Assignment: Small-Scale Qualitative Research Project—Conducting the Interviews
This week you will complete your interviews and transcription for your small-scale qualitative research project.
To prepare for this Assignment, you will take into consideration feedback from your Instructor on the Interview Guide submitted in Week 2 when conducting your interviews. Each interview should last 15–20 minutes and must be audio-recorded, because this is the standard for good practice in qualitative research interviews. Be sure to consider the different options for recording the audio of your interviews, including programs like Audacity, Sony Acid Xpress, and others. Don’t forget to save each interview audio recording as an MP3 file in case your Instructor asks to review it. Once you have completed your interviews and captured them as audio files, you will need to transcribe the interviews.
By Day 7
Submit your completed interview transcriptions.
• If either of your interviews lasts longer than 20 minutes, transcribe only a maximum of 20 minutes for each interview.

equired Readings
Saunders, M. N. K., Lewis, P., & Thornhill, A. (2015). Research methods for business students (7th ed.). Essex, England: Pearson Education Unlimited.

Chapter 10, Section 10.6, “Conducting Semi-Structured or In-Depth Interviews“ (pp. 404–414)
Chenail, R. (2011). Interviewing the investigator: Strategies for addressing instrumentation and researcher bias concerns in qualitative research. The Qualitative Report, 16(1), 255–262. Retrieved from http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/QR16-1/interviewing

Elmir, R., Schmied, V., Jackson, D., & Wilkes, L. (2011). Interviewing people about potentially sensitive topics. Nurse Researcher, 19(1), 12–16. Retrieved from http://nurseresearcher.rcnpublishing.co.uk