Interviewing in Practice: Capturing Conversations

This blog post will focus on interview techniques for Communication for Development, specifically on how two interviews were conducted, and offering a personal reflection on the experience. The theme of the interviews centered on Youth Participation in Community Development, with one interview conducted online and the other in person.     For …

The Practice of Active Interview: A Reflection on Online and In-Person Interviews

According to Holdtein and Gubrium (2011), interviews are not simply a method of extracting knowledge, but rather an interactive event where both interviewer and respondent engage in meaning-making. This perspective aligns well with the purpose of this essay, which is to reflect on the experiences of meaning-making and knowledge constructing …

Lessons Learned: A Personal Research Experience

The following article is a personal reflection on two interviews conducted for a research assignment, stemming from the previous post about the gender gap in humanitarian leadership roles. I explain how first contact was made, what the rapport was during the interviews, the differences between the two, and what learning …