Lecturer in Criminology, Manchester Metropolitan University
Over the last five years, I have taught across a range of disciplines including Social work, Education, Sociology, Criminology and Childhood and Youth Studies. Over this time I have also researched a range of topics including, but not limited to, sexual health and wellbeing, sexual violence, safeguarding children, youth participation, sex and relationships education, and digital pedagogies.
Before joining Manchester Metropolitan University I worked and studied at the University of Sussex, in Brighton. Here I taught as an associate tutor and lecturer for Sociology, Social Work, and Childhood and Youth studies gaining experience teaching and supervising at Postgraduate and Undergraduate level. I also worked, and sat on the steering group, for the Centre for Innovation and Research In Childhood and Youth for three years supporting its development as a university-wide, and internationally recognised center for interdisciplinary and collaborative research.
Talking about sex is awkward, so how can teenagers 'just ask' for consent?
Oct 09, 2018 12:58 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
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