Inquiry & Research: The 5 Inquiry Pathways: Phenomenological Inquiry

Phenomenological study of how physician leaders in urban community health centers make meaning of their self-concept and identity in their leadership, with data collected through in-person initial and follow-up zoom-facilitated interviews of purposively selected community health center physicians.

Interpretive phenomenology sought to explore congregants' experiences of change in their churches, with in-person audio recorded interview data collected from persons that had recently experienced change in their respective churches. Participants wee recruited through researcher's personal and professional network.

Phenomenology with narrative analysis of interviews sought to understand urban African American pastors' perceptions of the role of the Church in the post mass incarceration era.

Phenomenology explored experience of participating in a baccalaureate level adult learning program conduced using interpretive phenomenological analysis of interviews with adult learners.

Phenomenology based on researcher observations and in-person Interviews of hospice care leaders to understand resilience in the context of servant, spiritual, and authentic leadership theories.

Phenomenology examined through screening for eligibility interviews, data collection initial and follow-up interviews with a purposive snowball sample of granddaughters on the grandmother-granddaughter leadership phenomenon within the real life context.

Phenomenology on how common purpose and leadership inform one another with multiple audiotaped telephone interviews with leaders in fields with the common purpose of nuclear weapons reduction.

Phenomenology examined the path toward wholeness and addressing the question of being a contemplative leader, with in-depth multiple in-person interviews with each participant.

Phenomenology explored through in-person audio-recorded interviews what high profile leaders their thoughts about forgiveness and the meaning and application of the act of forgiveness in the leadership context.

Phenomenological study examined what the son-father relationship experience feels like and how the relationship experience affects leadership development in the son -- in-person interviews were conducted with boys age 17 and men between 18 and 45 years of age. Data were analyzed using modified grounded-theory methodology.

Phenomenology explored through face-to-face interviews with college presidents the nature of relationships within the context of a new college presidency.

Phenomenology studied through phone digitally-recorded interviews the "shift moment" in long-term coaching-coachee relationships.

Phenomenology explored through initial and selected in-person audio-taped interviews about the leader's experience of relational leadership and whether actual friendship between leaders and followers was possible, includes bracketed researcher experience.

Phenomenological study sought to learn through in-person interviews with leaders their perspective about conditions that allow organizations to heal from organizational trauma -- participants were purposively executive directors for sexual assault organizations that had experienced organizational trauma..

Phenomenological inquiry explored through in-person initial and selected follow-up interviews the issues of self-disclosure and gender in the context of leadership.

Interpretive phenomenological study explored group beingness and the coherence phenomenon. Data collection included in-person individual and group interviews, focus groups, researcher observations, and arts-based interpretations.

Interpretive phenomenological study of the experience of being a Latinx Diversity Officer in higher education, with data collected through audio recorded face-to-face interviews and in-person focus groups with some photos and the assistance of co-researchers. Participants were offered food and lodging during the focus group and reflection two-day meeting.

Phenomenology explored the positionality, agentic, and systemic influences on paraeducators -- data collected through audio-recorded initial and follow-up interviews, checklists, and a researcher journal.

Phenomenology (interpretive) sought to understand from the participant perspective, power construction, impact, and cross-sector dynamics in four homelessness-focused Collective Impact initiatives, with participant interviews and review of key documents with reengagement, reflexivity, and thematic analysis.

Phenomenological study explored through face-to-face and zoom-facilitated interviews the lived experiences of female adult students who enters or re-enters college degree completion programs later in life. Data collection included initial interviews, selected follow-up interviews, and a focus group. The researcher joined the subject matter expert facilitated focus group as a participant.

Phenomenological study with collaborative inquiry explored the depth of two adolescent girls lived experiences during their high school years and the degree to which their self-described transformative incidents aligned with transformative learning theory. Data collection and analysis included interviews and hermeneutic method reviews of narrative. Participants and researcher all knew each other and collaborated on this research.

Narrative inquiry based on phone interviews and a conference call panel discussion designed to gain insight into what individual, social, and organizational factors support women's effective leadership in dangerous contexts. Including pre-screening survey and a purposive sample.

Phenomenology explored the struggles and triumphs of a k-12 teacher as she worked with students who experience suffering and success -- purposeful sample with participant journaling and researcher unstructured and conversational interviews.

Phenomenological study combines indigenous methodologies, community-based participatory research, and portraiture to share the lived experiences of people flourishing and thriving in their families and communities to help others using nDigiStorytelling in an Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) community In Northern Michigan.

Phenomenological study combines indigenous methodologies, community-based participatory research, and portraiture to share the lived experiences of people flourishing and thriving in their families and communities to help others using nDigiStorytelling (videoed) in an Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) community In Northern Michigan.

Phenomenology with participants audio recording their thoughts while experiencing a narrated visit to museums of their choice, followed by post-visit conversations to explore the question of the essence of the museum visit experience and the connection between human experience and museums. Data collection also included researcher field notes.

Phenomenology documented through interviews the 18-month reentry trajectory of U.S. Air Force Reservists returning home from a six-month deployment to Afghanistan, with data collected through phone interviews at 6, 12, and 18 months following return, and bracketed researcher reflection on his own experience.

Phenomenology in the context of ethnography and portraiture explored the radical nature of the life of Christian discipleship, the phenomenon with the church's leadership approach of adopting a conversion and transformation -- data collected through a full week's visit to a selected church including interviews with the pastor, staff, and members and attending and observing church events.

Phenomenology with a purposive sample explored the lived-experiences of deaf leaders and their experience of sustaining voice in challenging dominant cultures and systems. Data were collected through initial and selected follow-up interviews captured on video in American Sign Language and transcribed in English, including bracketed researcher's experience notes.

Phenomenological study explored the ways in which the social reality of life-affirming leadership is created and the implications these realities have for social justice worker -- data collected through video interviews and includes researcher autoethnography.

Contains a number of articles on using Phenomenology as a research method