'A starting point for your journey, not a map': Nikki Hayfield in conversation with Virginia Braun and Victoria Clarke about thematic analysis.

Keywords: Codebook; coding; emerge; interpretation; methodology; positivist; reflexivity; theme; theory; topic summary EN Codebook coding emerge interpretation methodology positivist reflexivity theme theory topic summary 424 445 22 04/11/22 20220401 NES 220401 In 2006, psychologists Virginia Braun and Victoria Clarke published a paper entitled I Using thematic analysis in psychology i in I Qualitative Research in Psychology i . That type of analysis doesn't tell a thematic story. B Ginny: b One of the things that we articulated later (Braun and Clarke [11]; Braun, Clarke, and Rance [5]) is the idea of a central organising concept, the central idea of each theme. In the subsequent years they have written an award winning and best-selling qualitative research textbook I Successful Qualitative Research i (Braun and Clarke [11]), numerous chapters (e.g. Braun and Clarke [4]; Braun, Clarke, and Rance, [5]; Braun, Clarke, and Terry [6]; Braun, Clarke, and Weate, [7]; Clarke and Braun [21]), encyclopaedia entries (Clarke and Braun [18], [19]), commentaries (Braun and Clarke [13], [14]; Clarke and Braun [23]) and editorials (Braun and Clarke [12]; Clarke and Braun [22]), and created a website (https://www.psych.auckland.ac.nz/en/about/our-research/research-groups/thematic-analysis.html), about TA, as well as written chapters and papers (e.g. Braun, Clarke, and Gray [9]; Clarke and Braun [24]), and co-edited a book and a special issue related to other aspects of qualitative research (Braun et al. [15]; Braun, Clarke, and Gray [8]). That we can offer more on: Ginny and Victoria are currently finishing that very paper, and it will eventually be available in a forthcoming Special Issue of I Qualitative Research in Psychology i on quality in qualitative research (Clarke and Braun [25]). [Extracted from the article]