Since the study was undertaken in a girls' school, the participants were all female, but from different year groups. Though academic ability was not a factor used for selection, the cohort of participants is representative of the ability range for this school.
Participants - these were the students who captured the images and began the initial process of filtering and categorising them:
M & X Y7 (interviewed as a pair)
El Y9
Em Y10
H Y12
Respondents - these were the students who discussed and interpreted the previously captured images, in so doing refining and developing emerging categories and theory during theoretical sampling:
G Y7
A & N Y8 (interviewed as a pair)
O Y8
I Y10
R Y11
C Y13
M Y13
T Y13