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Critical Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis

Critical Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (Critical IPA) is a qualitative approach that combines the double-hermeneutic interpretive work of standard IPA with an explicit critical lens, examining not only how participants make sense of their experience but also how power, social structures, ideology, and systemic inequalities shape that experience. It retains the ideographic, person-centred rigour of IPA while asking whose interests are served and what is silenced or constrained.

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Critical Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / qualitative
  • Smith, J. A., Flowers, P., & Larkin, M. (2009). Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis: Theory, Method and Research. Sage. · ISBN 978-1412908344
  • Eatough, V., & Smith, J. A. (2017). Interpretative phenomenological analysis. In C. Willig & W. Stainton-Rogers (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research in Psychology (2nd ed., pp. 193–209). Sage. · URL
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Same method familyCritical Discourse Analysismachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketCritical Hermeneutic Phenomenologymachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketCritical phenomenologymachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketInterpretive phenomenologymachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyThematic Analysismachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.

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