Ep 66 Victoria Clarke

Victoria Clarke is an Associate Professor in Qualitative and
Critical Psychology at the University of the West of England
(UWE), Bristol, UK, where she teaches about qualitative research
methods and supervises student research on various postgraduate
programmes. Her research interests lie in the intersecting areas
of gender and sexuality, and difference and social justice. With
Virginia Braun, she has developed a widely used approach to
thematic analysis, now called reflexive thematic analysis (see
thematicanalysis.net), and has written extensively about this,
including most recently the book Thematic Analysis: A Practical
Guide (SAGE, 2022). They have also co-authored an award-winning
textbook on qualitative research: Successful Qualitative
Research: A Practical Guide for Beginners (SAGE, 2013) and with
Debra Gray co-edited Collecting Qualitative Data: A Practical
Guide to Textual, Media and Virtual Techniques (Cambridge, 2017).
With Virginia and others, Victoria has also written about the
novel creative method of story completion (see
storycompletion.net). She is active on Twitter – mainly tweeting
about thematic analysis and qualitative research
@drvicclarke. 


References


Azoulay, P., Fons-Rosen, C., & Graff Zivin, J. S. (2019).
Does science advance one funeral at a time? American Economic
Review, 109(8), 2889-2920.


Goffman, E. (1955). On face-work: An analysis of ritual elements
in social interaction. Psychiatry, 18(3), 213-231.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00332747.1955.11023008


Scully, D. (2013). Understanding sexual violence: A study of
convicted rapists. Routledge.


Willcox, R., Moller, N., & Clarke, V. (2019). Exploring
attachment incoherence in bereaved families’ therapy narratives:
An attachment theory-informed thematic analysis. The Family
Journal, 27(3), 339-347.