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Simon Watts
Researcher at Nottingham Trent University
Publications - 34
Citations - 4324
Simon Watts is an academic researcher from Nottingham Trent University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Subjectivity & Interpersonal relationship. The author has an hindex of 14, co-authored 34 publications receiving 3936 citations. Previous affiliations of Simon Watts include Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust & University of East Anglia.
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Giving voice and making sense in interpretative phenomenological analysis
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss two complementary commitments of interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA): the phenomenological requirement to understand and give voice to the concerns of participants; and the interpretative requirement to contextualize and make sense of these claims and concerns from a psychological perspective.
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Doing Q methodology: theory, method and interpretation
Simon Watts,Paul Stenner +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors address some of the more common misunderstandings and misrepresentations that constitute obstacles to the use of one of the very first qualitative research methods to have been developed in the context of psychology.
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Doing Q Methodological Research: Theory, Method & Interpretation
Simon Watts,Paul Stenner +1 more
TL;DR: This book introduces the theory and practice of Q methodology, and takes the reader on a journey from understanding the early history of the method to being in a position where the reader will be able to do Q methodology for themselves.
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The understanding of their illness amongst people with irritable bowel syndrome: a Q methodological study.
TL;DR: Through use of Q methodology with a sample of 60 people with IBS, a taxonomy of 7 clear and distinct accounts is identified and described, and these data are described in qualitative detail and discussed in relation to the problem of improving communication with doctors, and untangling issues of responsibility for illness.
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The subjective experience of partnership love: a Q Methodological study.
Simon Watts,Paul Stenner +1 more
TL;DR: It is argued that the subjective experiences of the participants themselves, and particularly the holistic or Gestalt nature of those experiences, are left behind in the process of abstraction, and this new research seeks to rectify that situation.