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I know it can be a bit late somehow. But I think this can help you.

Hi Gail, 

You might explore the work of Jonathan Smith at Birkbeck, London, and Michael Larkin at Birmingham University. http://www.ipa.bbk.ac.uk. Also, Max van Manen and Clark Moustakas. "Qualitative Inquiry And Research Design" by Creswell may also be useful as it situates phenomenology among other qualitative research methods.

Dear Gail,

Is there a reason you chose interpretive phenomenological analysis (IPA), instead of the descriptive phenomenological method? As far as I know, IPA does not have a fixed set of steps. 

The article  might be helpful:

Michael Gill's recent article in Organizational Research Methods gives a good overview of a range of phenomenological approaches, including IPA, with some application examples - link to the article provided below.

http://orm.sagepub.com/content/17/2/118.abstract

Read, Think, Read and Think,  Read and Think again as many times as possible. Never forgetting the framework/platform you as an interpreter is operating from and with-in.

The more you read, think, read and think, it enhances an insight into the participants' stories.

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I know it can be a bit late somehow. But I think this can help you.

The following publication may further help, particularly: “what makes a good IPA paper?” See: Smith, 2011, p. 24.

• Hefferon, K. and Gil-Rodriguez, E. (2011) Methods: Interpretative phenomenological analysis, The Psychologist, 24, 10, pp. 756-759.
• Larkin, M. and Thompson, A. R. (2012) Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis in Mental Health and Psychotherapy Research, in Harper, D. and Thompson, A.R. (eds.) Qualitative research methods in mental health and psychotherapy: a guide for students and practitioners. John Wiley & Sons: Oxford, UK, pp. 101-116. (See: A step-by-step Approach to using IPA/Analytic Process in IPA, Larkin and Thompson, 2012, pp. 104-112).
• Pringle, J., Drummond, J., McLafferty, E. and Hendry, C. (2011) Interpretative phenomenological analysis: a discussion and critique, Nurse Researcher, 18, 3, pp. 20-24.
• Smith, J. A. (2011) Evaluating the contribution of interpretative phenomenological analysis, Health psychology review, 5, 1, pp. 9-27.
• Storey, L. (2016) Doing Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis, in Lyons, E. and Coyle, A. (eds.) Analysing Qualitative Data in Psychology. 2nd ed. London: Sage Publications Ltd, pp. 68-83.

Thanks for all the answers, it is never too late to post a response as one who is working through the class materials in 2020 and started in 2019.

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Really useful links, provide a good starting point to developing research proposal.

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Data generate, Identify themes, Cluster themes, Organize themes on table

I also recommend reading Smith, Flowers and Larkin (2009) which is something of a "bible" for doing an IPA study. I am referring to it frequently in writing my own doctoral thesis. Here is a link to it on the Sage site: https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/interpretative-phenomenological-analysis/book227528

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