My PhD is on Conceptualising Social Enterprise as a public health "intervention" and I'm into the last phase (hooray!) where I intend to undertake a series of semi-structured interviews (20-30) to elicit views from social enterprise managers/social entrepreneurs on how they think that the work that they do impacts upon people's lives, and how they might explain the various 'causal pathways' and/or 'mechanisms of action'.

Obviously I can analyse the data and the themes, and the interlinking concepts that emerge using some sort of inductive method (e.g. Constructivist Ground Theory Method) via NVivo or whatever. So far, pretty straightforward...

However, one idea that I had relates to testing, refining and further developing my initial conceptual model.

I *think* I would like to visually express the range of discourses, the ideas and concepts raised and the interlinking nature of the themes, and how they could be understood in terms of existing theory relating to (what I would call) 'intermediate' indicators of health (e.g. social capital indicators, capabilities, sense of coherence that sort of thing) and construct some sort of "metamodel" of the various discourses. Something that might look visually appealing.

Any ideas at all the best way of going about this?

Or is this just a load of old tosh, and I should go back to the crayons and Etch-a-sketch?

Any help or advice gratefully appreciated :)

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