At Transcription Centre we specialise in transcription of interviews, focus groups and speeches for academics and market researchers primarily in the UK.
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A blog post based on a great Twitter conversation full of advice for preparing for and performing qualitative interviews. There are a lot of nuggets of wisdom in there.
The advice we’ve picked out is heavily slanted towards transcription, because we’re a transcription company.
Here’s another infographic containing some very serious tips (and some not so serious pictures) on making a good recording, and a good impression on your interviewee.
This is a question that I think all qualitative researchers struggle with - how many interviews do you need to produce adequate, meaningful evidence? As a transcription company, we've dealt with projects with five interviews, and others with hundreds. There are certainly a lot of questions to consider, and Sarah Baker and Rosalind Edwards' very useful working paper aims to address these. Rosalind was interviewed for an NCRM podcast about this paper, which we've transcribed below for you.
This video provides a really useful overview of how to conduct qualitative analysis, by manually coding transcripts. Personally, I prefer to code transcripts in NVivo, but these instructions are a great starting point to getting to grips with doing this manually. I've transcribed the video and included the text below, so you have the option of either watching or reading.
I've just read an interesting blog post - "Recording focus groups: An interview with Will Wright" discussing various technologies that he uses to record focus groups, which I found really interesting. It made me think about the way I’ve conducted and dealt with transcribing focus groups in the past.
