Confidence and the effectiveness of creative methods in qualitative interviews with adults

“Let Children Play!”: Connecting Evolutionary Psychology and Creativity with Peter Gray

“…In other words, the idea of evaluation needs to be removed from students' experience, thus keeping them safe from fears of judgment, and leaving them free to play and pursue their personal curiosities and intrests. The research on this is clear: an awareness of being judged has been found to limit creativity (McVeigh, 2014;Rainford, 2020). This occurs, as Dr. Gray argues, because passing judgement on creativity means that "instead of allowing your mind to flow free, you are now focusing on something particular and on how somebody might evaluate it."…”

“…“What I think is really important—if you expect creativity—is not to evaluate it,” he emphasized, “And if you are going to evaluate it, evaluate it secretly with no feedback.” In other words, the idea of evaluation needs to be removed from students’ experience, thus keeping them safe from fears of judgment, and leaving them free to play and pursue their personal curiosities and intrests. The research on this is clear: an awareness of being judged has been found to limit creativity (McVeigh, 2014 ; Rainford, 2020 ). This occurs, as Dr. Gray argues, because passing judgement on creativity means that “instead of allowing your mind to flow free, you are now focusing on something particular and on how somebody might evaluate it.” Cautioning against judgement-based evaluations, Dr. Gray suggested that assigning a mark of evaluation to creativity—such as points, “gold stars,” or an “F”—causes a child’s focus to shift from personally-driven creative play to the pursuit of a better evaluation from the evaluator.…”

Remote Interviews and Visual Timelines with Patients: Lessons Learned

“…Privacy and the interview context may be more important in generating high-quality data than the chosen technique [3]. Creative methods such as drawing tasks can be used in connection with interviews to support the participants in reflecting on the issue more broadly and in new ways [5]. Even though the benefits outweigh the barriers, the researcher needs to consider the participants' possible fears, especially regarding tasks that require skills [5].…”

“…Creative methods such as drawing tasks can be used in connection with interviews to support the participants in reflecting on the issue more broadly and in new ways [5]. Even though the benefits outweigh the barriers, the researcher needs to consider the participants' possible fears, especially regarding tasks that require skills [5]. In face-toface interviews, the co-creation of customer journey maps and visual timelines can be done during the interview to support the discussion between the participant and the researcher [6].…”

Producing ‘good enough’ automated transcripts securely: Extending Bokhove and Downey (2018) to address security concerns

“…I am interviewing others who perform my role, as well as senior leaders within those organisations, using semi-structured interviews to inquire into any differences in perception and expectations as well as motivations and contexts. As semi-structured interviewing has become established as a core, and arguably the default, qualitative data-gathering method across the social sciences, for example, Coronel et al (2011) and Rainford (2020), and related disciplines, including business, for example, Maznevski and Chudoba (2000) and Peterson (2004), and cyber-security, for example, Ashenden and Sasse (2013), Singh et al (2013) and Van der Kleij et al (2017), researchers, like myself, that gather data using this method are faced with the task of preparing that data for analysis. For novice researchers, in particular, the predominant guidance from the literature, for example, Hammersley and Atkinson (1995) and Bryman (2012: 482) is for manual, verbatim (Seale, 2000: 148) transcriptions of audio-recorded interviews to be prepared in 'orthographic' (Braun and Clarke, 2006: 88) form for subsequent analysis, despite the acknowledged limitations of transcripts themselves (DeVault, 1990;Green et al, 1997;Lapadat and Lindsay, 1999;ten Have, 1990).…”