Qualitative interviews: Practices and challenges, 7,5 credits

Course objectives

The course gives a deeper understanding of qualitative interviews in terms of their planning and practical implementation, as well as challenges of ethical implications and the ways of scientific writing based on interview material. Special attention is paid to the issues of power relations and the positioning of the researcher, rather than viewing the interview as an unproblematic representation of the responding subjects’ private and personal thoughts and memories. The emphasis is put on planning for and reflecting on interviewing in the frames of the students’ research projects.