For my master thesis, I'm starting a research about siblings of adults with intellectual disabilities that live in a residential facility. My research is about how the siblings experience having a caregiving role for their brother/sister with a disability and sharing the caregiving with professional caregivers. It's not easy to share caregiving with professionals who have different views and not the personal relationship like the siblings have with their brother/sister with a disability. I want to do semistructured interviews with siblings and also focus groups with professional caregivers.
I'm not sure what analysis I would do because it is about experiences that make me look at IPA, but a thematic analysis would work too and is more available for beginners.
Can someone give advice? (English is not my main language)
It sounds like IPA would be a good match to your research project, and there is a new 2nd edition of the Smith et al. textbook on IPA. In general, they encourage beginners to pursue IPA on an in-depth examination of a small number of cases.
Braun and Clarke also have a new textbook which gives much more detail on their version of Reflexive Thematic Analysis. I personally was surprised at how much work would be involved in this type of TA.
I do agree with David L. Morgan. however, based on my humble and small experience, it does not really matter. In many cases, I just analyse the data in a way that seems to be proper and helps to answer my question. and then when it comes to writing the analysis approach I choose anything. I rarely follow the steps that have been mentioned in the article. I write it to pretend that I am following some structured procedure. but in your case, it is clear, at least from in the justification part that you would need to use IPA
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