While thick descriptions are used to capture what people are doing, interviews are concerned with what people are saying. As Scheele and Groeben describe it, every interviewee has a subjective theory, meaning a “complex stock of knowledge about the topic under study” (Flick 2009, p.156). This knowledge is made accessible in the form of answers given to interview questions (Flick 2009, p.160).

Out of the many models which exist to structure an interview, it was the approach of a semi-standardised interview which seemed to fit this particular research best. For more information about this model, please click here.

To learn about how I used interviews in this specific research, please click here.