Copy the page URI to the clipboard
Ferguson, Gillian and Vicary, Sarah
(2024).
URL: https://www.gre.ac.uk/events/current-events/facult...
Abstract
Background:
Using our own experiences of undertaking qualitative research to provide evidence for social work practice we provide a holistic framework for designing, undertaking, supervising and reviewing a study using IPA as a methodological fit for social work practice and research.
Design:
IPA is the exploration of the lived experience from the perspective of the person who is deemed an expert in their own experience (Reid et al. 2005). IPA now boasts two textbooks, (Smith et al. 2009; Smith et al. 2022) and attracts much reflection as to its use and the way in which it is developing, including in social work (Vicary and Ferguson 2024). While there are critiques of IPA as a methodology (e.g. Paley 2017), we argue that attention to the essential elements of the approach, and the connection between these can lead to robust studies that offer extraordinary insights that inform authentic care. IPA and other forms of hermeneutic phenomenology get to the heart of lived experience and making sense of this. Conceptualising IPA using the holistic framework can support those working on the ground to see tangible connections between research and how this translates to effective responses to people who are in receipt of care.
CORE (COnnecting REpositories)
CORE (COnnecting REpositories)
