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Biography
Virginia "Ginny" Braun is a New Zealand psychology academic specialising in thematic analysis and gender studies.
Academic career
After undergraduate studies at the University of Auckland, Braun received a Commonwealth Scholarship to Loughborough University with Celia Kitzinger and Sue Wilkinson as her advisors for her 2000 thesis The vagina: an analysis.
Braun returned to Auckland in 2001,rising to full Professor in 2017.
Her 2006 paper Using thematic analysis in psychology with Victoria Clarke (psychologist) in Qualitative research in psychology has more than twenty thousand references according to Google Scholar.
Braun was editor of Feminism & Psychology between 2008 and 2013. She received a Distinguished Leadership Award from the American Psychological Association’s Committee on Women in Psychology in 2013.
In 2015/2016 Braun went public with her experiences seeking a tubal ligation.
Selected works
- Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke and Debra Gray, Collecting qualitative data. A practical guide to textual, media and virtual techniques. Cambridge University Press. 2017. ISBNÂ 9781107054974