Dr Victoria Clarke's Outputs (183)

Therapists’ and non-therapists’ constructions of heterosex: A qualitative story completion study (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 The British Psychological Society Objectives: Little research has examined the discourses that shape therapists’ sense-making around heterosex. This paper explores the discourses of sexuality and gender underpinning therapists’ and non-therapi... Read More about Therapists’ and non-therapists’ constructions of heterosex: A qualitative story completion study.

Qualitative story completion: Possibilities and potential pitfalls (2018)
Journal Article

© 2019, © 2019 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke, Hannah Frith, Nikki Hayfield, Helen Malson, Naomi Moller, and Iduna Shah-Beckley came together at the University of the West of England (UWE) in July 2017 to discuss and s... Read More about Qualitative story completion: Possibilities and potential pitfalls.

Lived Experiences of Childfree Lesbians in the United Kingdom: A Qualitative Exploration (2018)
Journal Article

© The Author(s) 2018. Evidence suggests that most lesbians remain childless, but little is known about the childfree lesbian experience. The current study qualitatively explores the experiences of five childfree lesbians. The results show that even f... Read More about Lived Experiences of Childfree Lesbians in the United Kingdom: A Qualitative Exploration.

New Frontiers of Family: LGBTQ People Pushing Back the Boundaries of Family (2018)
Journal Article

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Receiving, or ‘adopting’, donated embryos to have children: Parents narrate and draw kinship boundaries (2018)
Journal Article

Existing research suggests that embryo donation (ED) may be seen as similar to adoption by those who donate or receive embryos, or it may not. Our qualitative study explored whether having a child via embryo donation initiated kinship connections bet... Read More about Receiving, or ‘adopting’, donated embryos to have children: Parents narrate and draw kinship boundaries.

Using thematic analysis in counselling and psychotherapy research: A critical reflection (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy In this brief commentary, we critically reflect on the use of thematic analysis, and particularly the approach to thematic analysis we have outlined, in counselling and psychotherapy resear... Read More about Using thematic analysis in counselling and psychotherapy research: A critical reflection.

“Some university lecturers wear gay pride t-shirts. Get over it!”: Denials of homophobia and the reproduction of heteronormativity in responses to a gay-themed t-shirt (2018)
Journal Article

© 2019, © 2019 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. This article explores an incident involving a gay pride T-shirt, printed with the slogan “Some people are gay. Get over it!,” that I wore during a university lecture, and students’ predominantly negative... Read More about “Some university lecturers wear gay pride t-shirts. Get over it!”: Denials of homophobia and the reproduction of heteronormativity in responses to a gay-themed t-shirt.

Thematic Analysis (2018)
Book Chapter

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An exploration of bisexual, lesbian, and heterosexual women's body dissatisfaction, and body hair and make-up practices (2017)
Journal Article

Body image pressures for heterosexual women are well established. However, lesbian body image is less well understood, while bisexual women have largely been overlooked with the psychological literature. Further, women's investment in ‘traditional’ a... Read More about An exploration of bisexual, lesbian, and heterosexual women's body dissatisfaction, and body hair and make-up practices.

Innovations in qualitative methods (2017)
Book Chapter

Collecting Qualitative Data: A Practical Guide to Textual, Media and Virtual Techniques (2017)
Book

Is there more to qualitative data collection than (face-to-face) interviews? This book answers with a resounding yes, and introduces the reader to a range of exciting, often novel, techniques for collecting qualitative data in the social and health s... Read More about Collecting Qualitative Data: A Practical Guide to Textual, Media and Virtual Techniques.

Hypothetically speaking: Using vignettes as a stand-alone qualitative method (2017)
Book Chapter

Once upon a time...Qualitative story completion methods (2017)
Book Chapter

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This chapter introduces the story completion (SC) method of collecting qualitative data, a novel technique that offers intriguing potential to the qualitative researcher. Since the method is new to quali... Read More about Once upon a time...Qualitative story completion methods.

Collecting textual, media and virtual data in qualitative research (2017)
Book Chapter

Qualitative research textbooks in the social and health sciences are dominated by a focus on data analysis – the uninitiated could imaging that data collection is simple, straightforward, and probably limited to interviewing either individuals or gro... Read More about Collecting textual, media and virtual data in qualitative research.

Collecting textual, media and virtual data in qualitative research (2017)
Book Chapter

Qualitative research textbooks in the social and health sciences are dominated by a focus on data analysis – the uninitiated could imaging that data collection is simple, straightforward, and probably limited to interviewing either individuals or gro... Read More about Collecting textual, media and virtual data in qualitative research.

Thematic analysis (2017)
Book Chapter

Disgust, shame and the psychosocial impact of skin picking: Evidence from an online support forum (2017)
Journal Article

This article examines the accounts of individuals who problematically pick their skin and explores their subjective experiences. In total, 100 problem disclosure statements were taken from posts made to a publicly accessible online skin picking suppo... Read More about Disgust, shame and the psychosocial impact of skin picking: Evidence from an online support forum.

Reflecting on qualitative research, feminist methodologies and feminist psychology: In conversation with Virginia Braun and Victoria Clarke (2017)
Journal Article

Virginia Braun and Victoria Clarke met as PhD students at Loughborough University where their research was supervised by pioneering feminist psychologists Professors Sue Wilkinson and Celia Kitzinger. They began writing collaboratively about qualitat... Read More about Reflecting on qualitative research, feminist methodologies and feminist psychology: In conversation with Virginia Braun and Victoria Clarke.

Qualitative story completion: A method with exciting promise (2017)
Book Chapter

Story completion (SC) involves a researcher writing a story ‘stem’ or ‘cue’ – or more simply put, the start of a story, usually an opening sentence or two – and asking the participants to complete or continue the story. Most forms of qualitative data... Read More about Qualitative story completion: A method with exciting promise.

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.