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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
Hayfield, N., Halliwell, E., & Clarke, V. (2017). An exploration of bisexual, lesbian, and heterosexual women's body dissatisfaction, and body hair and make-up practices. Psychology of Sexualities Section Review, 8(2), 55-67

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
Braun, V., Clarke, V., & Gray, D. (2017). Innovations in qualitative methods. In B. Gough (Ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Social Psychology (243-266). Palgrave Macmillan

Collecting Qualitative Data: A Practical Guide to Textual, Media and Virtual Techniques (2017)
Book
Braun, V., Clarke, V., & Gray, D. (2017). V. Braun, V. Clarke, & D. Gray (Eds.), Collecting Qualitative Data: A Practical Guide to Textual, Media and Virtual Techniques. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

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
Gray, D., Royall, B., & Malson, H. (2017). Hypothetically speaking: Using vignettes as a stand-alone qualitative method. In V. Braun, V. Clarke, & D. Gray (Eds.), Collecting Qualitative Data: A Practical Guide to Textual, Media and Virtual Techniques. UK: Cambridge University Press

Once upon a time...Qualitative story completion methods (2017)
Book Chapter
Clarke, V., Hayfield, N., Moller, N., Tischner, I., & The Story Completion Research Group. (2017). Once upon a time...Qualitative story completion methods. In V. Braun, V. Clarke, & D. Gray (Eds.), Collecting Qualitative Data: A Practical Guide to Textual, Media and Virtual Techniques (45-70). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

First paragraph of / introduction to chapter: 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
Braun, V., Clarke, V., & Gray, D. (2017). Collecting textual, media and virtual data in qualitative research. In Collecting qualitative data: A practical guide to textual and virtual techniques (1-12). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (CUP). https://doi.org/10.1017/9781107295094

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
Braun, V., Clarke, V., & Gray, D. (2017). Collecting textual, media and virtual data in qualitative research. In V. Braun, V. Clarke, & D. Gray (Eds.), Collecting qualitative data: A practical guide to textual and virtual techniques (1-12). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (CUP)

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
Terry, G., Hayfield, N., Clarke, V., & Braun, V. (2017). Thematic analysis. In C. Willig, & W. Stainton Rogers (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research in Psychology (17-37). (2nd). London: SAGE Publications

Disgust, shame and the psychosocial impact of skin picking: Evidence from an online support forum (2017)
Journal Article
Anderson, S., & Clarke, V. (2019). Disgust, shame and the psychosocial impact of skin picking: Evidence from an online support forum. Journal of Health Psychology, 24(13), 1773-1784. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105317700254

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
Jankowski, G., Braun, V., & Clarke, V. (2017). Reflecting on qualitative research, feminist methodologies and feminist psychology: In conversation with Virginia Braun and Victoria Clarke. Psychology of Women Section Review, 19(1), 43-55

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
Braun, V., Clarke, V., Hayfield, N., Moller, N. P., & Tischner, I. (2017). Qualitative story completion: A method with exciting promise. In P. Liamputtong (Ed.), Handbook of Research Methods in Health Social Sciences (1-18). Singapore: Springer

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.