With a friend, each decide on a topic about which you think it would be interesting to interview the other person. Separately develop your interview themes and prepare an interview guide for a semi-structured interview. At the same time, decide which one of the

‘difficult’ participants in Table 10.2 you would like to role-play when being interviewed.

a Conduct both interviews and, if possible, make a video-recording. If this is not possible either audio-record or ensure the interviewer takes notes.

b Watch each of the video-recordings – what aspects of your interviewing technique do you each need to improve?

c If you were not able to video-record the interview, how good a record of each interview do you consider the notes to be? How could you improve your interviewing technique further?