Jill Locke, PhD

Faculty Appointment(s)

Associate Professor

jjlocke@uw.edu

Jill Locke, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the UW Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, a licensed child psychologist and the former co-Director of the SMART Center from 2020-23. To date, her research has focused on the: 1) presentation of social impairment for autistic youth; 2) identification of best practices for autistic youth; and 3) understanding of successful implementation and sustainment of evidence-based practices (EBPs) for autistic youth in public school settings. Her current research focuses on understanding EBP use to support autistic youth in inclusive settings and developing and testing implementation strategies to support the adoption, implementation, and sustainment of EBPs in public schools.

Education

Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania, 2010-2012
PhD, UCLA, 2010
MA, UCLA, 2007
BA, UCLA, 2005

Department Affiliations

Centers/Programs

Recent Publications

Redesigning an Autism Evidence-Based Practice Adoption and Decision-Making Implementation Toolkit for Middle and High Schools.
(2024 Sep)
School Ment Health 16(3): 727-745
Locke JJ, Michael OG, Holt T, Drahota A, Dickson KS
Brief Report: Structured and Unstructured Social Opportunities for Autistic Students in Elementary Educational Settings.
(2025 Jun 11)
J Autism Dev Disord
Tagavi DM, Kim ES, Locke J
"Going above and beyond" for implementation in the education sector: extension and validation of the School Implementation Citizenship Behavior Scale (SICBS).
(2025 May 26)
Implement Sci Commun 6(1): 64
Corbin CM, Ehrhart MG, Brown EC, Locke J, Cook CR, Aarons GA, Lyon AR
Study protocol for testing the efficacy of the Helping Educational Leaders Mobilize Evidence (HELM) implementation strategy in elementary schools: a hybrid type 3 effectiveness-implementation randomized controlled trial.
(2025 Apr 24)
Implement Sci 20(1): 17
Locke J, Williams NJ, Sridhar A, Ehrhart MG, Dopp A, Thirion M, Espeland C, Riddle B, Schmitz K, Hatch K, Buehler L, Lyon AR
Identifying and Responding to Gaps in the Academic Research Pipeline: Findings From the International Society for Autism Research (INSAR) Early Career Committee.
(2025 Apr)
Autism Res 18(4): 717-724
Villalobos ME, Vivanti G, Jayanath S, Carpenter K, Shen MD, Shic F, Locke J
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