The core IPA text by Smith, Flowers and Larkin suggest an openess to methods that allow exploration of the individuals sense of being- within the context under examination. I think you would need to consider whether the approach you are using will give access to this and whether the lack of opportunity to use follow up questions may reduce the quality of the information that you gather.

After doing some reading, could conducting skype interviews be an adequate source of obtaining information/data? Whilst the approach is still rather unconventional, it could resolve the issues of not being able to conduct face-to-face?

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A set of Skype-based online interviews would be quite appropriate for the kind of semi-structured interviews that you want to do. I have attached a more recent article, where the authors used Zoom rather than Skype, but almost all of the advice would be the same.

If you have 'got' data from a survey, and can collect no more from these survey respondents, then I suggest that you forget IPA; rather, consider Mark's answer at top, and go with David's suggestion, above.

I have deployed IPA in my own doctoral work, and also teach the IPA approach to doctoral students. Data collected via an IPA survey might seriously limit you when it comes to a multilevel analysis. I am not sure you can elicit "thick data' online, but I may be wrong!

Salam

I think

The advanced IPA discrimination index can provide the quantitative comparisons information.

Web-based Survey system with an advanced IPA discrimination index” is a useful tool for assessment of the quality

For example

client satisfaction assessment (such as body image

This is out of my area of expertise. I rely heavily on subjective, rather than objective, quantifiable data in qualitative research in general and IPA in particular. Simin Arab

Your question led me to the study, I did not do any specialized work on data analysis, however using visual techniques to outline the body and use visual diagrams to convey complete satisfaction until complete dissatisfaction with different organs, (A score of zero to ten like the visual analogue scale of pain assessment) can be helpful in the process of collecting information online

Simon Arab, you have the wrong IPA. Importance Performance Analysis is not related to phenomenonology.

I think that this paper might be useful for you

Evans, Joel R., and Anil Mathur. "The value of online surveys." Internet research 15.2 (2005): 195-219.

Thank you

The interpretative phenomenological analysis is a methodological framework that focus on how people make sense to their life experience. So if your participants are sharing their personal stories or experiences, and you as researcher you can figure out codes and meanings from their answers, then I think you can use it.

best wishes,

Phaedra Longhurst