An Individual Interview at the Researcher to Reader Conference is a conversation between a moderator and an expert. Typically, each interview will last about 15-30 minutes, probably including some time for participant Q&A.

An interview session works well when focussed individual questions are more effective than a roundtable conversation, or when a potential speaker would be more comfortable answering questions than being in a multi-person roundtable, or standing at the podium giving a presentation. A proposal may be made for a single Individual Interview, or a series of 2-4 Interviews; it can be very effective to have a series of separate shorter interviews on the same topic with multiple experts; this works like a roundtable discussion but without the multi-way conversation. A series of interviews can be grouped together in the programme, or distributed throughout the timetable.

An Interview will not normally include any presentations or slides, or lengthy preambles, but will get straight into a lively conversation.

In the R2R Call for Papers, people who have proposed one or more Interviews may be invited to adapt their proposal to another session type. People who have proposed other session types may be invited to adapt their proposal to be part of a Interview. People may also contribute to more than one session at the Conference (for example participating in an Interview as well as facilitating a Collaborative Workshop).

Interviewers and interviewees are strongly encouraged to participate in the whole Conference, not just appear for their own session, and are offered a discount on Conference attendance of 50% off the normally applicable early-bird tariff. Interviewers and interviewees are invited to the informal contributor dinner at the end of the first day of the Conference, at their own cost.

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