Dr Rachel Locke 

Senior Research Officer 

Education, Health and Social Care 

Email:

rachel.locke@winchester.ac.uk 

Phone:

01962 827061 

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Expertise

Rachel is an experienced researcher carrying out evaluations of health and social care. She successfully bids for external funding on behalf of the Faculty of Education, Health and Social Care as well as designs and carries out fieldwork with Faculty staff. She has undertaken both quantitative and qualitative data analysis and report writing. Rachel has presented papers at conferences and published on a variety of research projects. Recently Rachel has started teaching on the quantitiative methods in Social Research module of the Doctor of Education (EdD).

Publications

Locke R, Leach C, Kitsell F and Griffith J (2011) The impact on the workload of the Ward Manager with the introduction of administrative assistants Journal of Nursing Management 19, pp. 177–185

Sunley R and Locke R (2010) Exploring UK secondary teachers’ professional values: an overview of the literature since 2000 Educational Research 52(4) pp. 409-425

Bayliss V, Locke R & Salter E, (2009) Continence Care Pathways WileyBlackwell, Oxford

Payler J & Locke R (2009) Early Years Professional Status Consultation for Dorset County Council [Report], the University of Winchester

Humphrey C & Locke R (2008) NHS National Clinical Assessment Service (NCAS) looking at assessment and remediation for physicians [Report] King's College, London

Sausman C & Locke R (2007) The Changing Role of the British Senior Civil Service: Challenge and Reform in Page E C; Wright V [eds] From the Active to the Enabling State: the changing role of top officials in European Nations Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

Drennan V et al (2007) Entrepreneurial nurses and midwives in the United Kingdom: an integrative review Journal of Advanced Nursing 60[5]

Weiss M, Locke R & Graham A (2007) Users’ views of new providers of emergency contraception: A qualitative study. Primary Health Care Primary Health Care Research & Development 8

Hughes J, Locke R & Humphrey C (2007) External audit for GMC about decision-making procedures in handling complaints about doctors King's College, London

Drennan V et al (2006) The Contribution of Nurse, Midwife and HV entrepreneurs to patient choice. A Scoping Exercise. [Report] NHS SDO R&D

Research Interests

Research interests include the impact of policy from the point of view of users and different professional groups in health and social care and more recently in education. One particular study investigated strategies to reduce teenage drinking at a local level and another (working with NHS Education South Central (NESC)) evaluated the impact of the Ward Manager Assistant post in pilot hospital ward sites.  Rachel has developed a growing interest in the field of medical education, Rachel is currently working on a project for the Revalidation Support Team (RST) project, Department of Health.  She successfully led this bid to undertake research to explore the identification of poor performance in doctors in NHS organisations.  The literature review, survey of a purposive sample of UK NHS trusts and interviews with key informants is being undertaken with honorary research fellows, Dr Camilla Leach, Dr Sam Scallan, and Professor Mark Richenbach

Funding Awards and Professional Membership

• British Educational Research Association