Abigail Locke
Biographic Data
| ID | 3799745 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Abigail Locke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Abigail |
| FAMILY NAME | Locke |
| SIGNATURE | LOCKE A |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 68 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Supporting and challenging hate in an online discussion of a controversial refugee policy
Online hate is a serious problem affecting a range of minoritised people. Existing theories suggest that poor behaviour online is due to anonymity but fail to explore how such discussions unfold. This is where a discursive and rhetorical psychological approach is appropriate as it offers a micro-level analysis. In this research paper, a discursive/rhetorical approach is applied to an online debate about a controversial refugee policy in the UK co…
Exploring the depths of gender, parenting and 'work: Critical Discursive Psychology and the 'Missing Voices' of Involved Fatherhood
This paper sets out to capture the missing voices of fathers in discussions around gender, parenting and work. Using Critical Discursive Psychology (CDP), a qualitative methodology that frames discourse, language and action as socially situated, the paper sets out to understand the complexities of involved fatherhood. Using data from two distinct research projects that considered managing tensions around parenting and paid work, alongside the mov…
Pops in Pop Culture: Fatherhood, Masculinity, and the New Man
Concealment, communication and stigma: The perspectives of HIV-positive immigrant Black African men and their partners living in the United Kingdom
This study explored the perspectives of Black men, originally from East Africa, living in the United Kingdom and their partners on what it means to live with diagnosed HIV. This article reports on concealment of HIV-positive status as a strategy adopted by the affected participants to manage the flow of information about their HIV-positive status. Analysis of the data, collected using in-depth interviews involving 23 participants, found widesprea…
Work, parenting and gender: The care-work negotiations of three couple relationships in the UK
Changes globally mean that there are now record numbers of mothers in paid employment and a reported prevalence of involved fathering. This poses challenges to mothers and fathers as they negotiate care–work practices within their relationships. Focusing on interviews with three heterosexual couples (taken from a wider UK qualitative project on working parents), the paper considers care–work negotiations of three couples, against a backdrop of de…
Agency, ‘good motherhood’ and ‘a load of mush’: Constructions of baby-led weaning in the press
‘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
Over the past few decades, the number of women having their first babies over the age of 35 in most developed societies has steadily increased. Concerns have been raised over this trend amidst warnings of both the increased risk of fertility problems and health risks to mother and child. Despite this, research into the timing of pregnancy in the context of decreasing fertility has been somewhat neglected, with research typically framed in biomedi…
Masculinities, care and equality: Identity and Nurture in Men's Lives
"Masculinities, care and equality: identity and nurture in men's lives." Journal of Gender Studies, 22(4), pp. 455–456
‘You don’t know what’s around the corner’: A qualitative study of professional footballers in England facing career transition
Career transition in sport is a rapidly growing area within the field of sport psychology. Interest in this area has been fuelled by the need for an increased number of professional athletes seeking support and assistance during transition from sport. However, whilst research in this field has focused in on a wide range of sports, specific research on retirement in professional football has been limited. Because of this it is argued that current …
Qualitative research in sports and exercise psychology: A timely comment
Natural versus Taught: Competing Discourses in Antenatal Breastfeeding Workshops
This article is an analysis of talk in breastfeeding workshops that are part of National Childbirth Trust antenatal classes. Using audio-recordings from breastfeeding workshops antenatal classes, the data were analysed using a qualitative, discursive methodology based in part on the premises outlined by Potter and Wetherell (1987) and Edwards and Potter (1992, 2001). The analysis demonstrates how there are two main discourses of breastfeeding con…
Trying similarity, doing difference: The Role of Interviewer Self-Disclosure in Interview Talk With Young People
Advocates of semi-structured interview techniques have often argued that rapport may be built, and power inequalities between interviewer and respondent counteracted, by strategic self-disclosure on the part of the interviewer. Strategies that use self-disclosure to construct similarity between interviewer and respondent rely on the presumption that the respondent will in fact interpret the interviewer's behaviour in this way. In this article we …
Trying similarity, doing difference: The Role of Interviewer Self-Disclosure in Interview Talk With Young People
Advocates of semi-structured interview techniques have often argued that rapport may be built, and power inequalities between interviewer and respondent counteracted, by strategic self-disclosure on the part of the interviewer. Strategies that use self-disclosure to construct similarity between interviewer and respondent rely on the presumption that the respondent will in fact interpret the interviewer's behaviour in this way. In this article we …
Exploring the depths of gender, parenting and 'work: Critical Discursive Psychology and the 'Missing Voices' of Involved Fatherhood
This paper sets out to capture the missing voices of fathers in discussions around gender, parenting and work. Using Critical Discursive Psychology (CDP), a qualitative methodology that frames discourse, language and action as socially situated, the paper sets out to understand the complexities of involved fatherhood. Using data from two distinct research projects that considered managing tensions around parenting and paid work, alongside the mov…
Natural versus Taught: Competing Discourses in Antenatal Breastfeeding Workshops
This article is an analysis of talk in breastfeeding workshops that are part of National Childbirth Trust antenatal classes. Using audio-recordings from breastfeeding workshops antenatal classes, the data were analysed using a qualitative, discursive methodology based in part on the premises outlined by Potter and Wetherell (1987) and Edwards and Potter (1992, 2001). The analysis demonstrates how there are two main discourses of breastfeeding con…
