All Outputs (13)

"I'll tell you what I want, what I really, really want" The health and wellbeing needs of male sex workers (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Background:
Male sex workers continue to be underrepresented in both the academic literature and across health and service care provision. Previous attempts to address health and wellbeing needs are limited to a sexual health focus or are based on t... Read More about "I'll tell you what I want, what I really, really want" The health and wellbeing needs of male sex workers.

Story completion, methodological innovation, epistemology and social change: Matthew Wood in conversation with Celia Kitzinger (2018)
Journal Article

Looking heteronormatively good! Combining story completion with Bitstrips to explore understandings of sexuality and appearance (2018)
Journal Article

© 2019, © 2019 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. This study sought to develop knowledge about understandings of sexuality and appearance by using a story completion task combined with an innovative visual methodology. Fifty-four (mainly female) particip... Read More about Looking heteronormatively good! Combining story completion with Bitstrips to explore understandings of sexuality and appearance.

Onward gay Christian soldiers? Exploring the positioning of lesbian, gay and bisexual Christians in the ‘battle’ against religious homophobia (2016)
Journal Article

This study explored the positions that gay Christians adopt in navigating both a Christian and a lesbian, gay or bisexual (LGB) identity, particularly in the context of religious homophobia and hostility toward homosexuality. Twenty-one LGB Christian... Read More about Onward gay Christian soldiers? Exploring the positioning of lesbian, gay and bisexual Christians in the ‘battle’ against religious homophobia.

Research in the wild via performance: Challenges, ethics and opportunities
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Publication rights licensed to ACM. Performance can be combined with interactive, online and immersive video as a way of conducting research in the wild. This affords the researcher opportunities to engage with participants in a way that can be surpr... Read More about Research in the wild via performance: Challenges, ethics and opportunities.

"Protection on that erection?": Discourses of accountability & compromising participation in digital sexual health
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This paper analyses sexual health workers' 'talk' around their introduction of a digital platform to enhance a regionally managed condom distribution scheme for young people. In examining the discursive resources workers used in framing the sexual he... Read More about "Protection on that erection?": Discourses of accountability & compromising participation in digital sexual health.

Design for sexual wellbeing in HCI
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This workshop focuses on the design of digital interactive technology for promoting sexual wellbeing as a fundamental human rights issue and social justice concern in the field of Human Computer Interaction (HCI). Sexuality related topics have garner... Read More about Design for sexual wellbeing in HCI.

Talk about sex: Designing games to acilitate healthy discussions around sex
Presentation / Conference Contribution

We report on the design of Talk About Sex, a multiplayer mobile phone game designed for young people to facilitate and enable discussions around the subjects of sex, intimacy and relationships. We discuss how we used 'sex as a framing for design', co... Read More about Talk about sex: Designing games to acilitate healthy discussions around sex.

Troubling vulnerability: Designing with LGBT young people's ambivalence towards hate crime reporting
Presentation / Conference Contribution

HCI is increasingly working with 'vulnerable' people, yet there is a danger that the label of vulnerability can alienate and stigmatize the people such work aims to support. We report our study investigating the application of interaction design to i... Read More about Troubling vulnerability: Designing with LGBT young people's ambivalence towards hate crime reporting.

Situated dissemination through an HCI workplace
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Researchers working in domains such as Research through Design and Feminist HCI have been questioning "dissemination practices" and their impact on our capacity to produce reflexive accounts of research in publications. This paper examines academic d... Read More about Situated dissemination through an HCI workplace.

Sex talk: Designing for sexual health with adolescents
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In this paper, we describe a user-centred design process, where we engaged with 58 adolescents over an 18-month period to design and evaluate a multiplayer mobile game which prompts peer-led interactions around sex and sexuality. Engagement with our... Read More about Sex talk: Designing for sexual health with adolescents.

"They're just tixel pits, man": Disputing the 'reality' of virtual reality pornography through the story completion method
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Pornography is a substantial part of humans' everyday interaction with computers, yet to date the topic has been underconsidered by HCI. Here, we examine some of the common cultural ideals non-experts constructed of a 'new' pornographic experience -... Read More about "They're just tixel pits, man": Disputing the 'reality' of virtual reality pornography through the story completion method.

Silent suffering: The unmet sexual health needs of male sex workers
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Introduction:
The health and wellbeing need of Male Sex Workers (MSWs) are largely informed by misconceptions of sexual labour that drive physical health interventions to focus on perceived needs around sexual health and wellbeing. Findings from th... Read More about Silent suffering: The unmet sexual health needs of male sex workers.