Abigail LockeABIGAIL LOCKE is a Professor of Critical Social and Health Psychology and the current Head of School at Keele University in the United Kingdom. Abigail gained her Undergraduate degree in Human Psychology from Loughborough University, followed y a PGCE in Primary Education (specialising in Educational Psychology) from the University of Leicester, before returning to Loughborough to do her doctoral work in the internationally renowned Discourse and Rhetoric Group (DARG). Her research interests are around maternal and paternal identities where she has explored issues such as gender and caregiving, infant feeding discourses, parenting identities and social media, as well on writing about qualitative methods more generally. Abigail is an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society (BPS) and has acted as Chair of the Psychology of Women and Equalities Section and Social Psychology Sections of the BPS, as well as having been Deputy-Chair of the BPS Research Board and Ethics Committees. Internationally, she has strong links with the International Society of Critical Health Psychology currently sitting on its Executive Committee and previously serving as Secretary. Abigail is a qualitative methods specialist and, as well as previously sitting on the committee of the BPS Qualitative Methods in Psychology (QMiP) section, she is a founding and Executive Committee member of the Association for European Qualitative Researchers in Psychology (EQUiP). She is currently a Co-Editor in Chief of the Journal of Health Psychology (with R. Annunziato and G.Treharne), as well as Associate Editor of Health Psychology Behavioural Medicine and sits on the editorial boards of Gender & Society, Feminism & Psychology and the British Journal of Social Psychology. Abigail lives in Yorkshire, UK with her partner and two daughters. Read More Read Less