Abigail Locke
Abigail Locke has a BSc and PhD from Loughborough University, as well as a PGCE from the University of Leicester. She has lectured at Coventry University, the University of Derby, Loughborough University and University of Huddersfield. Abigail is currently Professor in Psychology at the University of Bradford.
Abigail is a critical social/health psychologist and has research interests around gender, identity, parenting and qualitative methodologies. Her current research work focuses on societal constructions of ‘good’ motherhood’ and ‘good fatherhood’, and she has applied this lens to issues around stay-at-home-dads, infant feeding and the timing of motherhood. Abigail is committed to a vision of psychology as a broad and diverse discipline. Abigail has strong links with the British Psychological Society (BPS) and is currently Deputy-Chair of the BPS Research Board and a Trustee.
Primary Interests:
- Applied Social Psychology
- Communication, Language
- Emotion, Mood, Affect
- Gender Psychology
- Health Psychology
- Interpersonal Processes
- Research Methods, Assessment
- Self and Identity
- Sociology, Social Networks
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Gender Equality Initiatives
Constructing (and Resisting) the "Good Parenting" Mandate
Journal Articles:
- Abell, J., Locke, A., Condor, S., Gibson, S., & Stevenson, C. (2006). "Trying similarity, doing difference": The role of interviewer self-disclosure in producing interview talk with young people. Qualitative Research, 6(2), 221-244.
- Avis, J., Wright, C., Fisher, P., Swindells, S., & Locke, A. (2011). Am I doing enough to help them?. Learners, care work and wellbeing. Research in Post-compulsory Education, 16, 47-58.
- Budds, K., Locke. A., & Burr, V. (2013). Risky business: Constructing the choice to delay motherhood in the British press. Feminist Media Studies, 13(2).
- Cromby, J., Brown, S. D., Gross, H., Locke, A., & Patterson, A. (2010). Constructing crime, enacting morality: emotion, crime and anti-social behaviour in an inner-city community. British Journal of Criminology, 50, 873-895.
- Goodings, L., Locke, A., & Brown, S. D. (2007). Social networking technology: Place and identity in mediated communities. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 17, 463-476.
- Locke, A. (2008). Managing agency for athletic performance: A discursive approach to the zone. Qualitative Research in Psychology.
- Locke, A. (2004). Accounting for success and failure: A discursive psychological approach to sport talk. Quest, 56(3), 302-320.
- Locke, A. (2003). "If I'm not nervous, I'm worried, does that make sense?": The use of emotion concepts by athletes in accounts of performance. Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 4(1).
- Locke, A. (2002). Gendered emotion: Personal, cultural or discursive? Feminism & Psychology, 12(1), 97-104.
- Locke, A. (2001). Reconstructing female emotionality. Social Psychological Review, 3(2), 16-26.
- Locke, A., & Edwards, D. (2003). Bill and Monica: Memory, emotion and normativity in Clinton's grand jury testimony. British Journal of Social Psychology, 42, 239-256.
- Patterson, A., Cromby, J., Brown, S. D., Gross, H., & Locke, A. (2011). It all boils down to respect doesn't it?: Enacting a sense of community in a deprived inner-city area. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology.
Other Publications:
- Brown, S. D., & Locke, A. (2008). Social psychology. In W. Stainton Rogers & C. Willig (Eds.), Handbook of Qualitative Methods in Psychology. London: Sage.
- Locke, A. (2011). The social psychologising of emotion and gender: A critical perspective. In W. Ruberg & K. Steenbergh (Eds.), Sexed sentiments. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Gender and Emotion. Rodolphi: NL.
- Robinson, W. P., & Locke, A. (2011). Social psychology and language. In R. Mesthrie (Ed.), Cambridge Handbook of Sociolinguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Abigail Locke
Faculty of Social Sciences
University of Bradford
Bradford, West Yorkshire BD7 1DP
United Kingdom
- Phone: +44 (0) 1274 233978