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The Centre for Sex, Gender and Sexualities
KEY PEOPLE There are over 50 Durham University staff involved in the Centre. A few key people are mentioned here to give a sense of the interdisciplinary nature of the Centre. They are taken from the faculties of Science, Arts & Humanities and Social Sciences & Health.
Professor Jo Phoenix – Director Faculty of Social Sciences & Health Prof Jo Phoenix holds a Chair in Criminology in the School of Applied Social Sciences. She completed a BSc in Sociology at Bristol University in 1988 and an MSc in Gender and Social Policy at Bristol University in 1991. In 1993, she was awarded a scholarship to undertake a PhD in the Department of Criminology, Keele University. Her first lectureship was at Middlesex University in 1997. In 2000, she was appointed as a Lecturer in the Department of Social and Policy Sciences at Bath University.
She took up her position at Durham University in 2007 and was Chair, Board of Examiners before becoming Deputy Head of Faculty, Social Sciences and Health in 2009 and Dean for Queen's Campus in 2011. She is also a fellow of the Wolfson Research Institute. Research interests • Gender and Crime • Gender and Victimisation • Sex and Sexual Regulation • Prostitution • Comparative Prostitution Policy Research • Human Trafficking • Sexual Exploitation of Young People • Youth Penalty • Youth Justice • Understanding the ways that 'sex', as a social phenomena, has fundamentally changed in the 21st century • Understanding the experiences of vulnerable and marginalised groups in the context of social policy and criminal justice.
Professor Jo Phoenix on... ‘Prostitution’ “Involvement in prostitution is made possible for some women because, put simply, such involvement comes to ‘make sense’ because of the social and material conditions in which they live. A specific ‘prostitute identity’ is composed of three contingent and contradictory pairs of identifications: prostitutes as workers and as commodified bodies; prostitutes as businesswomen and as loving partners; and prostitutes as victims and as survivors.”