What Phenomenological Research is and how is it done.

1. PHENOMENOLOGICAL
INQUIRY
RP Pamplona

2. What is phenomenology?

3. • The discipline of phenomenology may be defined initially
as the study of structures of experience, or consciousness.
Literally, phenomenology is the study of “phenomena”:
appearances of things, or things as they appear in our
experience, or the ways we experience things, thus the
meanings things have in our experience.
Retrieved from: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/phenomenology/

4. • What is it like to experience such
and such?

5. Data Collection
The participant can describe their lived phenomenal experience can be
used to gather data in a phenomenological study. You can use an interview to
gather the participants' descriptions of their experience, or the participants'
written or oral self-report, or even their aesthetic expressions (e.g. art,
narratives, or poetry).
Try to be as non-directive as possible in your instructions. Unlike a
survey or questionnaire, in a phenomenological study you would ask
participants to describe their experience of, for example, "riding on a BC
Ferry", without directing or suggesting their description in any way.
Retrieved from: https://www.capilanou.ca/psychology/student-resources/research-
guidelines/Phenomenological-Research-Guidelines/