This article addresses the limited methodological attention to how qualitative inquiry begins from lived experience. It develops everyday practice-based research (EPBR) as an entry-oriented approach that structures how everyday practice becomes researchable.
The article adopts a conceptual and practice-based approach, drawing on qualitative research traditions and practice-based reflections to articulate EPBR. It distinguishes between an Everyday Entry Pathway (EPBR-E), which supports structured reflexive engagement with lived experience, and an Analytical Deepening Pathway (EPBR-A), which enables selective progression to conceptual and theoretical development.
EPBR foregrounds research entry as a distinct stage of qualitative inquiry and reframes reflexivity as a structured and developable practice. The approach demonstrates how experiential knowledge can be articulated and translated into researchable concerns across academic, organisational and policy contexts.
This article contributes to qualitative research by conceptualising research entry as an underexamined stage of inquiry and offering a structured approach that strengthens connections between lived experience and qualitative research practice.
