An introduction to phenomenographic research

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Sheila Webber
Centre for Information Literacy Research, Information School, The University of Sheffield, 211 Portobello Street, Sheffield, S1 4DP, UK.
Bill Johnston
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Abstract

This article descibes the structure of the workshop on phenomenography which was presented at the EAHIL+ICAHIS+ICLC workshop in Edinburgh, in June 2015. Phenomenography is a qualitative research approach, used to discover variation in peoples conceptions of a phenomenon. After introducing this research approach, there was a discussion of a phenomenographic study and the workshop finished with participants coding an example transcript as practice for data analysis.

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Webber S, Johnston B. An introduction to phenomenographic research. J Eur Assoc Health Info Libr [Internet]. 2016 Mar. 11 [cited 2024 Jul. 3];11(3). Available from: https://ojs.eahil.eu/JEAHIL/article/view/73
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Vol. 11 No. 3 (2015)
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Workshop Report

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