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Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis: Outlining an experiential qualitative methodology for psychology
Jonathan A Smith, Birkbeck University of London, UK

I will begin the talk with a short definition of Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) and speak to its theoretical underpinnings in phenomenology, hermeneutics and idiography. I will then present a short example from own research where I have used IPA to address an issue in health. This is because I think the best way to see how a methodology works is to see what it can achieve in practice. While relating the example, I will endeavour to illustrate how it can be seen to be illustrating the three theoretical touchstones mentioned above. I will also briefly discuss what is entailed in getting the sort of data that produces a good IPA study and more recent complex designs which are emerging in IPA work.