Virginia Braun FRSNZ is a New Zealand psychology academic specialising in thematic analysis and gender studies.
[4] She is perhaps best known for her collaboration with British psychologist Victoria Clarke around thematic analysis and qualitative research methods.
[5] After undergraduate and masters studies in psychology 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.
[6] Braun returned to as a lecturer in psychology Auckland in 2001, rising to full professor in 2017.
[9][10] In 2021, Braun was awarded the Marsden Medal by the New Zealand Association of Scientists, in recognition of "her global impact on the development of qualitative empirical methods and for the generosity of spirit she expresses through this work.