Please read the following scenario and then answer the question associated with it.:

Empowering unpaid carers For the vast majority of people, care begins at home with their families. Many people wish to play a role in caring for their friends and family, and we recognise that for some this can be a significant commitment. The 2011 Census reported that almost 1 in 4 (23% or 1.3 million) of those providing unpaid care were caring for over 50 hours a week. We expect this figure to be higher when the new 2021 Census figures are released. A variety of estimates also exist for the value of unpaid care provision, including the Office for National Statistics who estimate that the gross value added of unpaid care in the UK was 59.5 billion in 2016 (ONS 2016). Caring is not always easy or straightforward. There is a wide variety in caring circumstances, experiences and needs among carers. Caring can be rewarding, but it can also have negative impacts on the carer, such as making it difficult to balance paid employment with care, or preventing people from socialising or undertaking other activities as much as they would like. Just over 1 in 10 (11%) adult unpaid carers report not being in employment due to their caring responsibilities, and this figure rises to 36% among those providing 20 or more hours of care a week. Almost half (45%) of unpaid carers report caring having an impact on their personal and social lives, and 52% report that providing care has an impact on their health, including physical strain, stress or exacerbating an existing condition.

: Briefly describe the approach a phenomenological researcher might take when researching this topic and state a suitable research question for a phenomenological inquiry into the topic. To answer this, describe some key aspects of the methodology that would be needed to research this topic (for example, the data source, the method of capturing this data and the analysis that would need to be used to address the research question you have stated).

You are asked to consider the topic of unpaid caring for friends and family in the UK in terms of how a phenomenological researcher might approach it methodologically.This does not mean the actual questions an interviewer might ask but the wider question for which the method is trying to find an answer. So, consider what the aim of a phenomenological research question might be. What do phenomenological psychologists look for when they do research? The question also asks you to describe some of the key aspects of phenomenological methodology which would be relevant to this research. It might be helpful to imagine you are going to conduct a small-scale phenomenological project to answer your research question. Who would your participants be in terms of their age, gender, etc.? How would you collect the data and analyse it? What would you look out for, and why?You do not need to include a great deal of detail or explanation of your hypothetical study, but make sure you justify your choice (e.g. why you might consider a particular aspect of the lifeworld in your analysis).