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related themes were combined into either overall themes or
secondary/subsidiary themes. Also the relationships between each of the
overarching themes were noted.
4 Reviewing
themes
5 Defining and
naming themes
6 Producing the
report
The first task of this phase was to make sure that quotes which
accompanied the themes found were clear, and where necessary
theme/quote amalgamations which did not make sense were re-written.
During this phase the detailed explanations given to themes (and
critically discussed in Chapter VIII Part 2: Interview Results) were
given, ensuring that they clearly represented what each theme was. Also
how each theme fits into the overall questions asked in the project was
discussed.
The outcomes of the thematic analysis are brought together in this stage.
Therefore ensuring that descriptions and accompanying quotations
clearly represent each theme, as well as how each theme fits into the
overall question asked in the work, is described.
Table 7 describes how each of the steps suggested by Braun & Clarke (2006) for the successful carrying out
of thematic analysis were integrated into the thematic analysis of the semi-structured interviews in the presented
study. Closeness and familiarity to the data was gained via primarily transcription of semi-structured interview
digital recordings and repeatedly reading the transcripts - this also helped to gain initial ideas for potential codes
and themes. Step 2 presents the thematic analysis as being data-driven, meaning that the data was coded around
the questions asked of participants (Braun & Clarke, 2006). In order to generate initial codes the transcripts were
worked through sentence-by-sentence, noting each time codes were presented.
The third phase began by analysing each of the various codes that had been discovered in previous phases.
A number of codes were deemed to be strongly related to each other, with those doing so joined to make various