Table 3.

Example of analysis

Theme	Category	Code	Quote
Financial concerns	Support during study	Conflict between needing to secure a living and doing a PhD	I have seen many people not being able to do PhD because they have not got simultaneously funding to stay in the institute and work
	Lack of research funding impacting on studies	Challenge of insecure research funding	Ensuring funding for research and you have support for life. There are certain uncertainties and these are real challenges
Quality of supervision	Time constraints to do research	Supervisor demands interfering with studies	… my supervisor wants to see me every single day … every time we meet there will be changes … [for example] look at the physical activity [then] cancel it … when a lot of work will have been done …
	Quality of supervision	Good supervisor is important for study	Sometimes one is unlucky and does not get a good supervisors. So getting a good supervisor is very important