Virginia Braun

Virginia Braun (Ginny; she/her they/them) is a Professor in the School of Psychology at Waipapa Taumata Rau/The University of Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand, and an Ahurei/Fellow of Te Apārangi The Royal Society of New Zealand. A feminist and critical health psychologist, Ginny teaches around gender, sex and sexuality, and critical health psychology, 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 with Victoria Clarke – now known as reflexive thematic analysis (www.thematicanalysis.net). Their original 2006 publication is the 3rd most cited paper of the 21st century. Award winning books with Victoria Clarke are Successful Qualitative Research: A Practical Guide for Beginners (Sage, 2013) – (Translations: Chinese, Hindi, Marathi) – and Thematic Analysis: A Practical Guide (Sage, 2022) – (Translations: Polish, Farsi, Greek, Japanese, Turkish, Chinese). They edited (with Debra Gray) Collecting Qualitative Data: A Practical Guide to Textual, Media and Virtual Techniques (Cambridge, 2017) – (Translation: Brazilian Portuguese). Other qualitative scholarship focuses on story completion (www.storycompletion.net) and qualitative surveys, as well as matters of quality.