At the moment, I am working on three areas:

1. Professional and powerful perpetrators of sexual violence and abuse, and institutional harm:

• Interested in the relationship between authority and coercion and specifically how 'high status/high public trust' professionals perpetrate sexual violence and abuse, and how professional tribunals and panels respond.  See this paper on doctor abuse, as an example.
• In November 2022, I was awarded a European Research Council Starting Grant (1.5m Euro, over 5 years) to further this work on professional perpetrators.  This project runs from Autumn 2023 to Autumn 2028.
• Currently writing up research on police perpetrated domestic and sexual abuse (outputs 2024).

2. Intersections of sexual violence and harm with popular culture, technology or faith:

• Currently writing up research into non-consensual 'rough sex' (outputs 2024).
• Through 2021 and into 2022, I worked on an Oak Foundation funded project looking at faith and coercive control.  
• Contributed to volumes on (i) coercive control and (ii) sex work in popular song.
• Currently developing work on AI and abuse (outputs 2024).

3. Sex industry

• Co-author of 2019 Home Office commissioned report on prostitution and sex work and recent book (2022).
• Lead a final year unit called' Sex Power and Consumption', which looks at the sex industry in the UK and globally.
• Academic adviser to the National Police Chiefs Council Sex Work Working Group since 2019.

Memberships:

• Associate Fellow of the Sexual Harms and Medical Encounters Group (SHaME) at Birkbeck University.
• Member of the Secrecy, Power & Ignorance research Network (SPIN), a collaboration of scholars focused on the power and politics of secrecy and ignorance.
• Member of the European Society of Criminology.
• Member of the European Consortium for Political Research.