Interviews with Staff
Three full-time members of staff were interviewed in focus sessions and individual interviews at the start and end of the project. Questions were again set within a semi-structured framework to allow the interviewer to ask supplementary questions if required. The interviews were again coded and interpreted within a constructivist grounded framework (Charmaz, 2005). The use of the grounded approach implied that the information gathered in the first interviews was subsequently thematised and provided the focus for the second round of interviews. In addition to developing a set of themes, the answers given by the students and staff in the first interviews were, in line with the disclosed themes, used to generate questions in relation to their first response.