Dr Victoria Clarke's Outputs (8)

The anorexia nervosa experience: Shame, Solitude and Salvation (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy Aim: Women with anorexia are often perceived very negatively – for example, as manipulative and deceitful – both by wider society and treatment providers. In this context, it is important f... Read More about The anorexia nervosa experience: Shame, Solitude and Salvation.

Using thematic analysis in sport and exercise research (2016)
Book Chapter

Thematic analysis (TA) is one of a cluster of analytic approaches you can use, if you want to identify patterns of meaning across a qualitative dataset. The widely-used version of TA we outline in this chapter is fairly unique in the canon of qualita... Read More about Using thematic analysis in sport and exercise research.

Reflective report: A qualitative exploration of whether lesbian and bisexual women are ‘protected’ from sociocultural pressure to be thin (2016)
Book Chapter

This reflective report provides another appearance-related example of a thematic analysis study. Whereas the worked example in Chapter 6 focused on gay men’s appearance and provided a predominantly latent-level interpretation of the data, this report... Read More about Reflective report: A qualitative exploration of whether lesbian and bisexual women are ‘protected’ from sociocultural pressure to be thin.

(Mis)conceptualising themes, thematic analysis, and other problems with Fugard and Potts’ (2015) sample-size tool for thematic analysis (2016)
Journal Article

One of us (VC) was having a conversation with a student recently about the origins and history of thematic analysis (TA). The student had read Qualitative Research in Counselling and Psychotherapy (McLeod, 2011), a text which presents TA as a variant... Read More about (Mis)conceptualising themes, thematic analysis, and other problems with Fugard and Potts’ (2015) sample-size tool for thematic analysis.

‘Not a big deal’? exploring the accounts of adult children of lesbian, gay and trans parents (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Taylor & Francis. Most literature on lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans families has focused on the psychological and social well-being of school aged children with lesbian, gay and trans (LGT) parents. The aim of the present study was to expl... Read More about ‘Not a big deal’? exploring the accounts of adult children of lesbian, gay and trans parents.

Thematic analysis (2016)
Book Chapter

This chapter provides an introduction to thematic analysis (TA) as a method for identifying and interpreting patterns in qualitative data. We distinguish between two main ‘schools’ of TA – (1) approaches with a foothold in quantitative research, whic... Read More about Thematic analysis.

Wearing a gay slogan t-shirt in the higher education classroom: A cautionary tale (2016)
Journal Article

© 2015, © The Author(s) 2015. Evidence from numerous studies suggests that homophobia and heterosexism remain common on university campuses. Since the 1970s LGBT academics have been encouraged to ‘put themselves on the line’ and ‘come out’ in the cla... Read More about Wearing a gay slogan t-shirt in the higher education classroom: A cautionary tale.

New frontiers of family - Naomi Moller and Victoria Clarke explore embryo donation and voluntary childlessness, ahead of their Society seminar series (2016)
Journal Article

March sees the first of four seminars on ‘New Frontiers of Family’, a British Psychological Society sponsored series that aims to examine the psychological implications of emerging forms of family in the UK – those beyond genetic relatedness, and tho... Read More about New frontiers of family - Naomi Moller and Victoria Clarke explore embryo donation and voluntary childlessness, ahead of their Society seminar series.