The Expert Interview and Changes in Knowledge Production

The expert interview as a method of qualitative empirical research, designed to explore expert knowledge, has been developed considerably since the early 1990s. A number of readers has been published1 and thus a gap in the methods’ literature has been dealt with, much to the benefit of many disciplines and fields of research in the social sciences. It can be assumed that through increased reflection on methodical issues research into experts’ knowledge has gained in professionalism and quality.2