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After my undergraduate degree, I trained as a secondary English teacher and then as an adult literacy teacher. I worked for five years as a policy adviser for HEFCE before returning to study on an Economic and Social Research Council 1+3 studentship. I completed my PhD in summer 2014 and took on a number of teaching and research contracts, including:
- evaluating a trafficking and grooming project (Mulvihill and Williamson, 2014)
- co-authoring a 2015 report for Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary on ‘honour’ abuse and FGM (see also Mulvihill et al., 2019; Gangoli, Gill, Mulvihill and Hester, 2018)
- working on the Justice, Gender Based Violence and Inequalities project (2015-2018)
I secured my first lectureship here at Bristol in summer 2017 and the new BSc Criminology degree was launched that autumn.
I have worked on domestic, sexual and ‘honour’ abuse and written particularly on the sex industry and related policy. In 2019 I was co-author of a Home Office study looking at the nature and prevalence of sex work and prostitution in England and Wales. My research is both theoretical (see for example, Mulvihill, 2019; Mulvihill and Large, 2019; Mulvihill and Hester, 2021) and practice-oriented (see for example, Matolcsi, Mulvihill, Lilley-Walker and Hester, 2020; Mulvihill and Thorlby, 2020; Sanders, Vajzovic, Brooks-Gordon and Mulvihill, 2020) and I engage regularly with police, NGOs and policy-makers.
Through 2021 and into 2022, I have been working on an Oak Foundation funded project looking at faith and coercive control, which builds on earlier work on this theme (see Abrahams, Aghtaie and Mulvihill, 2019; Aghtaie, Mulvihill, Abrahams and Hester, 2020) I am currently working on a second publication looking at sexual harm and inequalities in popular music (see Mulvihill, 2021 and Mulvihill, forthcoming).
In my current teaching, I lead a first year mandatory Criminology unit called 'Representations of Crime and Harm', which explores the intersections of crime with visual, popular and media culture, and the implications for crime control. I also lead a final year unit called' Sex Power and Consumption', which looks at the sex industry in the UK and globally.
I am an editor of the Journal of Gender Based Violence.
In 2022, I had research leave and have initiated two new areas of work on sexual harm. First, I am in data collection and analysis phase for work on non-consensual 'rough sex'. Second, I am progressing a funding bid looking at 'professional' perpetrators of sexual violence and abuse, specifically against adults. See this paper on doctor abuse, as an example. I plan also to continue writing on the intersections of sex, harm and popular culture.
Structured keywords and research groupings
- SPS Centre for Gender and Violence Research
- Sex Work
- Prostitution
- Domestic Abuse
- Sexual Abuse
- Sexual Violence
- Honour Abuse
- Sexual Harm
- Sexual Exploitation
- Perpetrators
- Rough Sex
- Gender
- Power
- Crime
- Justice
- Faith
- Representation
- Popular Culture
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Unrestricted programme support on Understanding and Responding to Coercive Control
Hester, M., Matolcsi, A., Williamson, E., Magnusson, E., Walker, S., Mulvihill, N., Aghtaie, N. & Patsios, D.
1/10/20 → 30/09/22
Project: Research
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A Collaborative Approach to Raising Awareness About the Link Between Domestic Violence and Abuse and Animals Abuse
Mulvihill, N. & Wakeham, M.
10/08/20 → 27/11/20
Project: Research
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Prostitution and sex work: nature and prevalence in England and Wales
Hester, M., Mulvihill, N., Matolcsi, A., Lanau Sanchez, A. & Walker, S.
1/06/18 → 30/06/19
Project: Research
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UK victim-survivor experiences of intimate partner spiritual abuse and religious coercive control and implications for practice
Mulvihill, N., Aghtaie, N., Matolcsi, A. & Hester, M., 5 Jun 2022, (Accepted/In press) In: Criminology and Criminal Justice. 24 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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Professional authority and sexual coercion: A paradigmatic case study of doctor abuse
Mulvihill, N., 30 May 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Social Science and Medicine. 305, 8 p., 115093.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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The Current Landscape of Prostitution and Sex Work in England and Wales
Matolcsi, A., Mulvihill, N., Lilley-Walker, S-J., Lanau, A. & Hester, M., 30 May 2020, In: Sexuality and Culture. 25, 1, p. 39-57 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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