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. LO9 a Conduct both interviews and, if possible, make an audio-recording. If this is not possible the interviewer should take notes.

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

c If you were not able to audio-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?