Thematic Analysis

Virginia Braun is a Professor in the School of Psychology at The University of Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. She is a feminist and critical (health) psychologist and teaches around gender and psychology and critical health psychology at undergraduate and graduate levels. When she gets time for it, her research (sometimes in collaboration with Victoria Clarke) explores the intersecting areas of gender, bodies, sex/sexuality, health, and (now) food. She is on Twitter @ginnybraun, where sometimes her tweets about qualitative research, usually in that case a retweet of an awesome thread by Victoria. Victoria Clarke is an Associate Professor in Qualitative and Critical Psychology in the Department of Health and Social Sciences at the University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol, where she teaches about qualitative methods, and gender and sexuality, and supervises student research, on a variety of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. When she′s not busy collaborating with Virginia Braun, she has conducted research in the intersecting areas of gender and sexuality, family and relationships, and appearance and embodiment. She is also active on Twitter – mainly tweeting about thematic analysis and qualitative research @drvicclarke.

Braun and Clarke are extremely engaging, interesting, accessible writers, and would you believe, fun to read. I can′t recommend Thematic Analysis: a Practical Guide enough!

• Section One: Venturing forth! Doing reflexive thematic analysisChapter One: It’s almost time to depart: Getting ready for your thematic analysis adventureBefore analysis: A brief design interludeChapter Two: Taking an initial lay of the land: Introducing our worked example dataset and doing familiarisationChapter Three: Exploring this world in detail: Doing codingChapter Four: Finding, losing, then finding your way again: Developing your themesChapter Five: Arriving home and telling a story about your adventure: Writing your thematic analysis reportSection Two: Going deeper for tip-top reflexive thematic analysis: Theory, interpretation, and quality mattersChapter Six: A not-so-scary theory chapter: Conceptually locating reflexive thematic analysisChapter Seven: So what? The importance of interpretation in reflexive thematic analysisChapter Eight: One big happy family? Understanding similarities and differences between reflexive TA and its methodological siblings and cousinsChapter Nine: Getting your own house in order: Understanding what makes good reflexive thematic analysis to ensure quality