Dr Victoria Clarke's Outputs (183)

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)
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© 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)
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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.

'Eating disorders are not about food, they're about life': Client perspectives on anorexia nervosa treatment (2015)
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© SAGE Publications. Poor success rates and high levels of dropout are common features in the treatment of anorexia nervosa. Using semi-structured interviews, this study elicited the views of 12 women who were recovered, or in recovery, for anorexia... Read More about 'Eating disorders are not about food, they're about life': Client perspectives on anorexia nervosa treatment.

“Not Hiding, Not Shouting, Just Me”: Gay Men Negotiate Their Visual Identities (2015)
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©, © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. This study explored how British gay men make sense of their appearance and clothing practices and the pressures and concerns they attend to in discursively negotiating their visual identities. A convenience sample... Read More about “Not Hiding, Not Shouting, Just Me”: Gay Men Negotiate Their Visual Identities.

Thou shalt not covet another man? Exploring constructions of same-sex and different-sex infidelity using story completion (2015)
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© 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. This study explores conceptualisations of same- versus different-sex infidelity in the context of a heterosexual marriage using story completion. A convenience sample of 57 female and male participants completed one o... Read More about Thou shalt not covet another man? Exploring constructions of same-sex and different-sex infidelity using story completion.

One-on-one with Victoria Clarke (2015)
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One place

I’m lucky to live somewhere very beautiful – a small town on the southern edge of the Cotswolds. Going for an evening walk, hearing cows mooing… On my first family holiday in the Cotswolds as a teenager I fell in love with the landscape... Read More about One-on-one with Victoria Clarke.

Thematic analysis (2015)
Book Chapter

Using thematic analysis in psychology (2014)
Book Chapter

Thematic analysis is a poorly demarcated, rarely-acknowledged, yet widely-used qualitative analytic method within psychology. In this paper, we argue that it offers an accessible and theoretically-flexible approach to analysing qualitative data. We o... Read More about Using thematic analysis in psychology.

An Examination of the Tripartite Influence Model of Body Image: Does Women’s Sexual Identity Make a Difference? (2014)
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© 2014, © The Author(s) 2014. According to the tripartite influence model of body image, appearance pressures from family, friends, partners, and the media lead to body dissatisfaction and restrained eating behaviours. There is strong support for thi... Read More about An Examination of the Tripartite Influence Model of Body Image: Does Women’s Sexual Identity Make a Difference?.

How to use thematic analysis with interview data (process research) (2014)
Book Chapter

This chapter introduces you to thematic analysis (TA), one of the many methods of analysis for qualitative research. Qualitative research, like all research, begins with a research question. In contrast to quantitative research, in which the research... Read More about How to use thematic analysis with interview data (process research).

Thematic analysis (2014)
Book Chapter

Thematic analysis (TA) is a method for identifying, analysing and interpreting patterned meanings or ‘themes’ in qualitative data. In this chapter we outline our approach to TA (Braun & Clarke, 2006, 2012, 2013) and demonstrate core processes of codi... Read More about Thematic analysis.

"It feels so good it almost hurts": Young adults' experiences of orgasm and sexual pleasure (2014)
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Orgasm is a "goal" of much sexual activity, and a source of potentially intense pleasure and fulfillment, yet can be fraught with difficulty or distress. Relatively little social science research has explored people's experiences around, and their me... Read More about "It feels so good it almost hurts": Young adults' experiences of orgasm and sexual pleasure.

Thematic analysis (2014)
Book Chapter

Thematic analysis (TA) is a method for identifying and interpreting patterns of meaning across qualitative data.

A qualitative exploration of whether lesbian and bisexual women are 'protected' from sociocultural pressure to be thin (2014)
Journal Article

Heterosexual women in Western cultures are known to experience body image concerns, dieting and disordered eating as a result of intense social pressures to be thin. However, it is theorised that lesbian and bisexual women belong to a subculture that... Read More about A qualitative exploration of whether lesbian and bisexual women are 'protected' from sociocultural pressure to be thin.

Thematic analysis (2014)
Book Chapter

Empirical research within critical psychology is strongly associated with the use of qualitative methods. In the field of qualitative psychology a distinction can be made between experiential and critical approaches (Braun & Clarke, 2012a, Reicher, 2... Read More about Thematic analysis.