Associate Fellow, Centre For Research on Law, Gender & Sexuality, Kent Law School
As a visiting fellow, I give talks and organise formal and informal sessions to share support and ideas with students and staff.
Sessional Youth Worker, Mayfield and Easthouses Youth 2000 Project
Provided emotional support, informal education and an alternative role model at this youth club situated in a former mining village near Edinburgh.
Lecturer, Sexuality and Gender, School of Psychology and Sociology, Napier University
• Facilitated participatory discussion among small groups of honours students
• Topics included social/historical approaches, identity, intimacy, domestic life, pornography & sexual violence
Guest Lecturer, School of Social and Political Studies, University of Edinburgh
Guest Lecturer, various Sociology Honours courses
• Why is it so hard to love? A lecture for “Intimate Relations”. (December 2004 & October 2006)
• Globalisation from Below. A lecture for “Globalisation and Migration” (February 2005)
• Anarchism & Anti-Capitalism; Social Movement(s), Democratisation and Everyday Life. Lectures for “Social and Political Movements”. (January/February, 2006)
• Movement & the politics of everyday life (time, space & emotion); Anarchy's Gifts: Ethics, Organisation & Imagination. Lectures for “Social and Political Movements”. (February/March, 2007)
Tutor: 2nd Year Sociology and Social & Political Thought, University of Edinburgh
• Facilitated discussion among small groups of second-year students
• Sociology Topics included: sociology of risk, nationalism, environment, & intimate relationships
• Explored issues in social and political theory including: the state, utilitarianism, rights, morality & knowledge
• Theorists discussed included: Hobbes, Kropotkin, Mill, Durkheim, Smith, Hayek, Marx, Weber & Lyotard
Tutor, 1st Year Sociology, University of Edinburgh
• Facilitated discussion among small groups of first-year students
• Topics included: religion, the body, nationalism, identity, postmodernism, sexuality & gender
Specialist Lecturer, Sexual Health Team, Department of Children and Families, City of Edinburgh Council
Working in schools a drop in basis, I held three hour sessions with small groups of 15 to 16-year-old students. Through discussion and interactive games, we explored issues around negotiating safer hug, gender and power, STIs and condoms, and the importance of pleasure.