Figure 2
The flowchart outlines a research design process divided into three phases: data preparation and data collection, data coding and data organization, and framework refinement. The first phase involves conducting a literature review to identify theoretical STS constructs and build a framework, determining the unit of analysis, designing an interview protocol, obtaining ethics approval, recruiting participants, conducting and transcribing recorded interviews, and assigning pseudonyms and validating transcripts. The second phase includes reading and familiarizing with validated transcripts, open coding to create first-order codes, documenting codes' definitions, evaluating infrequent codes for relevance, merging overlapping or redundant codes, triangulating empirical findings, and grouping first-order codes into second-order themes.Research design process. Source: Authors' work