Writing 117-01 (Winek, Spring 2024)

Provides an overview of different types of interviews, commenting on the orientation and make-up of each type. Offers advice in opening out and engaging with these aspects of the research interview.

Emphasizes the dynamic, interactional and reflexive dimensions of the research interview. Contributors highlight the myriad dimensions of complexity that are emerging as researchers increasingly frame the interview as a communicative opportunity as much as a data-gathering format.

The Handbook offers a comprehensive examination of the interview from interview theory to the nuts-and-bolts of the interview process.

This text contains a collection of essays and bibliographies providing both novice and experienced scholars with invaluable and accessible insights.

Chapters cover such topics as creating an interdisciplinary research team, hiring and training research staff and interviewers, developing the instrument, preparing the data for analysis, navigating the IRB and ethical dilemmas, maintaining cultural sensitivity, measuring the impact of the methodology, evaluating the intervention, transferring the results to practice and policy, and disseminating results and sharing data and publications.

A practical guide to planning and executing fieldwork and presenting the results. Introduces the skills new researchers will need in the field, including anthropology, travel logistics planning, body language recognition, interview preparation, storytelling, network development, and situational awareness. Danelo also discusses ethical considerations and how to recognize personal biases.

This volume brings together eminent, international scholars across the social and behavioral sciences and education to address those ethical issues that arise in the theory and practice of research within the technologically advancing and culturally complex world in which we live.

Identifies areas of "common ground," core ethics principles and areas of particular concern in research ethics across the social sciences. This volume draws on proceedings and papers delivered at a Symposia series.

This book provides a short, succinct and accessible overview of the field, highlighting the key issues and everyday ethical dilemmas that researchers are likely to face in different contexts.

This reader-friendly book examines the ethical issues and questions that occur in university and professional research and will help both beginning and experienced researchers to identify ethical issues when they are conducting research.