What challenges might you encounter when conducting interviews? What strategies could you develop to address these challenges? by Dr Astrid Wood

astrid_wood — 2025-10-05 15:53:27 UTC

access to participants = build a strong community of relationships

astrid_wood — 2025-10-05 15:53:30 UTC

time constraints = develop focus well-structured questions

astrid_wood — 2025-10-05 18:49:41 UTC

finding people to interview = talk to a gatekeeper

2025-10-06 14:45:52 UTC

When one to one go to a comfortable environment

Ethical concerns

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Ethical concerns and biases

managing sensitive topics

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astrid_wood — 2025-10-06 14:47:02 UTC

mixing methods - so interviews and focus groups seem like they might balance each other in data gathering

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Ethics- give participants a consent form and ensure full informed consent

Weather

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astrid_wood — 2025-10-06 14:47:32 UTC

using semi-structured interviews can help ensure that I am getting the best answers with the most flexibility

Sex of researcher

2025-10-06 14:47:39 UTC

Male participants may feel more confortable discussing things with a man and female participants may feel more comfortable discussing a woman

Time constraints- use a focus group, so can get more data in shorter time

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Leading questions

Access to participants

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ask interviewee to recommend other participants who likely will get involved

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finding people to interview and enough of them

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Safeguarding issues

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Hawthorne effect- answers may be dishonest due to stress, sensitivity or behaviour is changed when being observed and listened to. This affects reliability of data collected making it harder to generalise meaning less validity

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Which questions to ask certain people

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Transcription accurate and fast

Ethical concerns

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Ensure that participants are informed on how their responses are collected and presented in the final report, could be as many as 6 or 7 different ways of presenting the findings

2025-10-06 14:49:29 UTC

Consider your reach

2025-10-06 14:49:31 UTC

Depends on what your are trying to conduct data for

2025-10-06 14:49:39 UTC

Make yourself welcoming not pushy so people feel like they want to be interviewed

2025-10-06 14:49:41 UTC

Ethical concerns and sensitive topics

Making the participant comfortable

2025-10-06 14:49:54 UTC

I would host the interview in a less formal environment eg. Coffee shop

Getting people actually talking

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Just be sound and try and engage with the participant, have an exciting conversation to get them talking

Internal bias

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Lag when doing an online interview

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Informed consent