Title: Quality measures for qualitative research: what really matters and why?

Speaker: Dr. Virginia (Ginny) Braun
Professor in the School of Psychology at Waipapa Taumata Rau/The University of Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand, Ahurei/Fellow of Te Apārangi The Royal Society of New Zealand

Biography: A feminist and critical health psychologist, Ginny teaches around gender, sex and sexuality, and critical health psychology topics, and researches a wide range of gender, sexuality and health topics.

Ginny is most widely known as a qualitative methodological scholar, not least for the development of an approach to thematic analysis – reflexive thematic analysis – (with AP Victoria Clarke, and others). Award winning books with Victoria Clarke are Successful Qualitative Research: A Practical Guide for Beginners (Sage, 2013) – translated into Hindi and Marathi – and Thematic Analysis: A Practical Guide (Sage, 2022). They also edited (with Debra Gray) Collecting Qualitative Data: A Practical Guide to Textual, Media and Virtual Techniques (Cambridge, 2017) – translated into (Brazilian) Portuguese. They have developed websites for both thematic analysis (www.thematicanalysis.net) and qualitative story completion (www.storycompletion.net).

*Refrehsments and networking at 5:30pm, with the presentation starting at 6:00pm.

*If you would like to bring any of your books. Dr. Braun will be available for signing after the presentation.

This public presentation is brought to you by the Office of Research and Innovation and the Health Research Institute

Information Poster