ABSTRACT

Introduction Human beings inhabit various interwoven worlds. We clearly inhabit a corporeal or physical world, but we also inhabit a world of ideas, concepts and theory, and a world of interaction, practice and activity. In qualitative research the worlds of interaction, practice and activity, and concepts, ideas and theory have been privileged over the corporeal world (Dale and Burrell, 2009), as researchers attempt to investigate the complex interrelationships of human life, and contribute to the human understanding of these phenomena.