Unstructured Interviews

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Unstructered Interviews

Advantages

  • Check understnading and view of research
  • Greater interviewee control
  • Respondents will trust interviewer
  • Vershten
  • Flexability
  • Interpretivists
  • Qualitative Responses
  • Sensitive topics
  • Anonymity and Confidentiality
  • Few ethical issues as the interviewee is protected from harm and has informed consent

Disadvantages

  • Lacking in objectivity because researcher builds a relationship
  • Resaercher has to be trained
  • Long time to carry out
  • Interviewer bias may influence respondent
  • Ability to generalise
  • Only use small samples making it difficult to repeat
  • Ethical issues such as
  • Deception could be an issue

Evaluation

Unstructured interviews give the respondent greater control as they can answer questions in a way in which they want. It is a good way to talk about sensitive topics as the interviewer will build a relationship in which they can trust. However this means that they can sometimes lack in objectivity and there can be interviewer bias. Deception can also be an issue.

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