Agency, ‘good motherhood’ and ‘a load of mush’: Constructions of baby-led weaning in the press
Work, parenting and gender: The care-work negotiations of three couple relationships in the UK
Changes globally mean that there are now record numbers of mothers in paid employment and a reported prevalence of involved fathering. This poses challenges to mothers and fathers as they negotiate care–work practices within their relationships. Focusing on interviews with three heterosexual couples (taken from a wider UK qualitative project on working parents), the paper considers care–work negotiations of three couples, against a backdrop of de…
Concealment, communication and stigma: The perspectives of HIV-positive immigrant Black African men and their partners living in the United Kingdom
This study explored the perspectives of Black men, originally from East Africa, living in the United Kingdom and their partners on what it means to live with diagnosed HIV. This article reports on concealment of HIV-positive status as a strategy adopted by the affected participants to manage the flow of information about their HIV-positive status. Analysis of the data, collected using in-depth interviews involving 23 participants, found widesprea…
Supporting and challenging hate in an online discussion of a controversial refugee policy
Online hate is a serious problem affecting a range of minoritised people. Existing theories suggest that poor behaviour online is due to anonymity but fail to explore how such discussions unfold. This is where a discursive and rhetorical psychological approach is appropriate as it offers a micro-level analysis. In this research paper, a discursive/rhetorical approach is applied to an online debate about a controversial refugee policy in the UK co…
Trying similarity, doing difference: The Role of Interviewer Self-Disclosure in Interview Talk With Young People
Advocates of semi-structured interview techniques have often argued that rapport may be built, and power inequalities between interviewer and respondent counteracted, by strategic self-disclosure on the part of the interviewer. Strategies that use self-disclosure to construct similarity between interviewer and respondent rely on the presumption that the respondent will in fact interpret the interviewer's behaviour in this way. In this article we …
Natural versus Taught: Competing Discourses in Antenatal Breastfeeding Workshops
This article is an analysis of talk in breastfeeding workshops that are part of National Childbirth Trust antenatal classes. Using audio-recordings from breastfeeding workshops antenatal classes, the data were analysed using a qualitative, discursive methodology based in part on the premises outlined by Potter and Wetherell (1987) and Edwards and Potter (1992, 2001). The analysis demonstrates how there are two main discourses of breastfeeding con…
‘You don’t know what’s around the corner’: A qualitative study of professional footballers in England facing career transition
Career transition in sport is a rapidly growing area within the field of sport psychology. Interest in this area has been fuelled by the need for an increased number of professional athletes seeking support and assistance during transition from sport. However, whilst research in this field has focused in on a wide range of sports, specific research on retirement in professional football has been limited. Because of this it is argued that current …
Qualitative research in sports and exercise psychology: A timely comment
‘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
Over the past few decades, the number of women having their first babies over the age of 35 in most developed societies has steadily increased. Concerns have been raised over this trend amidst warnings of both the increased risk of fertility problems and health risks to mother and child. Despite this, research into the timing of pregnancy in the context of decreasing fertility has been somewhat neglected, with research typically framed in biomedi…
Masculinities, care and equality: Identity and Nurture in Men's Lives
"Masculinities, care and equality: identity and nurture in men's lives." Journal of Gender Studies, 22(4), pp. 455–456
Agency, ‘good motherhood’ and ‘a load of mush’: Constructions of baby-led weaning in the press
Pops in Pop Culture: Fatherhood, Masculinity, and the New Man
Concealment, communication and stigma: The perspectives of HIV-positive immigrant Black African men and their partners living in the United Kingdom
This study explored the perspectives of Black men, originally from East Africa, living in the United Kingdom and their partners on what it means to live with diagnosed HIV. This article reports on concealment of HIV-positive status as a strategy adopted by the affected participants to manage the flow of information about their HIV-positive status. Analysis of the data, collected using in-depth interviews involving 23 participants, found widesprea…
Work, parenting and gender: The care-work negotiations of three couple relationships in the UK
Changes globally mean that there are now record numbers of mothers in paid employment and a reported prevalence of involved fathering. This poses challenges to mothers and fathers as they negotiate care–work practices within their relationships. Focusing on interviews with three heterosexual couples (taken from a wider UK qualitative project on working parents), the paper considers care–work negotiations of three couples, against a backdrop of de…
Exploring the depths of gender, parenting and 'work: Critical Discursive Psychology and the 'Missing Voices' of Involved Fatherhood
This paper sets out to capture the missing voices of fathers in discussions around gender, parenting and work. Using Critical Discursive Psychology (CDP), a qualitative methodology that frames discourse, language and action as socially situated, the paper sets out to understand the complexities of involved fatherhood. Using data from two distinct research projects that considered managing tensions around parenting and paid work, alongside the mov…
Supporting and challenging hate in an online discussion of a controversial refugee policy
Online hate is a serious problem affecting a range of minoritised people. Existing theories suggest that poor behaviour online is due to anonymity but fail to explore how such discussions unfold. This is where a discursive and rhetorical psychological approach is appropriate as it offers a micro-level analysis. In this research paper, a discursive/rhetorical approach is applied to an online debate about a controversial refugee policy in the UK co…
Sociology (10 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Qualitative research (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Breastfeeding Practices and Influences (2 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (2 works)