Qualitative methods and ‘the (partly) ineffable’ in psychological research on religion and spirituality
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About the author ADRIAN COYLE is a Social Psychologist and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of Surrey, where he fulfils the role of Director of the MSc Programme in Social Psychology. He has been undertaking qualitative research since the mid-1990s, mostly using interpretative phenomenological analysis, grounded theory and discourse analysis. His research and publications have addressed a wide range of topics, including identity, bereavement, religion and spirituality and various issues within lesbian and gay psychology. With Evanthia Lyons, he is co-editor of Analysing Qualitative Data in Psychology (Sage, 2007).
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