Dr Gerardine Matthews-Smith G.Matthews-Smith@napier.ac.uk
Associate Professor
Lived Experience of Mindfulness
People Involved
Project Description
The research purpose is to establish how people with differing forms of enduring conditions construct, make sense of, and apply meaning to, mindfulness as they undertake the 8-week introductory MBSR programme and continue to develop skills over a twelve month period. Scientific phenomenological methods based upon both descriptive and hermeneutic phenomenology will be employed to examine participant perspectives using the Lifeworld fractions as a heuristic guide (Ashworth & Ashworth, 2003). The fractions which include selfhood (identity), sociality (relationships), embodiment (felt sense) and temporality encompass intrinsic aspects of what it is to be human and provide a set of lenses through which various elements of experience can be analysed.
| Status | Project Complete |
|---|---|
| Funder(s) | Queen's Nursing Institute Scotland |
| Value | £9,819.00 |
| Project Dates | Aug 1, 2012 - Jul 31, 2018 |
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