Elicitation and the Interview 

5th Feb 2020 2:00pm-4:30pm 

Book in: email techne@rhul.ac.uk

This is a short course on the interview in research as a stand alone technique, part of a mixed methods approach, or experimental advanced elicitation practice. It will focus on introducing the interview in research: what it is and what takes place experientially and existentially; pros, cons and difficulties in interview practice; and issues around gender, transcription and integrating extracts into writing. It will then take the interview model and add more experimental advanced elicitation techniques to work with research respondents - the use of digital glasses in particular. No prior interview or social science experience is needed, though we do live in an "interview society" as you will discover...

This workshop will be taught by Jonathan Skinner (University of Roehampton).

Suggested readings:

Skinner, J. (2012) ‘A Four Part Introduction to the Interview: Introducing the Interview; Society, Sociology and the Interview; Anthropology and the Interview; Anthropology and the Interview – Edited’ in, J. Skinner (Ed.), The Interview: An Ethnographic Approach, Oxford: Berg Publications, pp.1-49.

Gore, G., G. Rix-Lièvre, O. Wathelet and A. Cazemajou (2012) ‘Eliciting the Tacit: Interviewing to Understand Bodily Experience’ in, J. Skinner (Ed.), The Interview: An Ethnographic Approach, Oxford: Berg Publications, pp.127-142.