Using phenomenology: researching lived experience

I am a part-time PhD student using phenomenology as a research paradigm to explore the experiences of nurses who mentor students in practice. Phenomenology raises many challenges to the collection and handling of research data. In particular, what it is possible to know about other people's experiences is bound up with philosophical theory that needs to be interpreted by the researcher in order to make sense of the lifeworld being studied.

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Thursday, 6 March 2008

Using phenomenology

I've decided to use hermeneutic phenomenology for my PhD research in the field of pre-registration education in nursing. It would be useful to be in touch with other researchers using the same or similar methodology