Ask A Friend co researcher Document Pack and Training Materials

Interview Tutorial for co-researchers following the Ask a Friend method.

'Ask a Friend' is a newly developed peer-interview method devised during the Access Folk project. We invited people in the English folk scene to interview friends, family and acquaintances about their relationship with folk singing in England. In the autumn of 2022, 22 people with some involvement with the folk scene in England interviewed 61 people outside of the scene. All interviewees had a personal connection to the interviewer and most had an interest in other forms of music, arts and culture, but were not currently involved with folk singing.

This submission includes a Document Pack and Training Materials outlining the method for co researchers conducting peer-interviews.

The Document Pack contains a number of documents, forms and templates used to deliver the peer-interview project Ask a Friend (2022-2023).

The Training Resources include video, audio, text and webpage versions of materials shared with co-researchers to develop their peer interviewing skills.

Ask a Friend (AaF) was part of UKRI-funded Future Leaders Fellowship (FLF) project Access Folk and developed by the FLF lead Prof. Fay Hield and Dr Esbjorn Wettermark at the University of Sheffield with project management from Dr Helen Grindley.

These resources can be viewed together with the additional Ask a Friend outputs available in The University of Sheffield's Online Research Data repository (ORDA).

This project received ethical approval by University of Sheffield: 47631

All the available items arising from the project are available in the Access Folk Collection.