Author(s)/Auteur(s): Luciara Nardon (Carleton University), Guilherme Azevedo (Audencia Business School), Dunja Palic (Carleton University) & Sasha Valgarsson (Carleton University)

Qualitative researchers widely accept that interviewers influence the process and content of interview data (e.g., Josselson, 2013). Current theorizing of interview research thus rejects the notion that interviews are neutral interactions in which knowledge is transferred from participants to researchers (Brinkmann, 2007; Golombisky, 2006; Gubrium et al., 2012; Holstein & Gubrium, 1995). Often, by remaining unaware or unable to articulate their knowledge, thoughts, and feelings, participants involuntarily provide distorted accounts (Azevedo, 2024: 51). In these cases, through the interview process, the research may support and influence the participants' sensemaking process (Cunliffe, 2002), which creates reflection opportunities in which new understandings are made possible (Way et al., 2015; Nardon et al., 2021). We bring attention to such multidisciplinary qualitative methodologies that strive to engage and extract sensemaking processes with minimal influence from the researcher (Tosey et al., 2014).