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Video Interviewing Methodological Special Interest Group

The Video Interviewing Methodological Special Interest Group (VI MSIG) is made up of 36 members across 19 organisations in five countries. A core group of organisers co-lead the group, which is chaired by Tim Hanson, Senior Research Fellow, European Social Survey ERIC, at City, University of London.


The VI MSIG meets approximately twice a year. In 2023, the VI MSIG’s activity included:

  1. Delivering three "live video interviewing in survey practice" sessions at the ESRA conference to be held in Milan in July 2023.

  2. Editing a journal special issue on video interviewing for collecting survey data for methods, data, analyses, with a first call being live in May 2023.

  3. Collation of information on video interviewing experiences and best practice for the Survey Data Collection Network in the UK.

To find out more, read our overview of the VI MSIG, which summarises experiences on video interviewing from the different member organisations and lists key research priorities identified. To get in touch, please email Tim Hanson: tim.hanson@city.ac.uk.


Core group

  • Tim Hanson (chair), City, University of London, UK
  • Gabriele Durrant, University of Southampton, UK
  • Fred Conrad, University of Michigan, USA
  • Andrew Jupp, University of Michigan, USA

Members

  • Olga Maslovskaya, University of Southampton, UK
  • Kirsty Cole, National Centre for Social Research, UK
  • Alice McGee, Kantar, UK
  • Tom Huskinson, Ipsos, UK
  • Alex Bogdan, Ipsos, UK
  • Eileen Irvin, Ipsos, UK
  • Adele Bearfield, Ipsos, UK
  • Benjamin Phillips, Social Research Centre, Australian National University, Australia
  • Jasmine Mitchell, City, University of London (European Social Survey HQ), UK
  • Hanyu Sun, NORC (University of Chicago), US
  • Ipek Bilgen, NORC (University of Chicago), US
  • Heidi Guyer, RTI, US
  • Tim Smith, RTI, US
  • Christine Carr, RTI, US

Key outputs

  • Special issue of the journal methods, data, analysis (mda) on video interviewing (paper submissions in 2024 with published papers expected in 2025).
  • The MSIG informed also the programme of Research Strand 3 on Video Interviewing of the Survey Futures projects.
  • A paper, Opportunities and Challenges of Live Video Interviewing: Experiences from across Seven Major UK Social Surveys, was produced as part of Survey Futures. It was also supported by SDC-Net, hosted under NCRM and the VI MSIG. Read the paper


Resources on video interviewing

Here you can find related resources on video interviewing: