Virginia Braun
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New Zealand psychology academic specialising in thematic analysis and gender studies
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Virginia Braun's Degrees
- PhD Psychology University of Auckland
- Masters Psychology University of Auckland
- Bachelors Psychology University of Auckland
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Virginia Braun is a New Zealand psychology academic specialising in thematic analysis and gender studies. She is particularly known for her scholarship on the social construction of the vagina and designer vagina cosmetic surgery, body hair and heterosexuality. She is perhaps best known for her collaboration with British psychologist Victoria Clarke around thematic analysis and qualitative research methods. Together they have published numerous papers, chapters, commentaries and editorials on thematic analysis and qualitative research, and an award-winning and best selling qualitative textbook entitled Successful qualitative research. They have a thematic analysis website at The University of Auckland. More recently - with the Story Completion Research Group - they have published around the story completion method.
Virginia Braun's Published Works
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Published Works
- Using thematic analysis in psychology (2006) (101152)
- Successful Qualitative Research: A practical guide for beginners (2013) (4727)
- Reflecting on reflexive thematic analysis (2019) (2634)
- One size fits all? What counts as quality practice in (reflexive) thematic analysis? (2020) (1492)
- Teaching thematic analysis: Overcoming challenges and developing strategies for effective learning (2013) (1443)
- What can “thematic analysis” offer health and wellbeing researchers? (2014) (1053)
- To saturate or not to saturate? Questioning data saturation as a useful concept for thematic analysis and sample-size rationales (2019) (830)
- Using thematic analysis in sport and exercise research (2016) (755)
- Thematic analysis (2017) (748)
- What can "thematic analysis" offer health and wellbeing researchers? (2014) (467)
- Can I use TA? Should I use TA? Should I not use TA? Comparing reflexive thematic analysis and other pattern‐based qualitative analytic approaches (2020) (427)
- The online survey as a qualitative research tool (2020) (348)
- Using thematic analysis in counselling and psychotherapy research: A critical reflection (2018) (307)
- Conceptual and design thinking for thematic analysis (2021) (302)
- (Mis)conceptualising themes, thematic analysis, and other problems with Fugard and Potts’ (2015) sample-size tool for thematic analysis (2016) (234)
- ‘Most of Us Guys are Raring to Go Anytime, Anyplace, Anywhere’: Male and Female Sexuality in Cleo and Cosmo (2006) (211)
- The `Fair Deal'? Unpacking Accounts of Reciprocity in Heterosex (2003) (187)
- In Search of (Better) Sexual Pleasure: Female Genital ‘Cosmetic’ Surgery (2005) (184)
- Defining (Hetero)Sex (2001) (183)
- How to use thematic analysis with interview data (process research) (2014) (159)
- Socio-cultural representations of the vagina (2001) (154)
- Female genital cosmetic surgery: a critical review of current knowledge and contemporary debates. (2010) (148)
- Collecting Qualitative Data: A Practical Guide to Textual, Media and Virtual Techniques (2017) (133)
- ‘A starting point for your journey, not a map’: Nikki Hayfield in conversation with Virginia Braun and Victoria Clarke about thematic analysis (2019) (125)
- “It Feels So Good It Almost Hurts”: Young Adults' Experiences of Orgasm and Sexual Pleasure (2014) (122)
- ‘No girl wants to be called a slut!’: women, heterosexual casual sex and the sexual double standard (2017) (121)
- ‘THE WOMEN ARE DOING IT FOR THEMSELVES’ (2009) (108)
- What can "thematic analysis" offer health and wellbeing researchers? (2014) (106)
- The perfectible vagina: Size matters (2001) (104)
- Interruptus Coitus: Heterosexuals Accounting for Intercourse (1999) (99)
- “It Shouldn’t Stick Out from Your Bikini at the Beach” (2013) (94)
- “Snatch,” “Hole,” or “Honey‐pot”? Semantic categories and the problem of nonspecificity in female genital slang (2001) (84)
- Telling it straight? Dictionary definitions of women's genitals (2001) (68)
- Novel insights into patients' life-worlds: the value of qualitative research. (2019) (61)
- Sexual Coercion Among Gay and Bisexual Men in Aotearoa/New Zealand (2009) (55)
- Heterosexism in Focus Group Research: Collusion and Challenge (2000) (55)
- Unpacking the “Pleasures” and “Pains” of Heterosexual Casual Sex: Beyond Singular Understandings (2017) (51)
- 'With the best of reasons': cervical cancer prevention policy and the suppression of sexual risk factor information. (1999) (49)
- The “Sassy Woman” and the “Performing Man”: Heterosexual casual sex advice and the (re)constitution of gendered subjectivities (2014) (49)
