I recommend Rubin & Rubin's book, Qualitative Interviewing: The Art of Hearing Data.

Phenisiah - perhaps the attached generic chapter may assist.

Hi Dean,

What is the title of this book?

Regards

Nicola

Thanks everyone for your recommendations.

The following publications may further help:

• Agee, J. (2009) Developing qualitative research questions: a reflective process, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 22, 4, pp. 431-447.
• Foddy, W. (1993) Constructing Questions for Interviews and Questionnaires: Theory and Practice in Social Research. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press
• Gall, M. D., Gall, J. P. and Borg, W. (2003) Collecting Research Data with Questionaires and Interview, in Gall, M.D., Gall, J.P. and Borg, W. (eds.) Educational Research: An Introduction. Seventh ed. New York: Pearson Education, Inc., pp. 221-252.
• Leech, B. L. (2002) Asking questions: techniques for semistructured interviews, Political Science and Politics, 35, 4, pp. 665-668.

For me, preparing questions for qual. Interviews was guided by my study objectives, reviewing literature to identify what's been explored before in other settings or with other group of professionals, and discussion with research team. I did a feasibility study where i also used feasibility measures in helping with designing topic guides.

Hope that's helpful.