on the theoretical underpinnings gained on the Foundations of Qualitative Research Module).Students will develop, through practical experience, a greater understanding of, and competence in, the design, conduct and analysis of qualitative interviews.Learning Outcomes
Evaluate and conduct different approaches to qualitative interviews;
Evaluate qualitative research design, methods and issues;
Evaluate and conduct qualitative research at all stages: question formation, selection and adaptation of methods, research planning and management, gaining access, gathering data in the field, recording, managing and analysing data; reporting and presenting research;
Analyse and carry out a micro-project which demonstrates the above skills.