Dr Victoria Clarke

Thematic analysis (2024)
Book Chapter

This chapter introduces the thematic analysis (TA) family of methods, highlights characteristics shared by the various branches of the TA family, as well as important philosophical, conceptual and procedural differences. We discuss various ways of di... Read More about Thematic analysis.

Thematic analysis: A reflexive approach (2024)
Book Chapter

This chapter introduces the thematic analysis (TA) family of methods. We highlight key features of TA, including theoretical and design flexibility and its status as a technique that can be used within a wide variety of approaches to qualitative rese... Read More about Thematic analysis: A reflexive approach.

Approaches to thematic analysis: Becoming a knowing researcher (2023)
Book Chapter

Thematic analysis is a common choice for analysing qualitative data, involving processes of coding and theme development to generate understanding around patterned meaning. It is typically understood as an analytic method (a theoretically flexible to... Read More about Approaches to thematic analysis: Becoming a knowing researcher.

Thematic analysis (2023)
Book Chapter

The aims of this chapter are to: a) introduce readers to thematic analysis; b) illustrate the phases and practice of reflexive TA – one specific approach to TA – using a worked example of a study exploring constructions of a (hypothetical) gay couple... Read More about Thematic analysis.

Thematic analysis (2023)
Book Chapter

In the social and health sciences, TA has been extensively used for analyzing qualitative data, but until the last decade or so, there had been little discussion of TA as a method or guidance provided for its use (Aronson, 1994; Boyatzis, 1998; Patto... Read More about Thematic analysis.

Doing reflexive thematic analysis (2023)
Book Chapter

This chapter presents the essentials of conceptualising, designing and doing reflexive Thematic Analysis (TA), in counselling and psychotherapy. The authors contextualise TA as a family of methods, with some quite radically different approaches, rang... Read More about Doing reflexive thematic analysis.

Doing reflexive thematic analysis: A reflexive account (2023)
Book Chapter

Reflexive thematic analysis (TA), widely used in education, social work, and counselling research, offers an accessible method for exploring and interpreting a qualitative dataset, and telling a story about patterns of meaning. Doing reflexive TA wel... Read More about Doing reflexive thematic analysis: A reflexive account.

A critical review of the interdisciplinary literature on voluntary childlessness (2021)
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This chapter provides a critical review of the inter-disciplinary research on voluntary childlessness, examining some of the problematic assumptions that underpin the literature and the image of the childfree woman that emerges as a result. It is not... Read More about A critical review of the interdisciplinary literature on voluntary childlessness.

The ebbs and flows of qualitative research: Time, change and the slow wheel of interpretation (2020)
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The qualitative researcher has been described as ‘the instrument for analysis.’ What we bring to the analytic process – our positionalities, skills, tenets, knowledge, and much more – is valued within qualitative paradigms. But what we bring is also... Read More about The ebbs and flows of qualitative research: Time, change and the slow wheel of interpretation.

Pandemic tales: Using story completion to explore sense-making around COVID-19 lockdown restrictions (2020)
Book Chapter

Let’s start our tale about researching in a pandemic with the beginning of a story:
Sam has been keeping in touch with friends online during the COVID-19 Lockdown, and learned that some of them are going to meet up in the big local park, just after... Read More about Pandemic tales: Using story completion to explore sense-making around COVID-19 lockdown restrictions.

Thematic Analysis (2020)
Book Chapter

This chapter provides an introduction to thematic analysis (TA) as a method for developing and interpreting patterns in qualitative data. We distinguish between different ‘schools’ of TA, focusing on: (1) approaches with a foothold in quantitative re... Read More about Thematic Analysis.

Thematic Analysis (2018)
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Innovations in qualitative methods (2017)
Book Chapter

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

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

Thematic analysis (2017)
Book Chapter

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.

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.

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.

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.

Thematic analysis (2015)
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Using thematic analysis in psychology (2014)
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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.

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.

Thematic analysis (2014)
Book Chapter

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

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.

Thematic analysis (2012)
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Man not included? A critical psychology analysis of lesbian families and male influences in child rearing Lesbian and gay parenting (2008)
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This paper explores debates about male presence and influence in lesbian families from a critical psychology standpoint. Critical psychology encompasses a variety of radical approaches to psychological research that reject traditional psychological a... Read More about Man not included? A critical psychology analysis of lesbian families and male influences in child rearing Lesbian and gay parenting.

Gender (2008)
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LGBT psychosocial theory and practice in the UK: A review of key contributions and current developments (2007)
Book Chapter

This paper outlines the recent history of LGBT psychology
and psychotherapy in the United Kingdom, focusing on key publications, and the current terrain, highlighting similarities and differences between the UK and the US contexts. The paper is divi... Read More about LGBT psychosocial theory and practice in the UK: A review of key contributions and current developments.

Introduction to LGB perspectives in psychological and psychotherapeutic theory, research and practice in the UK (2007)
Book Chapter

We are delighted to welcome readers to this collection of papers showcasing current developments in lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) psychological and psychotherapeutic theory, research and practice in the United Kingdom. This is our second foray into... Read More about Introduction to LGB perspectives in psychological and psychotherapeutic theory, research and practice in the UK.

Romance, rights, recognition, responsibilities and radicalism: same-sex couples’ views on civil partnership and marriage (2007)
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It’s all about the trousers (2007)
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From lesbian and gay psychology to LGBTQ psychologies: a journey into the unknown (or unknowable)? (2007)
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Introducing out in psychology (2007)
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Resistance and normalisation in the construction of lesbian and gay families: A discursive analysis (2002)
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Once upon a time...: Qualitative story completion methods
Book 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 qualitative research, it has fewer published researc... Read More about Once upon a time...: Qualitative story completion methods.

Dr Victoria Clarke's Outputs (39)