PHENOMENOGRAPHY

Useful resources for research students

Phenomenography Annotated Bibliography. Third edition. (1995) by Christine Bruce and Rod Gerber
The annotations in this publication are intended to offer prospective qualitative researchers and/or post-graduate research students a helping hand to enter the sometimes challenging research conversation that is centred around phenomenography.

Phenomenography Annotated Bibliography: 1997 Supplement by Helmut Klaus and Christine Bruce
This supplement continues the Third Edition bibliography in recording papers and publications that have been published since 1995; it supplements the bibliography by including references to pre-1995 publications that were not reported yet.

Short Bibliography

Phenomenography Checklist by Christine Bruce, Camille McMahon and Ian Stoodley
This checklist is designed to help phenomenographic researchers plan and execute their project.

Qualitative research : phenomenography: theory and applications. Videos available at QUT Library.
This series of five videos provide an introduction to the theory and the mechanics required to conduct qualitative consumer research through the stages of fieldwork, analysis and report writing.

Frequently asked questions (to appear)

Other phenomenography resources available elsewhere

The Land of Phenomenography maintained by Biorn Hasselgren of Gothenburg University
A comprehensive introduction to phenomenography.

Linking into the community of phenomenographic researchers

EARLI Special Interest Group 'Phenomenography and Variation Theory' European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction

Phenomenography listserv
Subscribe to "phenomenography" using the address mailserv@acer.edu.au .

Some phenomenography projects in FIT

Phenomenography in the Centre for Information Technology Innovation (2002) Christine Bruce
Presents an overview of phenomenographic studies conducted in the Centre for Information Technology Innovation of the Faculty of Information Technology in the Queensland University of Technology.

The Collective Consciousness of Information Technology Research
A project site exploring facets of the collective consciousness of disparate groups of IT researchers.

Learning to Program
These projects aim to explore the experience of learning to program from the learners' point of view.

The Seven Faces of Information Literacy (1997) Christine Bruce
The various faces of information literacy described here, drawn from the experience of higher educators in two Australian universities, are very different from the lists of skills and attributes that are usually found in literature on the subject.

The Experience of Searching Web-based Information Sylvia Edwards
This doctoral research reveals that university students have varying ways of experiencing web-based information searching.

Other resources

The Association for Qualitative Research
A website maintained by an international organisation which aims to further the practice and study of qualitative research.

Sense Making
Sense-Making is an approach to thinking about and implementing communication research and practice and the design of communication-based systems and activities.