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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.

The anorexia nervosa experience: Shame, Solitude and Salvation (2016)
Journal Article
Moller, N., Rance, N., Clarke, V., & Moller, N. P. (2017). The anorexia nervosa experience: Shame, Solitude and Salvation. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 17(2), 127-136. https://doi.org/10.1002/capr.12097

© 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
Braun, V., Clarke, V., & Weate, P. (2016). Using thematic analysis in sport and exercise research. In B. Smith, & A. C. Sparkes (Eds.), Routledge handbook of qualitative research in sport and exercise. London: Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315762012.ch15

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
Huxley, C., Clarke, V., & Halliwell, E. (2016). Reflective report: A qualitative exploration of whether lesbian and bisexual women are ‘protected’ from sociocultural pressure to be thin. In E. Lyons, & A. Coyle (Eds.), Analysing Qualitative Data in Psychology. (Second). London: SAGE Publications

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
Braun, V., & Clarke, V. (2016). (Mis)conceptualising themes, thematic analysis, and other problems with Fugard and Potts’ (2015) sample-size tool for thematic analysis. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 19(6), 739-743. https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2016.1195588

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
Clarke, V., & Demetriou, E. (2016). ‘Not a big deal’? exploring the accounts of adult children of lesbian, gay and trans parents. Psychology and Sexuality, 7(2), 131-148. https://doi.org/10.1080/19419899.2015.1110195

© 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
Clarke, V., & Braun, V. (2016). Thematic analysis. In E. Lyons, & A. Coyle (Eds.), Analysing Qualitative Data in Psychology. (Second). London: SAGE Publications (UK and US)

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
Clarke, V. (2016). Wearing a gay slogan t-shirt in the higher education classroom: A cautionary tale. Feminism and Psychology, 26(1), 3-10. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959353515613812

© 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
Moller, N. P., & Clarke, V. (2016). New frontiers of family - Naomi Moller and Victoria Clarke explore embryo donation and voluntary childlessness, ahead of their Society seminar series. Psychologist, 29, 204-208

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)
Journal Article
Rance, N., Moller, N. P., & Clarke, V. (2017). 'Eating disorders are not about food, they're about life': Client perspectives on anorexia nervosa treatment. Journal of Health Psychology, 22(5), 582-594. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105315609088

© 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.