Dr. Virginia Braun | Quality measures for qualitative research: What really matters and why?

Speaker: Dr. Virginia (Ginny) Braun
Professor in the School of Psychology at Waipapa Taumata Rau/The University of Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand, Ahurei/Fellow of Te Apārangi The Royal Society of New Zealand
Biography: A feminist and critical health psychologist, Ginny teaches around gender, sex and sexuality, and critical health psychology topics, and researches a wide range of gender, sexuality and health topics.
Ginny is most widely known as a qualitative methodological scholar, not least for the development of an approach to thematic analysis - reflexive thematic analysis - (with AP Victoria Clarke, and others). Award winning books with Victoria Clarke are Successful Qualitative Research: A Practical Guide for Beginners (Sage, 2013) - translated into Hindi and Marathi - and Thematic Analysis: A Practical Guide (Sage, 2022). They also edited (with Debra Gray) Collecting Qualitative Data: A Practical Guide to Textual, Media and Virtual Techniques (Cambridge, 2017) - translated into (Brazilian) Portuguese. They have developed websites for both thematic analysis (www.thematicanalysis.net) and qualitative story completion (www.storycompletion.net).