Victoria Clarke (psychologist)

Victoria Clarke
Alma materLoughborough University
Scientific career
Fieldsqualitative methods, human sexuality, feminist psychology and queer psychology
InstitutionsUniversity of the West of England
ThesisLesbian and gay parenting: a feminist social constructionist analysis (2002)

Victoria Clarke is a UK-based chartered psychologist and an Associate Professor in Qualitative and Critical Psychology at the University of the West England, Bristol. Her work focuses on qualitative psychology and critical psychology, and her background and training is in the fields of women studies, feminist psychology, LGBTQ psychology, and qualitative methods. She is particularly known for her ongoing collaboration with Professor Virginia Braun around qualitative methods. Braun and Clarke developed a widely cited approach to thematic analysis in 2006[1] and have published extensively around thematic analysis since then.[2] They have also collaborated on an award-winning qualitative research textbook and more recently have published around the qualitative story completion method with the Story Completion Research Group.

  1. ^ Braun, Virginia; Clarke, Victoria (2006). "Using thematic analysis in psychology". Qualitative Research in Psychology. 3 (2): 77–101. doi:10.1191/1478088706qp063oa. hdl:2027.42/138221. S2CID 10075179.
  2. ^ Braun, Clarke; Clarke, Victoria (2019). "Reflecting on reflexive thematic analysis". Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health. 11 (4): 589–597. doi:10.1080/2159676X.2019.1628806. S2CID 197748828.