Qualitative
Social
Research

I believe that social researchers must cultivate genuine interest in people’s lives and everyday struggles in order to develop concepts that adequately explain social life.

While participation and observation allow entry into actors’ life-worlds and generate information that may helpfully complicate their convictions, in-depth interviewing most effectively enables researchers to study meaning-making.

Besides relying on interviews and related methodological tools in my own research, I develop hands-on interview trainings for researchers, artists and journalists.

I use video recordings of mock interviews, peer-to-peer feedback, and body awareness techniques to heighten interviewers' capacity to choose relevant questions, build rapport with interviewees and assess their behavior.