All Stories

  1. Barriers and facilitators to improving sleep in mental health settings: A mixed-methods systematic review of patient and professional perspectives using the Theoretical Domains Framework

    Article • May 2026, Center for Open Science

    Dr Abigail Locke

  2. “Accidental parenting” and “responsible citizenship”

    Article • January 2026, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Abigail Locke

  3. Understanding research readiness in psychological services: mixed method findings from a cross-sectional survey pilot.

    Article • October 2025, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Abigail Locke

  4. Mothers discourses on baby monitors: A discursive analysis of mumsnet posts on surveillance and risk management

    Article • Journal of Health Psychology, August 2025, SAGE Publications

    Dr Abigail Locke

  5. New directions for the Journal of Health Psychology

    Article • Journal of Health Psychology, September 2024, SAGE Publications

    Dr Abigail Locke

  6. ‘Are We Sure That He Knew That You Don’t Want to Have Sex?’: Discursive Constructions of the Suspect in Police Interviews with Rape Complainants

    Article • Behavioral Sciences, September 2024, MDPI AG

    Dr Abigail Locke

  7. Applying Discursive Methodologies to Understanding Hate Speech on Social Media Platforms

    Article • September 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Abigail Locke

  8. #mothersday: Constructions of motherhood and femininity in social media posts

    Article • Feminism & Psychology, August 2022, SAGE Publications

    Dr Abigail Locke

  9. Digital families: Gendered relationships in online spaces

    Article • Feminism & Psychology, August 2022, SAGE Publications

    Dr Abigail Locke

  10. Putting the ‘teachable moment’ in context: A view from critical health psychology

    Article • Journal of Health Psychology, June 2022, SAGE Publications

    Dr Abigail Locke

  11. Book Review: Language, gender and parenthood online: Negotiating motherhood in Mumsnet talk by Jai Mackenzie

    Article • Feminism & Psychology, April 2021, SAGE Publications

    Dr Abigail Locke

  12. Applying critical discursive psychology to health psychology research: a practical guide

    Article • Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine, January 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Abigail Locke

  13. Sharenting: Pride, affect and the day-to-day politics of digital mothering

    Article • Social and Personality Psychology Compass, March 2019, Wiley

    Dr Abigail Locke

  14. A meta-methodology to enhance pluralist qualitative research: One man’s use of socio-sexual media and midlife adjustment to HIV

    Article • Psychology & Health, July 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Abigail Locke, Professor Nollaig Frost

  15. Empowering women through the positive birth movement

    Article • Journal of Gender Studies, May 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Abigail Locke

  16. Social media platforms as complex and contradictory spaces for feminisms: Visibility, opportunity, power, resistance and activism

    Article • Feminism & Psychology, February 2018, SAGE Publications

    Dr Abigail Locke

  17. ‘You shut up and go along with it’: an interpretative phenomenological study of former professional footballers’ experiences of addiction

    Article • Qualitative Research in Sport Exercise and Health, November 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Vivien Burr, Dr Abigail Locke

  18. Regendering care or undoing gendered binaries of parenting in contemporary UK society?

    Article • Dialogues in Human Geography, March 2017, SAGE Publications

    Dr Abigail Locke

  19. Understanding process and context in breastfeeding support interventions: The potential of qualitative research

    Article • Maternal and Child Nutrition, February 2017, Wiley

    Dr Abigail Locke

  20. Exploring the depths of gender, parenting and ‘work’: critical discursive psychology and the ‘missing voices’ of involved fatherhood

    Article • Community Work & Family, November 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Abigail Locke

  21. Concealment, communication and stigma: The perspectives of HIV-positive immigrant Black African men and their partners living in the United Kingdom

    Article • Journal of Health Psychology, July 2016, SAGE Publications

    Dr Abigail Locke

  22. “For some people it isn’t a choice, it’s just how it happens”: Accounts of “delayed” motherhood among middle-class women in the UK

    Article • Feminism & Psychology, May 2016, SAGE Publications

    Kirsty Budds, Dr Abigail Locke

  23. Communicating choice: an exploration of mothers’ experiences of birth

    Article • Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology, January 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Abigail Locke

  24. Agency, ‘good motherhood’ and ‘a load of mush’: Constructions of baby-led weaning in the press

    Article • Women s Studies International Forum, November 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Abigail Locke

  25. Work, parenting and gender: the care–work negotiations of three couple relationships in the UK

    Article • Community Work & Family, June 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Abigail Locke

  26. Psychosocial interventions for pregnant women in outpatient illicit drug treatment programs compared to other interventions

    Article • Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, April 2015, Wiley

    Dr Abigail Locke

  27. Research Ethics, Overview

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Abigail Locke

  28. Informed Consent, Overview

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Abigail Locke

  29. Combining Forms of Discourse Analysis: A Critical Discursive Psychological Approach to the Study of ‘Older’ Motherhood

    Article • January 2014, SAGE Publications

    Dr Abigail Locke

  30. Masculinities, care and equality: identity and nurture in men's lives

    Article • Journal of Gender Studies, December 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Abigail Locke

  31. ‘We thought if it’s going to take two years then we need to start that now’: age, infertility risk and the timing of pregnancy in older first-time mothers

    Article • Health Risk & Society, October 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Abigail Locke

  32. “Risky Business”

    Article • Feminist Media Studies, February 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Abigail Locke

  33. ‘Am I doing enough to help them?’ Learners, care work and well‐being: Further Education trainee teachers

    Article • Research in Post-Compulsory Education, March 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Abigail Locke

  34. ‘It all boils down to respect doesn't it?’: Enacting a sense of community in a deprived inner-city area

    Article • Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, January 2011, Wiley

    Dr Abigail Locke

  35. Constructing Crime, Enacting Morality: Emotion, Crime and Anti-Social Behaviour in an Inner-City Community

    Article • The British Journal of Criminology, August 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Abigail Locke

  36. ‘Golden Age’ versus ‘Bad Old Days’

    Article • Journal of Health Psychology, May 2010, SAGE Publications

    Dr Abigail Locke

  37. `Natural versus Taught'

    Article • Journal of Health Psychology, April 2009, SAGE Publications

    Dr Abigail Locke

  38. Managing Agency for Athletic Performance: A Discursive Approach to theZone

    Article • Qualitative Research in Psychology, May 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Abigail Locke

  39. Social networking technology: place and identity in mediated communities

    Article • Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, January 2007, Wiley

    Dr Abigail Locke

  40. Trying similarity, doing difference: the role of interviewer self-disclosure in interview talk with young people

    Article • Qualitative Research, May 2006, SAGE Publications

    Dr Abigail Locke

  41. Accounting for Success and Failure: A Discursive Psychological Approach to Sport Talk

    Article • Quest, August 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Abigail Locke

  42. Bill and Monica: Memory, emotion and normativity in Clinton's Grand Jury testimony

    Article • British Journal of Social Psychology, June 2003, Wiley

    Dr Abigail Locke

  43. Gendered Emotion: Personal, Cultural or Discursive?

    Article • Feminism & Psychology, February 2002, SAGE Publications

    Dr Abigail Locke

  44. Gendered Emotion: Personal, Cultural or Discursive?

    Article • Feminism & Psychology, February 2002, SAGE Publications

    Dr Abigail Locke

  45. Social Psychology

    Article • SAGE Publications

    Dr Abigail Locke

  46. The social psychology of language: a short history

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Dr Abigail Locke