Please share: Participants wanted for doctoral research on South Asian women's experiences of pelvic pain - conducted by my student Mahira Budhraja. Study info in English: uwe.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... And in Hindi: uwe.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Please share: One of my counselling psychology students is looking for Muslim women who are working in the UK to share their workplace experiences and any engagement they've had with workplace wellbeing initiatives. Click on the following link to find out more: uwe.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

The top 10 journal articles of 2025 have been released! ✨ Read the year’s most downloaded article on interspecies altruistic behavior, and much more across #psychology https://bit.ly/4bqyCX8

Love the Qualitative Psychology article as one of the top ten. @qualpsy.bsky.social @heidilevitt.bsky.social

#3 - “Being Really Confidently Wrong”: Qualitative Researchers’ Experiences of Methodologically Incongruent Peer Review Feedback by @vicclarke.bsky.social et al.

@ginnybraun.bsky.social and I will be keynoting (me virtually) at the Qualitative Research Connect second Global Qualitative Research Conference in Cebu City, Philippines on 7-9 September 2026. The call for abstracts is now open with a deadline of 31 May: conference.qlrconnect.com

A newish* open access paper: My student Romany Murray's prof doc counselling psych research: “I am secretary, therapist, maid, nurse”: a qualitative exploration of lived experiences of caring for a family member with a BPD diagnosis share.google/z3Q1tYJ6lipb...

A paper based on my MA Music Therapy student Ann MacLeod's research using a novel vignette-story completion technique - ‘Go with the "wave of music" to dive deep’: Exploring perceptions of psychedelic-assisted therapy and the role of music within this practice share.google/IYNcUvKOHJ6P...

Melissa McCallum's important research using qualitative surveys, interviews, focus groups & reflexive thematic analysis (supervised by me) - Exploring Black Women's Experiences in Psychotherapeutic Training and Practice in the UK - Counselling and Psychotherapy Research share.google/QAahdyVCLjtV...

This was a really fun project to supervise! Conducted by Karen Jones for her MA Music Therapy dissertation. Coauthored with @jazztoad.bsky.social "I’m Coming Out": The Role of Music in LGBTQ+ Identities | Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy share.google/ew4XJFpHDXLe...

When @ginnybraun.bsky.social & I first wrote about thematic analysis in 2006 we never imagined writing about TA again let alone writing a lot of chapters! Here's the latest chapter in The Sage Handbook of Health Psychology w/ @garethterry.bsky.social & Lucie Wheeler. Congratulations to the editors!

Exciting to receive my copy of Narrative Story Completion Methodologies by Kim Kelly with a review/overview chapter on qualitative SC methods by @ginnybraun.bsky.social me, Hannah Frith & Naomi Moller. There are 2 other chapters on qualitative SC by @nikilina.bsky.social & Matt Wood & Toni Williams.

If you are a LGBTQ+ identified Heartstopper fan - or know LGBTQ+ fans aged 14+ - my undergrad students' project this year is exploring why this group ❤️ Heartstopper & why positive media representation is important to LGBTQ+ people using a qualitative survey. uwe.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

New open access paper based on Jessica Taylor's doctoral research supervised by me & Zoe Thomas exploring nonbinary people’s everyday experiences of their bodies using qualitative surveys, solicited diaries (such amazing data!) & ints, analysed w/ reflexive TA. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New open access paper by me and @ginnybraun.bsky.social - Exploring U.K. University Students’ Social Perceptions of Dating and Physical Disability Using Story Completion. There are extensive Supplementary Materials which we hope are useful for teaching reflexive TA: awspntest.apa.org/fulltext/202...

Conference season is coming to an end but there’s still time to print @ginnybraun.bsky.social & @vicclarke.bsky.social’s #ReflexiveThematicAnalysis Bingo from @sagepub.com: study.sagepub.com/sites/default/… A must-have for ever#Qualitativeve researcher#DoingQualal

Very pleased to hear that @vicclarke.bsky.social and my Thematic Analysis book is now translated (by Saki Mizoroki) into Japanese... Please share with anyone who may be interested... @amymaher.bsky.social

I have done some updates to @vicclarke.bsky.social and my thematic analysis website - including adding the recent genAI and qual talk... access issues should be fully resolved! www.thematicanalysis.net/talks-about-...

A great talk by @ginnybraun.bsky.social on GenAI and qualitative analysis. Can GenAI do reflexive TA? The short answer is no - reflexive TA is a human practice. Should we use GenAI as qualitative researchers given all the harms of the tech? If you're remotely concerned with social justice ... no???

Thematic Analysis: A Practical Guide now in Greek!

Great thread by @ipanalysis.bsky.social on AI and qualitative analysis (and other things). I remain completely baffled about the enthusiasm for using AI to do qualitative analysis and (reflexive) TA specifically... not least because it is profoundly unethical, exploitative, eco disaster technology

I agree with the suggestion of 🍾 as a suitable celebration @ginnybraun.bsky.social! www.auckland.ac.nz/en/news/2025...

Psychology associate professor, Dr. Victoria Clarke, has co-authored the third most-cited academic paper of the 21st century, according to renowned international science journal @nature.com

Exciting to receive another translation of my @sagepub.com book with @ginnybraun.bsky.social Successful Qualitative Research! The covering letter just said it was a Chinese edition - if anyone recognises the language it would be nice to know!

