Abigail Locke

I am a Professor in Critical Social and Health Psychology and Head of School at Keele University . I joined the University in October 2020 from University of Bradford where I’d been both Associate Dean for Research & Knowledge Transfer and Head of Psychology. I have previous held lectureships at the University of Loughborough, Derby and Coventry, and Readership at University of Huddersfield. I owe my education to the East Midlands where I obtained my degree in Psychology (1993, Loughborough University), PGCE (1995, University of Leicester) and PhD in Social Psychology (2001, Loughborough University). My PhD specialised in discursive psychology and I was lucky to be part of the Discourse and Rhetoric Group (DARG) there. I have been asked to give guest lectures and workshops on discourse analysis at a variety of universities and international conferences. I have strong associations with national and international bodies. Nationally, with the British Psychological Society, I have chaired the Social Psychology and the Women and Equalities Sections, and am a past Deputy-Chair of the BPS Research Board and Ethics Committee, as well as having previously been a Trustee. Internationally, I am an Executive Committee and Founding member of the Association of European Qualitative Researchers in Psychology https://www.equipsy.org/, sit on the Executive Committee of the International Society for Critical Health Psychology https://ischp.net and am on the international committee of the AmericanPsychological Association’s (APA) Society for Qualitative Inquiry in Psychology http://sqip.org You can find me at Twitter LinkedIn