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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Abigail Locke |
Abigail Locke is Reader in Applied Social Science at the University of Huddersfield. She is a critical social/health psychologist who uses qualitative methods, in particular discursive methodologies in her research.
She gained her Ph.D. from Loughborough University in 2001, where she was a member of the Discourse and Rhetoric Group (DARG). Her doctoral thesis, "The Mind-Field of Sport: Emotion, Mind and Accountability in Athletes," looked at the interactional currency of mental states for accounting purposes. Since then she has completed an ESRC funded project on emotions and crime with John Cromby (principle investigator), Steve Brown and Harriet Gross.
Abigail is Chair Elect of the British Psychological Society Social Psychology Section and also sits on the Qualitative Methods in Psychology committee. She is a member of the International Society for Critical Health Psychology (ISCHP) and the Society for Reproductive and Infant Psychology (SRIP).
She is an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, a Chartered Psychologist, Chartered Scientist and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
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. (in press, 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
School of Human and Health Sciences
University of Huddersfield
Queensgate, Huddersfield HD1 3DH
United Kingdom
Phone: +44 (0) 1484 472063