Fdn016 week 9 interview design & test #2

1. FDN016 Week 9
Interviewing design and practice

2. Whole group self organising
• You have one hour
• I will be in character for the whole time, playing myself as an 18 year old
student you will interview about student food poverty.
• You have to include everyone in the whole class, and organise yourselves
• You will choose two people to interview me,
• design and test on each other 3 questions for a semi structured interview,
and then
• interview me for up to five minutes, with an audio-recording, using those
questions

3. Learning points
• Care for your interviewee is the MOST important
• Contract into the interview: introduce yourself, the purpose, confidentiality,
terms of the interview, confirm readiness to proceed, safety (not comfort)
• Contract out of interview: reconfirm confidentiality, terms of interview, safety
• Start with a general biographical question: tell me a story about a
food event in your past….
• Follow up questions based on that story
• Have three semi-structured questions ready
• Record, transcribe, secure, share wisely

4. In the second hour
• We will discuss what questions we as a class think worked well, and
which didn’t.
• We will then propose three questions that the whole module will use
as common questions across the whole investigation

5. Possible questions
• Opening biographical question….tell me about your food day
• If you were to struggle with FP, who would you turn to for help?
• How do you think FP affects your physical & mental health?
• How would you go about prioritising your spending
• How do you think eating affects your sleeping/studying/exercise?
• How has your eating/lifestyle changed since coming to university?
• Under what circumstances do you choose to buy take-out meals?
• How do you decide whether food in your cupboard or fridge is fresh
enough to eat?
• Which meal are you likely skip and why?

6. In tutorial
• Choose two interview partners
• Practice contracting in and out
• Practice listening, note taking and checking accuracy of listening
• Practice follow on questions
• Decide and record in Journal plan to collect interview, when, where,
who and with whom.
• Write up design & test process in Journal

8. Practicing interviewing is like this…..