The lived experience of remembering a 'good' interview: Micro-phenomenology applied to itself
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The lived experience of remembering a 'good' interview: Micro-phenomenology applied to itself. / Heimann, Katrin; Boelsbjerg, Hanne Bess; Allen, Chris; van Beek, Martijn; Suhr, Christian; Lübbert, Annika; Petitmengin, Claire.
In: PHENOMENOL COGN SCI, Vol. 22, No. 1, 2023, p. 217-245.Research output: SCORING: Contribution to journal › SCORING: Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - The lived experience of remembering a 'good' interview: Micro-phenomenology applied to itself
AU - Heimann, Katrin
AU - Boelsbjerg, Hanne Bess
AU - Allen, Chris
AU - van Beek, Martijn
AU - Suhr, Christian
AU - Lübbert, Annika
AU - Petitmengin, Claire
N1 - © The Author(s) 2022.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Micro-phenomenology is an interview and analysis method for investigating subjective experience. As a research tool, it provides detailed descriptions of brief moments of any type of subjective experience and offers techniques for systematically comparing them. In this article, we use an auto-ethnographic approach to present and explore the method. The reader is invited to observe a dialogue between two authors that illustrates and comments on the planning, conducting and analysis of a pilot series of five micro-phenomenological interviews. All these interviews asked experienced researchers of micro-phenomenology to browse their memories to identify one successful and one challenging instance of working with micro-phenomenology. The interview then focused on this reflective task to investigate whether applying the method to itself might reveal quality criteria. The article starts by presenting a shortened and edited version of the first of these interviews. Keeping the dialogue format, we then outline the micro-phenomenological analysis procedure by demonstrating its application to part of this data and corresponding passages of other interviews. We focus on one unexpected finding: interviewed researchers judge the quality of an interview in part based on a connection or contact between interviewer and interviewee. We discuss these results in the context of the means and intentions of the method and suggest avenues for future research.
AB - Micro-phenomenology is an interview and analysis method for investigating subjective experience. As a research tool, it provides detailed descriptions of brief moments of any type of subjective experience and offers techniques for systematically comparing them. In this article, we use an auto-ethnographic approach to present and explore the method. The reader is invited to observe a dialogue between two authors that illustrates and comments on the planning, conducting and analysis of a pilot series of five micro-phenomenological interviews. All these interviews asked experienced researchers of micro-phenomenology to browse their memories to identify one successful and one challenging instance of working with micro-phenomenology. The interview then focused on this reflective task to investigate whether applying the method to itself might reveal quality criteria. The article starts by presenting a shortened and edited version of the first of these interviews. Keeping the dialogue format, we then outline the micro-phenomenological analysis procedure by demonstrating its application to part of this data and corresponding passages of other interviews. We focus on one unexpected finding: interviewed researchers judge the quality of an interview in part based on a connection or contact between interviewer and interviewee. We discuss these results in the context of the means and intentions of the method and suggest avenues for future research.
U2 - 10.1007/s11097-022-09844-4
DO - 10.1007/s11097-022-09844-4
M3 - SCORING: Journal article
C2 - 36644374
VL - 22
SP - 217
EP - 245
JO - PHENOMENOL COGN SCI
JF - PHENOMENOL COGN SCI
SN - 1568-7759
IS - 1
ER -