This one-day training course is designed for PhD students who already have interviewing experience and want to develop advanced skills. Through a mix of theory and practical exercises, you'll learn about different interview types and consider the development of interviews for different participants, purposes, and contexts. You will also learn ways to enhance and adapt your interview techniques, manage sensitive topics, and generate rich, in-depth data. 

Dr Alice Tawell is currently a Researcher Co-Investigator on the John Fell funded project ‘The enactment of part-time timetables in English schools.’ Before this, Alice was Co-Lead on the ‘Belonging in education: co-designing an evidence-informed model of practice’ project (SGD Impact Fund) and helped establish the Belonging in Education Research Network. Alice also recently led on the final report for the Department for Education funded ‘Evaluation of the extension of virtual school heads’ duties to children with a social worker’ and was Co-Investigator and Research Officer on the ESRC-funded project ‘The political economies of school exclusion and their consequences’.

Dr Tawell's main research areas include:

1. School exclusion
2. Equity, inclusion, and belonging in education
3. Policy sociology
4. Collaboration, and multi-agency working