Janet Heaton is a Sociologist at the University of Exeter Medical School in Devon, England. Janet has carried out applied health research using mainly qualitative methods for many years, working within the National Health Service (NHS) and at the University of Leeds and University of York, before moving to Exeter in 2010. Since 1997, Janet has had a special interest in the secondary analysis of qualitative data. She obtained her PhD on the topic and has written several articles and a book called Reworking Qualitative Data, published by SAGE in 2004, in which she explores the epistemological, m...