Selected Publications

• France E F, Locock L, Hunt K, Ziebland S, Field K, and Wyke S (2011) Imagined futures: how experiential knowledge of disability affects parents' decision making about foetal abnormality. Health Expect.

• Locock L and Smith L (2011) Personal experiences of taking part in clinical trials - A qualitative study. Patient Educ Couns.

• Locock Louise and Smith Lorraine (2011) Personal benefit, or benefiting others? Deciding whether to take part in clinical trials. Clin Trials, 8(1):85-93.

• Locock Louise and Brown Janice B (2010) 'All in the same boat'? Patient and carer attitudes to peer support and social comparison in Motor Neurone Disease (MND). Soc Sci Med, 71(8):1498-505.

• Locock Louise, Field Kate, McPherson Ann, and Boyd Patricia A (2010) Women's accounts of the physical sensation of chorionic villus sampling and amniocentesis: expectations and experience. Midwifery, 26(1):64-75.

Louise Locock

Louise Locock is Deputy Research Director in the DIPEx Health Experiences Research Group and a University Research Lecturer.

Louise's research interests include qualitative research into personal experiences of health and illness, especially in the field of pregnancy and antenatal screening, motor neurone disease, and taking part in medical research. From April 2009 she has been working on a joint project between the Health Experiences Research Group and the Oxford Biomedical Research Centre.

Louise's research areas include Personal Experiences Of Health And Illness; Pregnancy And Antenatal Screening; Motor Neurone Disease; Participation In Clinical Research; Qualitative Research.