Abigail Locke
School of Human and Health Sciences
University of Huddersfield
Queensgate, Huddersfield HD1 3DH
United Kingdom
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Abigail Locke is Principal Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Huddersfield. Her research interests are broadly discursive and she uses discourse analyis and discursive psychology in her research. Previously she has used discursive psychology to look at discourses of mental states, in particular emotion and mind-body discourses. She gained her Ph.D. from Loughborough University, 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. She is currently interested in issues around parenting talk and has been looking at the ways in which topics are discussed in antenatal classes, particularly infant feeding and the representations of gender. Alongside this work, she is working on Emotions and Crime (ESRC funded) with John Cromby, Steve Brown and Harriet Gross. Abigail continues to have a strong interest in gender, emotion and issues around parenting.
She is the current Editor of Social Psychological Review and sits on the Social Psychology committee of the British Psychological Society. 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.
- 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.
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.
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