Digital Families: Gendered relationships in online space
(2022)
Journal Article
Locke, A., Capdevila, R., & Lazard, L. (2022). Digital Families: Gendered relationships in online space. Feminism and Psychology, 32(3), 310-317. https://doi.org/10.1177/09593535221107842
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#mothersday: Constructions of motherhood and femininity in social media posts (2022)
Journal Article
Capdevila, R., Dann, C., Lazard, L., Roper, S., & Locke, A. (2022). #mothersday: Constructions of motherhood and femininity in social media posts. Feminism and Psychology, 32(3), 336-356. https://doi.org/10.1177/09593535221107832Images and representations of parenting, and particularly mothering, have become commonplace on social media platforms over the past decade. These displays, however, take place in the context of popular contemporary discourses around gender and paren... Read More about #mothersday: Constructions of motherhood and femininity in social media posts.
Putting the ‘teachable moment’ in context: A view from critical health psychology (2022)
Journal Article
Locke, A. (2022). Putting the ‘teachable moment’ in context: A view from critical health psychology. Journal of Health Psychology, 28(1), 3-16. https://doi.org/10.1177/13591053221101750The concept of ‘Teachable Moment’ (TM) is an increasingly used term within mainstream health psychology in relation to interventions and health behaviour change. It refers to a naturally occurring health event where individuals may be motivated to ch... Read More about Putting the ‘teachable moment’ in context: A view from critical health psychology.
The Study of Identity in Health Psychology (2021)
Book Chapter
Locke, A., & Montague, J. (2021). The Study of Identity in Health Psychology. In The Cambridge Handbook of Identity (508-528). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108755146.027In this chapter we consider the ways in which the study of identities has been approached in Critical Health Psychology. Critical approaches to health psychology move away from individualistic concerns to consider the ways in which wider social-psych... Read More about The Study of Identity in Health Psychology.
Jai Mackenzie, Language, gender and parenthood online: Negotiating motherhood in Mumsnet talk (2021)
Journal Article
Locke, A. (2021). Jai Mackenzie, Language, gender and parenthood online: Negotiating motherhood in Mumsnet talk. Feminism and Psychology, 32(1), https://doi.org/10.1177/09593535211011304
Applying critical discursive psychology to health psychology research: a practical guide (2020)
Journal Article
Locke, A., & Budds, K. (2020). Applying critical discursive psychology to health psychology research: a practical guide. Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine, 8(1), 234 -247. https://doi.org/10.1080/21642850.2020.1792307This paper outlines a qualitative methodological approach called Critical Discursive Psychology (CDP), considering its applicability to health psychology research. As applied to health psychology, the growth of discursive methodologies within the dis... Read More about Applying critical discursive psychology to health psychology research: a practical guide.
Sharenting: Pride, affect and the day‐to‐day politics of digital mothering (2019)
Journal Article
Lazard, L., Capdevila, R., Dann, C., Locke, A., & Roper, S. (2019). Sharenting: Pride, affect and the day‐to‐day politics of digital mothering. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 13(4), Article ARTN e12443. https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12443The coming together of parenting and routine posting on social networking sites has become a visible and recognisable theme, and the term “sharenting” has found a place in everyday talk to describe some forms of parental digital sharing practices. Ho... Read More about Sharenting: Pride, affect and the day‐to‐day politics of digital mothering.
A meta-methodology to enhance pluralist qualitative research: One man’s use of socio-sexual media and midlife adjustment to HIV (2018)
Journal Article
Madill, A., Flowers, P., Frost, N., & Locke, A. (2018). A meta-methodology to enhance pluralist qualitative research: One man’s use of socio-sexual media and midlife adjustment to HIV. Psychology & Health, 33(10), 1209-1228. https://doi.org/10.1080/08870446.2018.1475670Our aim is to offer and illustrate a novel meta-methodology to enhance the rigour of method selection and understanding of results in pluralist qualitative research (PQR).
Empowering women through the positive birth movement (2018)
Journal Article
Hallam, J., Howard, C., Locke, A., & Thomas, M. (2019). Empowering women through the positive birth movement. Journal of Gender Studies, 28(3), 330-341. https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2018.1469972Childbirth has been positioned as a life changing event that has profound long-term psychological effects upon women. This paper adopts a community psychology approach to explore the role that the Positive Birth Movement (PBM) may have in tackling ne... Read More about Empowering women through the positive birth movement.
Social media platforms as complex and contradictory spaces for feminisms: Visibility, opportunity, power, resistance and activism (2018)
Journal Article
Locke, A., Lawthom, R., & Lyons, A. (2018). Social media platforms as complex and contradictory spaces for feminisms: Visibility, opportunity, power, resistance and activism. Feminism and Psychology, 28(1), 3-10. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959353517753973