Phenomenological research helps us understand what it is like to experience a specific situation or life event. By describing the stories of people who actually lived through a particular experience and their perceptions of it, your research can cut to the heart of what it was truly like.

An underlying assumption of phenomenology is that the subjective experience of individuals is valid and important, and that understanding the meanings of experiences, as perceived by the individual who experiences them, is key to developing knowledge on certain topics.

It seeks to investigate the universal features of consciousness while avoiding assumptions about the external world, aiming to describe phenomena as they appear to the subject, and to explore the meaning and significance of the lived experiences.

Phenomenology utilizes a distinctive method to study the structural features of experience and of things as experienced. It is primarily a descriptive discipline and is undertaken in a way that is largely independent of scientific, including causal, explanations and accounts of the nature of experience.