`This is an excellent book. It will be required reading on my methods courses? - Nigel Fielding, University of SurreyStudents at postgraduate, and increasingly at undergraduate, level are required to undertake research projects and interviewing is the most frequently used research method. This book provides a comprehensive and authoritative introduction to interviewing. It covers all the issues that arise in interview work: theories of interviewing; design; application; and interpretation. Richly illustrated with relevant examples, each chapter includes handy statements of `advantages? and `disadvantages? of the approaches discussed.