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  1. What is the potential for the introduction of an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot to support medical abortion at home? Findings from a patient survey in England and Wales

    Article • BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health, June 2026, BMJ

    Dr Carrie Purcell

  2. The impact of painful sexual and reproductive health procedures: lived experiences and priorities for change

    Article • BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health, January 2026, BMJ

    Dr Carrie Purcell

  3. Shifting discourses, changing interests? How the language of sexual and reproductive health has evolved in the past 50 years

    Article • BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health, November 2024, BMJ

    Dr Carrie Purcell

  4. Foregrounding pain in self-managed early medication abortion: a qualitative study

    Article • BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health, March 2024, BMJ

    Dr Carrie Purcell

  5. Seeking support for abortion online: a qualitative study of women’s experiences

    Article • BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health, February 2024, BMJ

    Dr Carrie Purcell

  6. Social connectedness and supported self-management of early medication abortion in the UK: experiences from the COVID-19 pandemic and learning for the future

    Article • Culture Health & Sexuality, October 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Carrie Purcell

  7. A peer-led, school-based social network intervention for young people in the UK, promoting sexual health via social media and conversations with friends: intervention development and optimisation of STASH

    Article • BMC Public Health, April 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Carrie Purcell

  8. Home-based cardiac rehabilitation for people with heart failure and their caregivers: a mixed-methods analysis of the roll out an evidence-based programme in Scotland (SCOT:REACH-HF study)

    Article • European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, January 2023, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor John GF Cleland, Dr Carrie Purcell

  9. Peer-to-Peer Sharing of Social Media Messages on Sexual Health in a School-Based Intervention: Opportunities and Challenges Identified in the STASH Feasibility Trial

    Article • Journal of Medical Internet Research, February 2021, JMIR Publications Inc.

    Dr Carrie Purcell

  10. Protocol for an implementation study of an evidence-based home cardiac rehabilitation programme for people with heart failure and their caregivers in Scotland (SCOT:REACH-HF)

    Article • BMJ Open, December 2020, BMJ

    Professor John GF Cleland, Dr Carrie Purcell

  11. A peer-led intervention to promote sexual health in secondary schools: the STASH feasibility study

    Article • Public Health Research, November 2020, National Institute for Health Research

    Dr Carrie Purcell

  12. Peer-to-peer sharing of sexual health social media messages in a school-based intervention: Opportunities and Challenges Identified in the STASH Feasibility Trial (Preprint)

    Article • June 2020, JMIR Publications Inc.

    Dr Carrie Purcell

  13. Normalising abortion: what role can health professionals play?

    Article • BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health, April 2020, BMJ

    Dr Carrie Purcell

  14. Toward normalising abortion: findings from a qualitative secondary analysis study

    Article • Culture Health & Sexuality, January 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Carrie Purcell

  15. Conducting sexualities research: an outline of emergent issues and case studies from ten Wellcome-funded projects

    Article • Wellcome Open Research, September 2019, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Dr Ingrid Young, Dr Carrie Purcell, Professor Clarissa Smith

  16. Women's experiences of self-managing early abortion at home

    Article • BJOG An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, June 2017, Wiley

    Dr Carrie Purcell

  17. Women’s embodied experiences of second trimester medical abortion

    Article • Feminism & Psychology, January 2017, SAGE Publications

    Dr Carrie Purcell

  18. Providing abortion: health professional's experiences

    Article • Sociology of Health & Illness, August 2016, Wiley

    Dr Carrie Purcell

  19. Barriers to accessing termination of pregnancy in a remote and rural setting: a qualitative study

    Article • BJOG An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, May 2016, Wiley

    Dr Carrie Purcell

  20. Contraceptive care at the time of medical abortion: experiences of women and health professionals in a hospital or community sexual and reproductive health context

    Article • Contraception, February 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Carrie Purcell

  21. The Sociology of Women's Abortion Experiences: Recent Research and Future Directions

    Article • Sociology Compass, July 2015, Wiley

    Dr Carrie Purcell

  22. The stigmatisation of abortion: a qualitative analysis of print media in Great Britain in 2010

    Article • Culture Health & Sexuality, August 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Carrie Purcell

  23. Access to and Experience of Later Abortion: Accounts from Women in Scotland

    Article • Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, April 2014, Guttmacher Institute

    Dr Carrie Purcell

  24. Phenomenology

    Article • February 2014, Wiley

    Dr Carrie Purcell

  25. Book Review: Working Bodies: Interactive Service Employment and Workplace IdentitiesWorking Bodies: Interactive Service Employment and Workplace IdentitiesMcDowellLinda, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, 2009, £19.99, 272pp.

    Article • The Sociological Review, November 2010, SAGE Publications

    Dr Carrie Purcell