- Casual sex as ‘not a natural act’ and other regimes of truth about heterosexuality* (2013) (47)
- Breaking a Taboo? Talking (and Laughing) about the Vagina (1999) (45)
- ‘It's kind of me taking responsibility for these things’: Men, vasectomy and ‘contraceptive economies’ (2011) (44)
- To let hair be, or to not let hair be? Gender and body hair removal practices in Aotearoa/New Zealand. (2013) (44)
- Gay Men’s Explanations of Health and How to Improve It (2013) (42)
- The 'designer vagina' and the pathologisation of female genital diversity: interventions for change (2010) (42)
- Editorial Introduction to the Special Issue: Using Story Completion Methods in Qualitative Research (2019) (40)
- Spreading the Word, but What Word is That? Viagra and Male Sexuality in Popular Culture (2006) (38)
- ‘Proper sex without annoying things’: Anti-condom discourse and the ‘nature’ of (hetero)sex (2013) (38)
- Innovations in qualitative methods (2017) (37)
- Thou Shalt Not Covet Another Man? Exploring Constructions of Same‐Sex and Different‐Sex Infidelity Using Story Completion (2015) (35)
- Sticking My Finger up at Evolution (2012) (31)
- ‘When I was a bastard’: constructions of maturity in men's accounts of masculinity (2009) (31)
- "She'll be right"? National identity explanations for poor sexual health statistics in Aotearoa/New Zealand. (2008) (30)
- Doctoring New Zealand's gay men. (2008) (29)
- Thematic Analysis: A Practical Guide (2022) (29)
- Vagina equals woman? On genitals and gendered identity (2005) (27)
- Short but Often Sweet (2017) (26)
- ‘Risk’ and sexual coercion among gay and bisexual men in Aotearoa/New Zealand–key informant accounts (2009) (26)
- ‘I’m committed to her and the family’: positive accounts of vasectomy among New Zealand men (2011) (26)
- Qualitative story completion: Possibilities and potential pitfalls (2018) (25)
- “Aren’t Labels for Pickle Jars, Not People?” Negotiating Identity and Community in Talk About ‘Being Gay’ (2014) (25)
- “Stroppy Bitches Who Just Need to Learn How to Settle”? Young Single Women and Norms of Femininity and Heterosexuality (2018) (24)
- “Bad girls” And “Good girls”? sexuality and cervical cancer (1999) (23)
- Pubic hair and its removal: A practice beyond the personal (2017) (22)
- How can a heterosexual man remove his body hair and retain his masculinity? Mapping stories of male body hair depilation (2018) (22)
- Toward good practice in thematic analysis: Avoiding common problems and be(com)ing a knowing researcher. (2022) (20)
- "I think gorilla-like back effusions of hair are rather a turn-off": 'Excessive hair' and male body hair (removal) discourse. (2016) (20)
- Editors' Introduction: Is the Personal Pedagogical? Sexualities and Genders in the Higher Education Classroom (2009) (19)
- Exploring the possibility of sexual‐behavioural primary prevention interventions for cervical cancer (1998) (19)
- Mātauranga Māori and Reproduction: Inscribing connections between the natural environment, kin and the body (2016) (18)
- Sexual Coercion among Gay Men, Bisexual Men and Takatāpui Tāne in Aotearoa/New Zealand. (2006) (18)
- Public Talk about ‘Private Parts’ (1999) (18)
- Feminist qualitative methods and methodologies in psychology: A review and reflection (2019) (15)
- Indigenous (Māori) perspectives on abortion in New Zealand (2017) (14)
- Ethics and the publications of clinical case material. (1997) (14)
- “You Worry, ‘cause You Want to Give a Reasonable Account of Yourself”: Gender, Identity Management, and the Discursive Positioning of “Risk” in Men’s and Women’s Talk About Heterosexual Casual Sex (2018) (13)
- WarNiNG VOices iN a POLicy V acuum: PrOFessiONaL accOuNTs OF Gay meN's heaLTh iN aOTearOa NeW ZeaLaND (2007) (13)
- “What I reckon is, is that like the love you give to your kids they’ll give to someone else and so on and so on”: Whanaungatanga and mātauranga Māori in practice (2017) (12)
- Selling the “Perfect” Vulva (2016) (12)
- Just being and being bad: Female friendship as a refuge in neoliberal times (2020) (11)
- Alcohol and Gay Men: Consumption, Promotion and Policy Responses (2008) (11)
- Gay Men Talking About Health (2012) (11)
- Conceptualizing the Body (2000) (11)
- Breaking gendered boundaries? Exploring constructions of counter-normative body hair practices in Āotearoa/New Zealand using story completion (2019) (11)
- Qualitative story completion for counseling psychology research: A creative method to interrogate dominant discourses. (2020) (11)
- "We have friends, for example, and he will not get a vasectomy": imagining the self in relation to others when talking about sterilization. (2013) (10)
- ‘Basically, it’s sorcery for your vagina’: unpacking Western representations of vaginal steaming (2017) (10)
- Petting a snake? Reflections on feminist critique, media engagement and ‘making a difference’ (2012) (9)
