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Jonathan Alan Smith is a British
psychologist A psychologist is a professional who practices psychology and studies mental states, perceptual, cognitive, emotional, and social processes and behavior. Their work often involves the experimentation, observation, and explanation, interpretatio ...
who has been very prominent in promoting
qualitative research Qualitative research is a type of research that aims to gather and analyse non-numerical (descriptive) data in order to gain an understanding of individuals' social reality, including understanding their attitudes, beliefs, and motivation. This ...
within
social psychology Social psychology is the methodical study of how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others. Although studying many of the same substantive topics as its counterpart in the field ...
and
health psychology Health psychology is the study of psychological and behavioral processes in health, illness, and healthcare. The discipline is concerned with understanding how psychological, behavioral, and cultural factors contribute to physical health and il ...
. In particular, he has developed and promoted a particular approach known as
interpretative phenomenological analysis Interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) is a qualitative research, qualitative form of psychology research. IPA has an idiographic focus, which means that instead of producing Nomothetic, generalization findings, it aims to offer insights in ...
(IPA).Valsiner, Jaan & Connolly, Kevin, eds. (2003). ''Handbook of Developmental Psychology'', p. xxvi. London: SAGE Publications Ltd.


Career

Smith achieved a DPhil in Psychology from the
University of Oxford The University of Oxford is a collegiate university, collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the List of oldest un ...
and then held lectureships at Keele and
Sheffield Sheffield is a city in South Yorkshire, England, situated south of Leeds and east of Manchester. The city is the administrative centre of the City of Sheffield. It is historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire and some of its so ...
Universities. He has at least 160 publications to his name.


Awards and Distinctions

* Honorary Fellow,
British Psychological Society The British Psychological Society (BPS) is a representative body for psychologists and psychology in the United Kingdom. History It was founded on 24 October 1901 at University College London (UCL) as ''The Psychological Society'', the org ...
* Fellow,
Academy of Social Sciences The Academy of Social Sciences (AcSS) is a representative body for social sciences in the United Kingdom. The academy promotes social science through its sponsorship of the Campaign for Social Science, its links with Government on a variety of m ...


Works

* Smith, J.A. (2003) (ed) ''Qualitative Psychology: A Practical Guide to Research Methods''. London: Sage. * Smith, J., Flowers, P. & Larkin, M. (2009
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis: Theory, Method and Research
London: SAGE.


See also

* Phenomenological psychology * Qualitative psychological research


References


External links


"‘The person becomes the universe of exploration"
at bps.org.uk, 19 May 2021 Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Academics of Birkbeck, University of London English psychologists British psychologists Alumni of the University of Oxford {{UK-psychologist-stub