Travelling in time: using interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) to examine temporal aspects of the personal experience of issues in health and well-being

Smith, Jonathan (2024) Travelling in time: using interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) to examine temporal aspects of the personal experience of issues in health and well-being. European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling , ISSN 1364-2537. (In Press)

Abstract

This paper describes a model for thinking of how participants make sense of temporal aspects of their lived experience. The paper argues for the valuable input that interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) can make to exploring this experiential timeline. After a brief introduction to IPA as an experiential research methodology, I will describe growing interest in longitudinal research among qualitative researchers and outline recent thinking on this by leading researcher Bren Neale. I will then point to the distinctive contribution IPA can make to understanding personal experience of time and change. I will present a taxonomy of my IPA research engaging with it and illustrate each study type with research I have been involved in. During the paper we will see the way in which there are indeed two time-travelers involved in this process: researcher and the participant.

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