Broadly this is, by nature, qualitative research within the constructivist inquiry paradigm, as it looks to understanding a situation as the participants construct it. It sets out to capture what people say and do and how they interpret the world. This we acknowledge. Whilst the underlying principles of our phenomenological approach did not change, we are preared to accept that we may not have remained entirely true to the hermeneutic priciples of phenemenological research throughtout the project. The research therefore might be considered by some to be more accrately labels natualistic rather than phonomenological.
Reliability typically rests on replication.
The focus is more on establishing the match between the constructed realities of respondents and those realities as represented by the evaluator and attributed to various stakeholders. Parallel to external validity or generalisability. Transferability is relative and depends entirely on the degree to which salient conditions overlap or match. The constructivist does not provide the confidence limits of the study, but instead provides as complete a data base as possible in order to facilitate transferability judgements on the part of others. Concerned with the stability of the data over time.