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This book encourages reflective thinking about the use of research interviews. It opens up the process of planning for, managing, analysing and representing interviews. Reflexive vignettes foreground the voices and experiences of a wide variety of qualitative interviewers in a data-led consideration of key research interview decisions and choices.

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Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Interviews as Reflective Practice
2. Qualitative Interviews Overview
3. Interview Context
4. Research Interviews; modes and types
5. Managing Interview Interaction
6. Dilemmas and Parameters
7. Beyond the individual
8. Transcripts and Analysis
9. Representation
10. Training and Development
Appendices
References
Index

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"Throughout the book, the reader is given though-provoking tasks. ... Reading The Research Interview felt more like completing a course, than reading a textbook. ... It certainly has a role in doctoral and postgraduate research training for qualitative researchers, either for self-directed learning or as a resource for trainers. So too might it be a useful purchase for a qualitative research group, helping researchers keep their interviewing skills sharp." (Catherine Aicken, Qualitative Methods in Psychology, (23), 2018)

"It should be introduced into any course on qualitative research as a key stimulus text for discussing these concepts, or given to any research student writing on these topics in their methodology. ... Mann has managed to pack an enormous wealth of interviewing knowledge and experience into a handy, well-written volume which is both a pleasure to read and an education in itself." (Victoria Elliott, International Journal of Research & Method in Education, Vol. 41 (2), January, 2018)

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Steve Mann is Associate Professor at the Centre for Applied Linguistics, University of Warwick, UK. He previously lectured at both Aston University and University of Birmingham. Steve supervises a research group of PhD students who are investigating teacher education and development. He contributes sessions on research interviewing for the Doctorate Training Centre at the University of Warwick.

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