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  • 9 - Interviews

  • from Part III - Collecting and Analysing Data
  • Edited by Hannah Hughes, Aberystwyth University, Alice B. M. Vadrot, Universität Wien, Austria
  • Book:
    Conducting Research on Global Environmental Agreement-Making
    Published online:
    07 August 2023
    Print publication:
    10 August 2023, pp 168-185

  • Summary

    Interviewing is widely used as a method for obtaining data in research on global environmental negotiations. Interviewing in this context, however, is beset with perils and pitfalls that can befall the unsuspecting researcher new to the setting. This chapter discusses how interviews can support the study of environmental agreement-making. It first explains different types of research interviews and then guides the researcher through various stages of interviewing, offering practical tips and suggestions. The chapter explains the specifics of interviewing at and on negotiation sites, sampling approaches, access to respondents, interviewer’s effect, conduct of the interview, interview data analysis, and research ethics considerations. The chapter also recounts the author’s experiences of interviewing for PhD research on the IPCC in 2006–2009, as well as including two reflection boxes by Alice Vadrot on oral history interviews and narrative interviews as alternative approaches in the study of global environmental agreement-making.