The most cited papers of the 21st century, including @vicclarke.bsky.social and @ginnybraun.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41... As they told us in this 2021 interview, 'thematic analysis has travelled to places we've never heard of'! www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

An analysis by @nature.com reveals the 25 highest-cited papers published this century. On the list: advances in AI; ways to improve research quality & systematic reviews; cancer statistics and more. www.nature.com/articles/d41... With @richvn.bsky.social @heidiledford.bsky.social & Matthew Hutson

What's the most-cited paper published this century? A @nature.com analysis reveals the 25 highest-cited papers published this century and explores why they are breaking records. (With @helenpearson.bsky.social, @heidiledford.bsky.social and Matthew Hutson). www.nature.com/articles/d41...

@ginnybraun.bsky.social & I were interviewed by @nature.com for a feature on the Most-cited papers of all time. Our paper Using Thematic Analysis in Psychology is number 3! And the 9th most cited paper OF ALL TIME! Wow! Go qualitative research!! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

New in #Qualitative Psychology, "'Being Really Confidently Wrong': Qualitative Researchers’ Experiences of Methodologically Incongruent Peer Review Feedback" by @vicclarke.bsky.social et al. Recommendations for improving methodological integrity of peer review. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

Book while you can - the excellent @ginnybraun.bsky.social @vicclarke.bsky.social on ‘Is COREC a useful tool to guide the reporting of qualitative research?’ (Hint - 👎) Online QUEST/@ncrmuk/@scdtp supported seminar 14 May @12.30 coreq.eventbrite.co.uk

super excited to see a photo of the actual book that is the Polish translation of @vicclarke.bsky.social and my @sagepub.com book Thematic Analysis: A Practical Guide! Sadly I have zero words of Polish! @amymaher.bsky.social 🥰 #ThematicAnalysis #Qualitative

Really looking forward to co-presenting with @vicclarke.bsky.social for this conference - attempting our first virtual/IRL hybrid presentation... #QRMH10

I love one of the reasons Braun & Clarke provided (written as a footnote) as to why they use the term "phase" rather than "step" in their six phase approach to doing reflexive thematic analysis: "Steps and stairs are also one of the ways our physical environments are made inaccessible for many"

Qualitative researchers' experiences of methodologically incongruent peer review feedback w/ @ginnybraun.bsky.social @jeffnz.bsky.social @janeemcallaghan.bsky.social @andrealamarre.bsky.social & @joannasemlyen.bsky.social psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

Really pleased to have this paper on qualitative researchers' experiences of peer review with @ginnybraun.bsky.social @janeemcallaghan.bsky.social @joannasemlyen.bsky.social out there - open access. We recruited lots of the contributors on the other place... psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...

Another new follower - @ginnybraun.bsky.social, here in this 2021 interview around thematic analysis with @vicclarke.bsky.social www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

Now out - chapter on thematic analysis with @vicclarke.bsky.social Nikki Hayfield and @garethterry.bsky.social in Paula Brough (ed) Advanced Research Methods for Applied Psychology www.routledge.com/Advanced-Res...

Participants aged 18+ wanted for survey research on incidental encounters with therapists. You need to have experience of therapy as a client & have encountered your therapist unexpectedly outside of therapy (in person or online - shopping, gym, dating app etc): uwe.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Participants aged 18+ wanted for qualitative research exploring perceptions of body size in therapy - taking part involves completing 2 short stories about a first therapy session. To find out more and take part: uwe.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

New open access paper by me & @ginnybraun.bsky.social on reporting guidelines for qualitative research. We centred qualitative research values in creating these guidelines rather than the more typical expert consensus or consolidation/synthesis: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

How do you solve a problem like COREQ? A critique of Consolidated Criteria for Reporting Qualitative Research - ScienceDirect New out (& maybe still uncorrected proofs) from @vicclarke.bsky.social and me. Please share www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Massive thank you to @ginnybraun.bsky.social and @vicclarke.bsky.social for writing this paper for us. Absolutely thrilled to have it published. The feedback has been amazing already!

We are absolutely delighted to have published this fantastic paper from @ginnybraun.bsky.social and @vicclarke.bsky.social in Health Promotion International. A critical review of the reporting of reflexive thematic analysis in Health Promotion International academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...

A couple of weeks ago @vicclarke.bsky.social and I did a webinar for Anglia Ruskin CERII seminar series on reporting Big Q qual... Here it is on youtube if you want to watch it... www.youtube.com/watch?v=7V2s...

Had a really fantastic two weeks working with @vicclarke.bsky.social - and supporting our brain work with excellent brain food/positive reinforcement of our good work!

Two fatigued academics virtual high five each other for having finished the full book planning for revising #SuccessfulQualitativeResearch Unfortunately there’s more planning before @vicclarke.bsky.social & I kick into the detailed revisions.

Working lunch with @vicclarke.bsky.social - plotting and planning

Marking good progress of planning revisions with @vicclarke.bsky.social for #SuccessfulQualitativeResearch with crisps and champagne - I mean why not?

Any #PhD students looking to learn about #ThematicAnalysis- I highly recommend @ginnybraun.bsky.social & Victoria Clarke’s YouTube lectures. The 4 part series about RTA was incredibly helpful- even after reading so much about it, the lectures made it *click*! #PhDChat #ECR #QualitativeResearch

Webinar on reporting qualitative research with me and @ginnybraun.bsky.social on Tuesday 21 May 12.30pm UK time - free and open to all: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/values-bas...