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Dr Nina Lockwood

Dr Nina Lockwood (BA, MRes, PhD, P/GDip)

Research Fellow in Primary and Community Health Services
E: N.Lockwood@bsms.ac.uk
Location: Watson Building, University of Brighton, Falmer, BN1 9PH

Areas of expertise: Mental health, counselling and psychotherapy, communication processes, systemics, psychosocial approaches to health perception and behaviour, mixed-methods research, and co-production.

Research areas: Mental health, counselling and psychotherapy, communication processes, stigma, health inequalities, co-production, community engagement, mixed-methods, and research and practice ethics.

Biography

Nina is a Research Fellow in Primary and Community Health Services, supporting the work of the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) in Kent, Surrey, and Sussex (KSS). Prior to joining BSMS, she was Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology, University of Sussex, working on the Leverhulme Trust-funded project, ‘Narratives of Nothing: Stories of the Great Undone’ (2020-2024). Nina completed her BA in Social Psychology (2002), MRes in Psychological Research Methods (2003), and ESRC-funded PhD in Psychology (2011) at the University of Sussex. Between 2003 and 2013, she contributed to a range of health and social psychology research projects within the School of Psychology, University of Sussex, while also teaching on a range of psychology and research methods modules. Nina then undertook at Lectureship in Psychology (2013-2015) at the University of Brighton before beginning postgraduate training in counselling and psychotherapy there, returning at this stage to Sussex, again as a contract researcher and tutor. Nina is also a practicing psychotherapist (2017-) and previously managed the Low-cost Counselling Service at New Road Psychotherapy Centre, Brighton (2019-2020).

Research

Nina favours both cross disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to her varied research interests which are very broadly connected by a foundational interest in embodiment and relationality, in particular the ways in which structural-level social factors and interpersonal dynamics relate to individual experiences of (mental) health. Stemming from these central concerns, particular areas of interest include: mental health; counselling and psychotherapy; health inequalities; (non-verbal, para-verbal, and sub-symbolic) communication within relational and healthcare settings; medically unexplained symptoms; self-harm; suicidality; (domestic) violence; stigma processes; social determinants of health; co-production; community engagement; mixed-methods; and research and practice ethics.

Teaching

Nina has over fifteen years teaching experience, having designed and delivered a broad range of psychology and research methods modules through lectures, seminars, and workshops. Illustrative examples of topics covered include: personality and individual differences; group processes; cognition, social cognition, and social worlds; ecopsychology; community psychology; qualitative and quantitative methods. She also has experiencing supervising final year undergraduate student participatory methods projects.

Nina is available to supervise undergraduate individual research projects, and particularly welcomes students interested in using qualitative and mixed-method approaches to explore topics broadly related to mental health.

Selected publications

Scott, S., & Lockwood, N. (2024). Non-identity accounts: Personal myths, cultural scripts and narrative alignment. The Sociological Review, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/00380261241236256

Lockwood, N., & Scott, S. (2023). Saying something with nothing: Refusal, avoidance and resistance in participant non-response. Methodological Innovations, 16(2), 215-225. https://doi.org/10.1177/20597991231179390

Scott, S., & Lockwood, N. (2023). Nested Narratives: Biographical Accounts of Unlived Experience Across Three Narrative Orders. Sociological Research Online, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/13607804231184353

Lockwood, N., de Visser, R.O., & Larsen, J. (2020). “Have a little less, feel a lot better”: Mixed-method evaluation of an alcohol intervention. Addictive Behaviors Reports, 12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.abrep.2020.100306

Lockwood, N., & Sparks, P. (2013), Characteristics associated with different types of climbing. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 43: 992-1001. https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.12063

Sparks, P., Harris, P.R. and Lockwood, N. (2004), Predictors and predictive effects of ambivalence. British Journal of Social Psychology, 43: 371-383. https://doi.org/10.1348/0144666042037980