The basic qualitative interviewing kit, part 1

I’m on the road this week, for the first time in a while.  Just packing up and sorting through my supplies.  My current interview kit is so tiny that I’ve had to invest in a bright stripy pouch from Paperchase in order to stand any change of finding it in the bottom of my bag.  [...]

What I did while away, in 7 points

One of the curses of doing work that is usually confidential is that – for me at least – it becomes somewhat difficult to blog about it.   Mix up ‘confidential’ with ‘busy’ and you have a bit of an issue, that I don’t think I’ve really solved yet.   The conventional wisdom is that you write about [...]

Where did all the quallies go?

In getting ready to launch this  journal site I’ve been surfing around to find similar sites.  Although I have found some neat blogs created by web expert types, I’ve found very little on qualitative research.  I was hoping to find the equivalent of one of those anonymous-policemen type blogs which expose the raw underbelly of the job [...]