Dr Rachel Starr

Postdoctoral Researcher, Birkbeck University

Rachel Starr is a postdoctoral researcher at Birkbeck, University of London. She uses qualitative methods, particularly Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). Recent work has included projects seeking to understand the everyday emotional lives of teenage girls, experiences of a specialist intervention for multiple sclerosis and past experiences of cognitive behavioural therapy. She is interested in using IPA to explore visual worlds such as those disclosed during art-viewing or captured using visual methods and also in IPA meta synthesis. At Birkbeck she teaches IPA and supervises research projects at undergraduate and postgraduate level. She is a member of the Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis Research Group.