Virginia Braun

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 [https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/successful-qualitative-research/book233059 Successful qualitative research]. They have a [https://www.psych.auckland.ac.nz/en/about/our-research/research-groups/thematic-analysis.html thematic analysis website] at The University of Auckland. More recently - with the [https://www.psych.auckland.ac.nz/en/about/our-research/research-groups/story-completion.html Story Completion Research Group] - they have published around the story completion method. Provided by Wikipedia