title: Be my guest! Challenges and practical solutions of undertaking interviews with children in the home setting.
abstract: This article aims to share critical debate on undertaking interviews with children in the home setting and draws on the authors' extensive research fieldwork. The article focuses on three key processes: planning entry to the child's home, conducting the interviews and exiting the field. In planning entry, we include children's engagement and issues of researcher gender. In conducting the interviews, we consider issues such as the balance of power, the importance of building a rapport, the voluntary nature of consent and the need for a flexible interview structure. Finally, we address exiting from the child's home with sensitivity at the end of the interview and/or research study. Undertaking research in the child's home provides a known and familiar territory for the child, but it means that the researcher faces a number of challenges that require solutions whilst they are a guest in a child's home.
authors.affiliation: Coventry University, UK jane.coad@coventry.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Jane
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Coad
authors.affiliation: Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust; London South Bank University, UK.
authors.forename: Faith
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Gibson
authors.affiliation: London South Bank University, UK.
authors.forename: Maire
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Horstman
authors.affiliation: The University of Manchester, UK.
authors.forename: Linda
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Milnes
authors.affiliation: University of Salford, UK.
authors.forename: Duncan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Randall
authors.affiliation: University of Central Lancashire; Alder Hey Children's NHSFT, UK & University of Tasmania, Australia.
authors.forename: Bernie
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Carter
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D002652:Child Behavior; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003142:Communication; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D036301:Qualitative Research; D012111:Residence Characteristics
keywords: Children; fieldwork; health; interviews; qualitative approaches