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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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Earle, Sarah; Ledger, Susan; Newton, Victoria; Rouse, Lorna and Tilley, Elizabeth (2024). Menstruation and learning disability across the life course: Using a two‐part scoping exercise to co‐produce research priorities. British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 52(3) pp. 524–537.

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Newton, Victoria Louise (2024). ‘It can actually make you infertile’: Reproductive bodylore and vernacular knowledge about contraception. In: Contemporary Legend, 2(4).

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Brewis, Joanna; Newton, Victoria and Schnitzler, Katy (2024). Early pregnancy endings and the workplace knowledge exchange event. YouTube.

Middlemiss, Aimee; Boncori, Ilaria; Brewis, Joanna; Davies, Julie and Newton, Victoria (2024). Employment leave for early pregnancy endings: a biopolitical reproductive governance analysis in England and Wales. Gender, Work and Organization, 31(1) pp. 75–91.

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Newton, Victoria Louise (2024). Vernacular Knowledge about Contraception: an interdisciplinary perspective on myths, misperceptions and lived-experience. BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health, 50 pp. 310–311.

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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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Newton, Victoria (2021). [Book Review] Ritual & Myths in Nursing: A Social History. Folklore, 132(1) pp. 104–105.

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Newton, Victoria (2021). Book Review: The Kiss of Death: Contagion, Contamination and Folklore. Folklore, 132(3) pp. 330–331.

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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Newton, Victoria (2019). [Book Review] Diagnosing Folklore: Perspectives on Disability, Health and Trauma by T. Blank and A. Jackson, 2015, University Press of Mississippi. Folklore, 130(3) pp. 323–325.

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

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Newton, Victoria Louise and Fulop, Naomi (2017). Evaluation Report: HEE North Central and East London & NIHR CLAHRC North Thames Clinical Nurse/Midwife/AHP (NMAHP) Academic Fellowship Scheme. NIHR CLAHRC North Thames.

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Newton, Victoria Louise (2017). ‘It's good to be able to talk’: An exploration of the complexities of participant and researcher relationships when conducting sensitive research. Women’s Studies International Forum, 61 pp. 93–99.

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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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Newton, Victoria Louise and Fulop, Naomi (2017). Evaluation of the HEE North Central and East London & NIHR CLAHRC North Thames Clinical Nurse/Midwife/AHP (NMAHP) Academic Fellowship Scheme EXECUTIVE SUMMARY. NIHR CLAHRC North Thames.

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Newton, Victoria (2017). Evaluation of the HEE North Central and East London & NIHR CLAHRC North Thames Clinical Nurse/Midwife/AHP (NMAHP) Academic Fellowship Scheme: Key Findings. NIHR CLAHRC North Thames.

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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 Louise (2016). Everyday Discourses of Menstruation: Cultural and Social Perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan.

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 Murphy, Sam (2015). Women's experiences of termination for fetal abnormality in a United Kingdom hospital setting: a systematic review protocol. JBI Database of Systematic Reviews and Implementation Reports, 13(9) pp. 159–167.

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; 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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West, Elizabeth; Newton, Victoria Louise and Barton-Breck, Andy (2013). Time frames and self-hurting: that was then, this is now. Health, Risk & Society, 15(6-7) pp. 580–595.

Newton, Victoria (2012). Status passage, stigma and menstrual management: 'Starting' and 'being on'. Social Theory & Health, 10(4) pp. 392–407.

Newton, Victoria Louise (2010). Folklore and advertising: an examination of traditional themes and motifs in British twenty-first-century television advertising campaigns. Folk Life: Journal of Ethnological Studies, 48(1) pp. 48–62.