I suggested the use of IPA to analyse my data when I get to the analysis stage of my research. My paper relates to 'parental active engagement in secondary school'. I have very little knowledge of IPA and would like to connect with someone or a group who can provide guidance with the data collection and analysis. I am currently working on my methodology and is making use of recommended resources (e.g. Smith, Larkin, Flowers etc) as seen in similar questions that were posed. I expect to start collecting data in April and will need some help formulating the questions for the semi-structured interviews and focus group interviews. I want to ensure the questions meet IPA guidelines. Any help or suggestions of sessions I could attend will be greatly appreciated.
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Lorna
My advice for you is to search here on ResearchGate on some discussions or publications related to qualitative research or phenomenological analysis or thematical analysis or questions about these matters such as interview conduct where you can find useful information and guidelines with even some PDFs added to the answers.
I did participate in some of the discussions and questions about interviews and qualitative analysis which you may find on my profile under answers and so easily track the whole conversation of others were they have given input as well.
This is easier then for me to find the conversations that I have participated in and paste the links here.
I hope this will be helpful for you
Thanks Jasmin your feedback is very much appreciated . I have been reading the comments and looking at sources they referred to - very useful.
Hi Lorna, I used the IPA approach for my thesis and you may want to look that up https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/2010/. Its a very intensive but a rewarding process. Even though the thesis did not provide the full detail of the background work of the analysis process, it does give an idea of how you could approach yours. You may also look at this recent paper: Shahmoon, S., Smith, J. A., & Jahanshahi, M. (2019). The Lived Experiences of Deep Brain Stimulation in Parkinson’s Disease: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. Parkinson’s Disease, 2019.
Thanks Daniel for your advice. I will have a look at your paper today. I am trying to formulate the interview questions which has proven to be very challenging. However, I am working diligently on it.
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