The course provides a theoretical understanding of and practical training in the research interview method. The aim of the course is to provide the student with the tools they need to design, plan and execute a scientific study using the research interview method. The focus of the course is on conducting interviews, the role of the interviewer/moderator, the relationship between the interviewer and the interviewees, and practical circumstances in planning and conducting research interviews, including face-to-face interviews and online interviews, single interviews and group interviews, and elite interviews, non-elite interviews and field interviews. The course also situates research interviews within the broader methodology of social science/differentiates research interviews from other research methodologies in social science, discusses the intellectual history of the research interview method, epistemological issues relating to interviews, what research questions are appropriate studying with research interviews, ethical issues related to research interviews, and offers a brief primer on analysing interview data.