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Within the framework of qualitative inquiry strategy, triangulation between methods (Denzin, 1970) was applied in this study. As Cohen et al. (2011, p. 197) note “[t]riangulation between methods involves the use of more than one method in the pursuit of a given objective”. In the case of my research project, I made use of three different data collection methods: survey studies, diary studies and interviews. This approach of combining various research instruments provides a means of checking validity as it adds other perspectives on the issue and thus gives a deeper insight into the subject matter (Flick, 2014, p. 184). In the next section, the three different data collection methods that were used in my study are presented along with reasons for their selection and challenges they entail.