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Purcell, Carrie; Newton, Victoria Louise; Bloomer, Fiona and Hoggart, Lesley (2025). Foregrounding pain in self-managed early medication abortion: A qualitative study. BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health, 51 pp. 3–8.

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Bury, Louise; Ingham, Roger; Bright, Suzanna and Hoggart, Lesley (2025). Experiences of stigma amongst healthcare professionals working in abortion care: a global survey. BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health (Early access).

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Bright, Suzanna; Parnham, Emma; Blaylock, Rebecca; Bury, Louise; Okonofua, Friday; Mukwambo, Sunhurai; Nyakanda, Munyaradzi; Sebazungu, Theodomir; Akaba, Godwin and Hoggart, Lesley (2024). ‘Making abortion safe’: abortion and post-abortion care providers’ experiences of stigma in Rwanda, Zimbabwe, Sierra Leone and Nigeria. BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health (early access).

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Footman, Katy; Bury, Louise; Hoggart, Lesley and Parnham, Emma (2024). Exploring provider preference and provision of abortion methods and stigma: Secondary analysis of a United Kingdom provider survey. Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 56(1) pp. 50–59.

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Oluseye, Ayomide; Waterhouse, Philippa and Hoggart, Lesley (2024). ‘I have to pretend that I don’t care’: Stigma management among unmarried young mothers in South-Western Nigeria. Global Public Health, 19(1), article no. 2291699.

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Oluseye, Ayomide; Waterhouse, Philippa and Hoggart, Lesley (2024). “It is not the end of my life”: positive identity (re)constructions among young mothers in rural South-Western Nigeria. International Journal of Adolescence and Youth, 29(1), article no. 2301579.

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Blaylock, Rebecca; Lohr, Patricia A; Hoggart, Lesley and Lowe, Pam (2024). Patient experiences of undergoing abortion with and without an ultrasound scan in Britain. BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health, 50 pp. 178–184.

Okonofua, Friday; Ntoimo, Lorretta; Bury, Louise; Bright, Suzanna and Hoggart, Lesley (2024). "When you provide abortion services, you are looked upon as a bad guy": experiences of abortion stigma by health providers in Nigeria. Global health action, 17(1), article no. 2401849.

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Hoggart, Lesley; Purcell, Carrie; Bloomer, Fiona; Newton, Victoria and Oluseye, Ayomide (2023). Social connectedness and supported self-management of early medication abortion in the UK: experiences from the COVID-19 pandemic and learning for the future. Culture, Health & Sexuality, 26(7) pp. 855–870.

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Horan, C.; Zadeh, P. G.; Rennison, C.; Hoggart, L. and Kavanagh, J. (2022). A qualitative analysis of medical students’ attitudes to abortion education in UK medical schools. BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health, 48 pp. 205–209.

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Oluseye, Ayomide; Waterhouse, Philippa and Hoggart, Lesley (2022). “I really wanted to abort”: Desire for abortion, failed abortion and forced motherhood in South-Western Nigeria. Global Public Health, 17(8) pp. 1564–1577.

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Hoggart, Lesley and Berer, Marge (2022). Making the case for supported self-managed medical abortion as an option for the future. BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health, 48 pp. 146–148.

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Charitonos, Koula; Hoggart, Lesley; Jones, Rebecca; Keogh, Peter and Scott, Ellen (2021). Principles in practice. Co-creation of Learning in complex and challenging environments. Discussion Guide and Toolkit. The Open University and the ACCESS consortium.

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Hoggart, Lesley (2021). Difficult data: reflections on making knowledge claims in a turmoil of competing subjectivities, sensibilities and sensitivities. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 24(5) pp. 581–587.

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Bateson, Deborah J.; Lohr, Patricia A.; Norman, Wendy V.; Moreau, Caroline; Gemzell-Danielsson, Kristina; Blumenthal, Paul D.; Hoggart, Lesley; Li, Hang-Wun Raymond; Aiken, Abigail R. A. and Black, Kirsten I. (2020). [Editorial] The impact of COVID-19 on contraception and abortion care policy and practice: experiences from selected countries. BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health, 46 pp. 241–243.

