I will be conducting a qualitative research into well-being and help-seeking behaviour in elite coaching and I'm trying to think of new/creative ways how to do this rather than just conducting interviews. For example, I was considering utilizing personal diaries. I'm open to interviews and focus groups as well, but would like to add a new dimension to it.
Could anyone recommend some alternative methods or interesting books/research papers to look at?
Thank you.
You may want to have a look at Think Aloud as a method: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_aloud_protocol
I have been advocating dyadic interviews, where you would bring two coaches together to share and compare their responses. Note that it is relatively easy to adapt this method to online interviews.
Article Introducing Dyadic Interviews as a Method for Collecting Qua...
Maybe a visual dimension...
I really think that visual data bring important and surprising information in research. You can ask participants to draw, to photograph or to make a video to illustrate their ideas about the topic of your research. You can then use the images in interviews (see visual elicitation).
I think that the ideas that David and Florentina presented sound really good. Marketa, If you are utilizing personal diaries, you can analyze them in many different ways. Besides narrative and discourse analysis it is possible also to analyze rhetoric or rhetorical tools that your participants are using in their diaries.
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