Virginia Braun

Virginia Braun
Nationality New Zealand
Alma mater Loughborough University
Scientific career
Fields thematic analysis and gender studies
Institutions University of Auckland
Thesis The vagina: an analysis (2000)
Academic advisors Sue Wilkinson and Celia Kitzinger

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.[1]

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.[2]

In 2015/2016 Braun went public with her experiences seeking a tubal ligation.[3][4]

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. ISBN 9781107054974
  • Virginia Braun, Nicola Gavey, and Kathryn McPhillips. "The fair deal'? Unpacking accounts of reciprocity in heterosex." Sexualities 6, no. 2 (2003): 237-261.

References

  1. ↑ "Inaugural lecture by Professor Virginia Braun: Telling tales of gendered bodies – The University of Auckland". Psych.auckland.ac.nz. 15 June 2017. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
  2. ↑ "People". Sexual Politics Now. 28 January 2015. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
  3. ↑ "The Kiwi woman who campaigned to be sterilised". Now To Love. 17 May 2016. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
  4. ↑ "Motherhood not for every woman, professor says". Stuff.co.nz. 27 November 2015. Retrieved 27 June 2017.


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