- Structural Impediments to Sexual Health in New Zealand: Key Informant Perspectives (2012) (9)
- Reflecting on qualitative research, feminist methodologies and feminist psychology: In conversation with Virginia Braun and Victoria Clarke (2017) (9)
- Selling a Perfect Vulva? Selling a ‘Normal’ Vulva! (2019) (8)
- Unsafe, Unwanted (2009) (8)
- Referral to an Acute Child and Adolescent Inpatient Unit: The Experiences and Views of Community Mental Health Referrers (2017) (8)
- Qualitative Story Completion: A Method with Exciting Promise (2019) (7)
- Coming out and negotiating heteronormativity in higher education (2009) (7)
- Being both narrative practitioner and academic researcher: A reflection on what thematic analysis has to offer narratively informed research (2019) (7)
- Special Issue: Coming out in higher education (2009) (6)
- Collecting textual, media and virtual data in qualitative research (2017) (6)
- Book Review: Just a Nip and a Tuck? The Culture of Cosmetic Surgery (2005) (6)
- Story completion: The best* new method for qualitative data collection you’ve never even heard of (2018) (5)
- Indigenous (Māori) sexual health psychologies in New Zealand: Delivering culturally congruent sexuality education (2018) (5)
- Negotiating the hairless ideal in Āotearoa/New Zealand: Choice, awareness, complicity, and resistance in younger women's accounts of body hair removal (2018) (4)
- I. Thanks to my Mother... A Personal Commentary on Heterosexual Marriage (2003) (3)
- Erasing/Embracing the marks of aging: Alternative discourses around beauty among Filipina migrants (2016) (3)
- The vagina: an analysis (2000) (3)
- Book Essay (2003) (3)
- Revisiting the Orifice: A Reappraisal of `A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Orifice: Women in Gynecology Textbooks' (2003) (3)
- The Ebbs and Flows of Qualitative Research (2020) (3)
- Is thematic analysis used well in health psychology? A critical review of published research, with recommendations for quality practice and reporting. (2023) (2)
- A Critical Review of the Interdisciplinary Literature on Voluntary Childlessness (2020) (2)
- Between social and biomedical explanation: queer and gender diverse young people’s explanations of psychological distress (2021) (2)
- O33 Qualitative story completion: an innovative method with exciting potential for health research (2019) (1)
- Pandemic Tales: Using Story Completion to Explore Sense-Making Around COVID-19 Lockdown Restrictions (2020) (1)
- O34 Imagining ‘healthy eating:’ using story completion to understand everyday meaning-making (2019) (1)
- Origin of the World: Science and the Fiction of the Vagina (2005) (1)
- Working at self and wellness (2020) (1)
- ‘Māori History can be a Freeing Shaper’: Embracing Māori Histories to Construct a ‘Good’ Pākehā Identity (2022) (0)
- The Abstracts of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Society of Australasian Social Psychologists (2004) (0)
- Structural Impediments to Sexual Health in New Zealand: Key Informant Perspectives (2012) (0)
- Does body hair removal remain a domain of embodied gendered difference? A report from Aotearoa New Zealand. (2013) (0)
- Māori sexual and reproductive health rights: Insights from an under-researched area (2017) (0)
- Book Reviews (2004) (0)
- Female genital cosmetic surgery (2015) (0)
- Qualitative story completion: Possibilities and potential pitfalls - Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke, Hannah Frith, Nikki Hayfield, Helen Malson, Naomi Moller and Iduna Shah-Beckley in conversation (2019) (0)
- A Critical Encyclopedia of Heterosex (2018) (0)
- Everything changes… well some things do: Reflections on, and resources for, reflexive thematic analysis (2022) (0)
- [Short Reviews] (1990) (0)
- Reviews (1999) (0)
- Comparative analysis of seven lifestyles sections: March 8-14 1981 (1984) (0)
- Celebrating 30 years of Feminism & Psychology (2021) (0)
- Pandemic tales: (2020) (0)
- 'contraceptive economies' 'It's kind of me taking responsibility for these things': Men, vasectomy and (2011) (0)
- Tribute to Feminism & Psychology's Founding Editor `Imagining a Space': Sue Wilkinson's Contribution to Feminist Psychology (2008) (0)
- “You Worry, ‘cause You Want to Give a Reasonable Account of Yourself”: Gender, Identity Management, and the Discursive Positioning of “Risk” in Men’s and Women’s Talk About Heterosexual Casual Sex (2018) (0)
- “Stroppy Bitches Who Just Need to Learn How to Settle”? Young Single Women and Norms of Femininity and Heterosexuality (2018) (0)
- ’ s repository of research publications and other research outputs “ We have friends , for example , and he will not get a vasectomy ” : Imagining the self in relation to others when talking about sterilisation (2016) (0)
- Beyond Chicks, Birds and the Generic Male (2004) (0)
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