Inquiry & Research: The 5 Inquiry Pathways: Phenomenological Inquiry

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 various qualitative methods