Purcell, Carrie; Maxwell, Karen; Bloomer, Fiona; Rowlands, Sam and Hoggart, Lesley (2020). Toward normalising abortion: Findings from a qualitative secondary analysis study. Culture, Health and Sexuality, 22(12) pp. 1349–1364.

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Newton, Victoria; Dickson, Jane and Hoggart, Lesley (2020). Young women’s fertility knowledge: partial knowledge and implications for contraceptive risk-taking. BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health, 46(2)

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Maxwell, Karen J.; Hoggart, Lesley; Bloomer, Fiona; Rowlands, Sam and Purcell, Carrie (2020). Normalising abortion: what role can health professionals play? BMJ Sexual and Reproductive Health, 47(1) pp. 32–36.

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Berer, Marge and Hoggart, Lesley (2019). [Editorial] Progress toward Decriminalization of Abortion and Universal Access to Safe Abortions: National Trends and Strategies. Health and human rights, 21(2) pp. 79–83.

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Hoggart, Lesley (2019). Paula Rego: personal and political. The Lancet, 394(10199) p. 627.

Hoggart, Lesley (2019). Moral dilemmas and abortion decision-making: Lessons learnt from abortion research in England and Wales. Global Public Health, 14(1) pp. 1–8.

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Walker, Susan; Hoggart, Lesley; Newton, Victoria and Parker, Michael (2018). "I think maybe 10 years seems a bit long." Beliefs and attitudes of women who had never used intrauterine contraception. BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health, 44(2)

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Hoggart, Lesley; Walker, Susan; Newton, Victoria and Parker, Mike (2018). Provider-based barriers to provision of intrauterine contraception in general practice. BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health, 44(2) pp. 82–89.

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Berer, Marge and Hoggart, Lesley (2018). Editorial: Medical abortion pills have the potential to change everything about abortion. Contraception, 97(2) pp. 79–81.

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Newton, Victoria and Hoggart, Lesley (2018). Aide Memoire: 10 tips for discussing IUC. The Open University.

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Harper, Joyce; Boivin, Jacky; O'Neill, Helen C.; Brian, Kate; Dhingra, Jennifer; Dugdale, Grace; Edwards, Genevieve; Emmerson, Lucy; Grace, Bola; Hadley, Alison; Hamzic, Laura; Heathcote, Jenny; Hepburn, Jessica; Hoggart, Lesley; Kisby, Fiona; Mann, Sue; Norcross, Sarah; Regan, Lesley; Seenan, Susan; Stephenson, Judith; Walker, Harry and Balen, Adam (2017). The need to improve fertility awareness. Reproductive Biomedicine and Society Online, 4 pp. 18–20.

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Marecek, Jeanne; Macleod, Catriona and Hoggart, Lesley (2017). Abortion embedded and embodied in social relations: Challenges for feminist psychology. Feminism and Psychology, 27(2) pp. 133–143.

Hoggart, Lesley (2017). Collaboration or collusion? Involving research users in applied social research. Women's Studies International Forum, 61 pp. 100–107.

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Hoggart, Lesley (2017). Internalised abortion stigma: Young women’s strategies of resistance and rejection. Feminism and Psychology, 27(2) pp. 186–202.

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Marecek, Jeanne; Macleod, Catriona and Hoggart, Lesley (2017). Abortion in legal, social, and healthcare contexts. Feminism and Psychology, 27(1) pp. 4–14.

Hoggart, Lesley; Newton, Victoria and Bury, Louise (2017). ‘Repeat abortion’, a phrase to be avoided? Qualitative insights into labelling and stigma. Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care, 43(1) pp. 26–30.

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Walker, Susan H.; Newton, Victoria L.; Hoggart, Lesley and Parker, Mike J. (2016). Predictors of non-use of intrauterine contraception among women aged 18-49 years in a general practice setting in the UK. Open Access Journal of Contraception, 7 pp. 155–160.

