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the initial themes did not appear to fit into a coherent pattern and hence reworked, new themes were created and ‘tried’, moving extracts that did not work in already-existing themes and discarding some. Once the researcher was satisfied that the initial themes ‘adequately capture[d] the contours of the coded data’ and a settled ‘thematic map’ was created. The researcher then moved to the second stage of this phase. This involved a similar process, but concerned the entire data set. The researcher considered both the validity of individual themes in relation to the whole data set and also whether the thematic map (see Figure 5.2) ‘accurately’ reflected the meanings evident in the data set as a whole (Braun & Clarke, 2006). On occasions this required the researcher to re-read and again consider codes. Once the researcher was satisfied with the thematic map representing the different themes, how they fitted together and an overall story about the data he commenced to define and name the themes with precision.