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Maggie is Professor in Sociology/Criminology at the University of York and has a long history of conducting research on sex work and sex working with sex workers, sex work support organisations and communities; especially feminist , creative/visual and participatory research and the production of praxis - knowledge which addresses and intervenes in public policy.
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Rosie Campbell OBE
Rosie is based at Leicester University as a Researcher on the ‘Beyond the Gaze’, ESRC funded, 3 year UK wide, participatory project exploring the regulation, safety and working practices of internet based sex work. She is a sociologist who has been involved in sex work research for nearly two decades and her research interests include; the safety of sex workers and policy/legislative impact on safety/working conditions, hate crime and violence against sex workers, community responses to sex work, policing of and multi agency responses to sex work, the impact of digital and online technologies on sex work and models of support services for sex workers.
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Teela Sanders
Teela Sanders in a Professor of Criminology in the Department of Criminology, University of Leicester. Her research focus is on the intersections between gender, regulation and the sex industry, with a focus on exploring hidden economies.
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Nicola MaiNicola Mai is a sociologist, an ethnographer and a filmmaker working as Professor of Sociology and Migration Studies at Kingston University. His academic writing and films focus on the experiences and perspectives of migrants working in the globalised sex industry in order to live their lives.
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Deborah JonesDebbie Jones is a Lecturer in Criminology and Director for Undergraduate Studies, College of Law and Criminology, Swansea University. Prior to joining the College, Debbie had been a Police Officer with the Metropolitan Police for sixteen years where she specialised in the investigation of major crimes such as sexual offences, murder and child abuse.
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Kate ListerDr Kate Lister is a lecturer in the school of arts and communication at Leeds Trinity University. Kate primarily researches the history of sex work and curates the online research project, Whores of Yore, an interdisciplinary digital archive that aims to bring modern sex worker voice into the ethics of historical study. Kate has also published in the medical humanities, material culture, Victorian studies and Neo-Medievalism. She is also a journalist at the INews and won the Sexual Freedom Publicist of the Year Award in 2017.
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Nicola SmithDr Nicola Smith is Senior Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Birmingham. Nicola's research explores the intersections between feminist political economy and queer theory and, among other projects, she is currently completing a monograph on ‘Queer Sexual Economies’.
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Jane ScoularJane Scoular is a Professor in Law at the University of Strathclyde. Her work is a primary reference in the field of the legal regulation of commercial sex and her scholarship includes original theoretical expositions in books and internationally peer-refereed journals as well as international empirical studies, funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and Scottish Executive and the ESRC, re a comparative project on European prostitution regimes.
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Belinda Brooks-GordonIt has become increasingly difficult for policy makers and regulators to untangle the complex and inter-related nature of the sex industry and sexual offences. In addition, outcome measures of current interventions do little to improve our understanding of the process by which the subjects in this industry understand and interpret the sexual and social practices in which they are involved. One strand of my research addresses the socio-cultural, psychological, philosophical and human rights issues which surround sexual and gendered behaviour.
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Tracey SagarTracey Sagar is a Professor of Criminology in the College of Law and Criminology, Swansea University. Her work focuses on the regulation of sex work in the United Kingdom (UK) and in more recent years she has worked with Debbie Jones at Swansea University and external partners to provide an evidence base to further policy development and practice at the local and national level in Wales. Collaborative research has provided important data on street based sex work and violence in the city of Cardiff, it has located the service provision needs of off street sex workers in Cardiff, and it has critically examined the perceptions of Cardiff and Swansea residents on sex work and policy development.
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Raven BowenRaven is a PhD candidate who provides administration and research support to this Sex Work Research hub and sits on the board of Scot-PEP, a Scottish sex worker support organization. Raven has been involved in sex worker rights advocacy, anti-oppression organizing and community development in western Canada. Her work involved systemic advocacy, program development and building alliances across public, private and voluntary sectors, as well as developing capacity toward the social, economic and political inclusion of people who trade sex.
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