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48
Citations
8866
World Ranking
3170
National Ranking
536

Research.com Recognitions

  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Louise Locock is affiliated with the University of Aberdeen in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to research within Medicine and Health Professions. Their scholarly work spans various subfields, including General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Sociology and Political Science, Oncology, and Emergency Medical Services.

The main topics addressed in their research include Mental Health and Patient Involvement, Global Health Workforce Issues, Health Policy Implementation Science, Primary Care and Health Outcomes, Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare, Mobile Health and mHealth Applications, and Medication Adherence and Compliance.

Recent publications by Louise Locock demonstrate a focus on patient experience and healthcare service improvement. Notable recent papers are:

  • How do frontline staff use patient experience data for service improvement? Findings from an ethnographic case study evaluation (2020), Journal of Health Services Research & Policy
  • Polypharmacy during pregnancy and associated risk factors: a retrospective analysis of 577 medication exposures among 1.5 million pregnancies in the UK, 2000-2019 (2023), BMC Medicine
  • Negotiation of collective and individual candidacy for long Covid healthcare in the early phases of the Covid-19 pandemic: Validated, diverted and rejected candidacy (2022), SSM - Qualitative Research in Health
  • Reducing bias in trials due to reactions to measurement: experts produced recommendations informed by evidence (2021), Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
  • Wild data: how front-line hospital staff make sense of patients' experiences (2020), Sociology of Health & Illness

Louise Locock frequently collaborates with a core group of coauthors, including Zoë Skea, Andrew Farmer, Sue Ziébland, Andrew S. Maclaren, and Rosemary Hollick. These collaborations reflect sustained partnerships within the fields related to health services research and patient care.

Their research has been published multiple times in prominent venues such as Health Expectations, BMC Medicine, SSM - Qualitative Research in Health, Sociology of Health & Illness, and the Journal of Health Services Research & Policy.

In addition to journal articles, Louise Locock has contributed to book publications, including a work titled Co-Producing and Co-Designing published by Cambridge University Press in 2022.

Louise Locock is recognized as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • Patients and staff as codesigners of healthcare services

    Glenn Robert;Jocelyn Cornwell;Louise Locock;Arnie Purushotham

  • Collecting data on patient experience is not enough: they must be used to improve care

    Angela Coulter;Louise Locock;Sue Ziebland;Joe Calabrese

  • Knowledge to action? Evidence-based health care in context

    Sue Dopson;Louise Fitzgerald

  • No magic targets! Changing clinical practice to become more evidence based.

    Sue Dopson;Louise FitzGerald;Ewan Ferlie;John Gabbay

  • Understanding the role of opinion leaders in improving clinical effectiveness

    Louise Locock;Sue Dopson;David Chambers;John Gabbay

  • An open letter to The BMJ editors on qualitative research

    Trisha Greenhalgh;Ellen Annandale;Richard Ashcroft;James Barlow

  • Evidence-Based Medicine and the Implementation Gap

    Sue Dopson;Louise Locock;John Gabbay;Ewan Ferlie

  • Reclaiming and redefining the Fundamentals of Care: Nursing's response to meeting patients' basic human needs

    Alison Kitson;Tiffany Conroy;Kerry Kuluski;Louise Locock

  • Is it worth it? Patient and public views on the impact of their involvement in health research and its assessment: a UK-based qualitative interview study.

    Joanna C Crocker;Anne-Marie Boylan;Anne-Marie Boylan;Jennifer Bostock;Louise Locock

  • Healthcare redesign: meaning, origins and application

    L Locock

  • Biographical disruption, abruption and repair in the context of Motor Neurone Disease

    Louise Locock;Sue Ziebland;Carol Dumelow

  • 'just a bystander'? Men's place in the process of fetal screening and diagnosis

    Louise Locock;Jo Alexander

  • “About sixty per cent I want to do it” : Health researchers’ attitudes to, and experiences of, patient and public involvement (PPI)—A qualitative interview study

    Anne-Marie Boylan;Louise Locock;Richard Thomson;Sophie Staniszewska

  • Testing accelerated experience-based co-design: a qualitative study of using a national archive of patient experience narrative interviews to promote rapid patient-centred service improvement

    Louise Locock;Glenn Robert;Annette Boaz;Sonia Vougioukalou

  • Personal benefit, or benefiting others? Deciding whether to take part in clinical trials.

    Louise Locock;Lorraine Smith

  • The impact of self-harm by young people on parents and families: a qualitative study.

    Anne E Ferrey;Nicholas D Hughes;Sue Simkin;Louise Locock

  • Personal identity and the role of ‘carer’ among relatives and friends of people with multiple sclerosis

    Nic Hughes;Louise Locock;Sue Ziebland

  • 'All in the same boat'? Patient and carer attitudes to peer support and social comparison in Motor Neurone Disease (MND).

    Louise Locock;Janice B. Brown

  • The power of symbolic capital in patient and public involvement in health research

    Louise Locock;Anne-Marie Boylan;Rosamund Snow;Sophie Staniszewska

  • “Making it All Normal”: The Role of the Internet in Problematic Pregnancy

    Pam K. Lowe;John Powell;Frances Griffiths;Margaret Thorogood

  • Drawing Straight Lines along Blurred Boundaries: Qualitative Research, Patient and Public Involvement in Medical Research, Co-Production and Co-Design.

    Louise Locock;Annette Boaz;Annette Boaz

  • Implementation of evidence-based medicine: evaluation of the Promoting Action on Clinical Effectiveness programme

    Sue Dopson;Louise Locock;David Chambers;John Gabbay

  • Using a national archive of patient experience narratives to promote local patient-centered quality improvement: an ethnographic process evaluation of 'accelerated' experience-based co-design.

    Louise Locock;Glenn Robert;Annette Boaz;Sonia Vougioukalou

Frequent Co-Authors

Sue Ziebland
Sue Ziebland University of Oxford
Glenn Robert
Glenn Robert King's College London
Sue Dopson
Sue Dopson University of Oxford
Louise Fitzgerald
Louise Fitzgerald University of Oxford
Sally Wyke
Sally Wyke University of Glasgow
Peter R. Harris
Peter R. Harris University of Sussex
David P. French
David P. French University of Manchester
Steve Woolgar
Steve Woolgar University of Oxford
Katherine L. Tucker
Katherine L. Tucker University of Massachusetts Lowell
Stephen Sutton
Stephen Sutton University of Cambridge

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