Thematic Analysis_ Phase 3 - searching for themes -Aaron Interview - iteration 2 - Coding Memo_026

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Beginning to collate codes to identify potential sub-themes. I think that ideas are becoming too convergent too quickly. Going to allow ideas to soak and percolate and to focus on being divergent.... to be continued....

























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