The Methods Matter Podcast - from Dementia Researcher & the National Centre for Research Methods. A podcast for people who don't know much about methods...those who do, and those who just want to find news and clever ways to use them in their research.\n\nIn this first series PhD Student Leah Fullegar from the University of Southampton brings together leading experts in research methodology, and dementia researchers that use them, to provide a fun introduction to five qualitive research methods in a safe space where there are no such things as dumb questions!\n\nEpisode One - Qualitative Interviews\n\nTo go with the podcast we had a great artist called Jack Brougham provide an amazing visual guide to this method - Download our free visual how-to guide poster here - https://bit.ly/3DYtBRG\n\nIn expert corner - Dr Kahryn Hughes, from University of Leeds. Director of the Timescapes Archive, Editor in Chief of Sociological Research Online, Convenor of the MA Qualitative Research Methods and a Senior Fellow for the NCRM.\n\nIn researcher ranch - Dr Jemima Dooley, conversation analyst, qualitative researcher and NIHR School for Primary Care Research Fellow, from University of Bristol.\n\nFurther reading referenced in the show:\n\nThe Timescapes Archive https://timescapes-archive.leeds.ac.uk/\nProfessor Ann Oakley Website https://www.annoakley.co.uk/\nProfessor Jennifer Mason Books / Papers https://bit.ly/3kGpWBa\nProfessor Joanna Bornat Books https://bit.ly/3u9PzO0\nDr Kritika Samsi and Professor Jill Manthorpe - https://bit.ly/3EOPKmK\n\nRead more about our guests and listen to more great podcasts at:\n\nhttps://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk\n\nThe National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) provides a service to learners, trainers and partner organisations in the research methods community - methodological training and resources on core and advanced quantitive, qualitive, digital, creative, visual, mixed and multimodal methods.\n\nhttps://www.ncrm.ac.uk/\n\nNCRM is delighted to bring you the 2021 Research Methods e-Festival in collaboration with methods@manchester. Held on 25-29 October 2021, the event will be a celebration of research methods with an interdisciplinary social science flavour.\n\n-- *Minor clarification - Although Jennifer Mason drew on the idea of interviews as 'conversations with a purpose', this language was originally formulated in the work of Robert Burgess. For those of you keen to learn more, check out:\xa0Burgess, Robert G. (l988).Conversations with a purpose: the ethnographic interview in educational research, in: Robert G. Burgess, (Ed)Studies in Qualitative Methodology vo!. 1: Conducting Qualitative Research. Greenwich Connecticut: JAIPress.