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You've Got Mail … ! Using Email Interviews to Gather Academics' Narratives of Their Working Lives
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James, Nalita – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2017
The paper explores how computer-mediated communication offers space for academics to think and make sense of their experiences in the qualitative research encounter. It draws on a research study that used email interviewing to generate online narratives to understand academic lives and identities through research encounters in virtual space. The…
Descriptors: Electronic Mail, Interviews, Data Collection, College Faculty
Using Email Interviews in Qualitative Educational Research: Creating Space to Think and Time to Talk
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James, Nalita – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2016
The article explores how the Internet and email offer space for participants to think and make sense of their experiences in the qualitative research encounter. It draws on a research study that used email interviewing to generate online narratives to understand academic lives and identities through research encounters in virtual space. The…
Descriptors: Electronic Mail, Interviews, Qualitative Research, Educational Research
The Use of Email Interviewing as a Qualitative Method of Inquiry in Educational Research
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James, Nalita – British Educational Research Journal, 2007
This article argues for the potential that email interviewing has as a qualitative method in educational research. The article draws on research that uses email as a way of generating online narratives in order to understand how academics construct their identities. In doing so, the article considers the challenges that email interviewing poses…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Research Methodology, Electronic Mail, Interviews