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Newton, Victoria and Hoggart, Lesley (2015). Menstruation and contraception: social and cultural issues on young women's decision making. In: Contraception, 92(4) p. 403.

Hoggart, Lesley and Newton, Victoria (2015). UK abortion study: “I didn't think it would happen to me.” Young women's accounts of preabortion contraceptive use. In: Contraception, 92(4) p. 399.

Bury, Louise; Hoggart, Lesley and Newton, Victoria Louise (2015). Young women's experiences of unintended pregnancy and abortion: key findings. Open University Research Report; The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.

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Hoggart, Lesley; Newton, Victoria Louise and Bury, Louise (2015). "How could this happen to me?": Young women's experiences of unintended pregnancies: a qualitative study. Open University Research Report; The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.

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Newton, Victoria Louise and Hoggart, Lesley (2015). Hormonal contraception and regulation of menstruation: a study of young women's attitudes towards ‘having a period’. Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care, 41(3) pp. 210–215.

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Hoggart, Lesley (2015). Abortion Counselling in Britain: Understanding the Controversy. Sociology Compass, 9(5) pp. 365–378.

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Hoggart, Lesley; Newton, Victoria; Walker, Susan and Parker, Mike (2015). Barriers to intrauterine contraceptive uptake in General Practice: patient and practitioner perspectives - Findings from a mixed-method UK study. Anglia Ruskin University & The Open University.

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Dickson, Jane; Hoggart, Lesley and Newton, Victoria Louise (2014). Unanticipated bleeding with the etonogestrel implant: advice and therapeutic interventions. Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care, 40(3) pp. 158–160.

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Bury, Louise; Hoggart, Lesley and Newton, Victoria Louise (2014). "I thought i was protected" Abortion, contraceptive uptake and use among young women: a quantitative survey. Open University Research Report; The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.

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Hoggart, Lesley; Newton, Victoria Louise and Dickson, Jane (2013). 'I think it depends on the body, with mine it didn't work': explaining young women's contraceptive implant removal. Contraception, 88(5) pp. 636–640.

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Hoggart, Lesley and Newton, Victoria Louise (2013). Young women's experiences of side-effects from contraceptive implants: a challenge to bodily control. Reproductive Health Matters, 21(41) pp. 196–204.

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Hoggart, Lesley (2012). ‘I’m pregnant … what am I going to do?’ An examination of value judgements and moral frameworks in teenage pregnancy decision making. Health, Risk & Society, 14(6) pp. 533–549.

Hoggart, Lesley and Phillips, Joan (2011). Teenage pregnancies that end in abortion: what can they tell us about contraceptive risk-taking? Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care, 37(2) pp. 97–102.

Hoggart, Lesley; Phillips, Joan; Birch, Angela and Koffman, Ofra (2010). Young people in London: abortion and repeat abortion. Government Office For London, London.

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Ray, Kathryn; Hoggart, Lesley; Vegeris, Sandra and Taylor, Rebecca (2010). Better Off Working? Work, Poverty And Benefit Cycling. Joseph Rowntree Foundation, York.

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Ray, Kathryn; Hoggart, Lesley; Taylor, Rebecca; Vegeris, Sandra and Campbell-Barr, Verity (2009). Rewarding responsibility? Long-term unemployed men and the welfare-to-work agenda. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 27(6) pp. 975–990.

Walker, Robert; Hoggart, Lesley and Hamilton, Gayle (2008). Observing the implementation of a social experiment. Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 4(3) pp. 183–203.

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Walker, Robert; Hoggart, Lesley and Hamilton, Gayle (2008). Random assignment and informed consent: a case study of multiple perspectives. American Journal of Evaluation, 29(2) pp. 156–174.

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Hoggart, Lesley (2003). Feminist Campaigns for Birth Control and Abortion Rights in Britain. Studies in British History, 69. The Edwin Mellen Press.