Values based guidance for reporting qualitative research

Join ARU's Centre for Education Research on Identities and Inequalities (CERII) online to hear from guest speakers Virginia Braun and Victoria Clarke about their work on qualitative methods.

There are numerous existing qualitative reporting checklists and standards, many of which entail a methodologically incoherent and seemingly unknowing combination of different conceptual frameworks for qualitative researching.

Virginia and Victoria argue that in this context, developing reporting checklists and standards through synthesis/consolidation of existing guidance, or consensus, often results in tools that promote rather than discourage methodological incoherence.

In response to flaws or shortcomings in existing tools, they present the Big Q Qualitative Reporting Guidelines (BQQRG) which articulate a values-, rather than consensus-, based framework for reporting and evaluating qualitative research. They hope this will support both methodological coherence and reflexive openness in qualitative research reporting.

Speakers

Virginia Braun

Virginia Braun (she/her / they/them), is a New Zealand psychology academic whose research uses critical approaches for gender, health and sexuality research.

Virginia (Ginny) also specialises in qualitative methodology, writing extensively with Victoria Clarke and others around a number of methods and approaches, but most popularly, thematic analysis. They are currently beginning revision for the second edition of their first award-winning and best-selling qualitative textbook, Successful Qualitative Research: A Practical Guide for Beginners (SAGE, 2013).

Victoria Clarke

Victoria Clarke (she/her / they/them), is a UK-based psychologist and an Associate Professor in Qualitative and Critical Psychology at the University of the West England, Bristol.

Victoria is particularly known for her ongoing collaboration with Virginia Braun around qualitative methods. Braun and Clarke developed a widely cited approach to thematic analysis in 2006 and have published extensively around thematic analysis since then, including their most recent award-winning book, Thematic Analysis: A Practical Guide (Sage, 2022).