Investigating Young People?s Sexual Cultures
A One-Day Symposium
A British Academy Funded Project
Co-ordinated by Dr Feona Attwood (Sheffield
Hallam) and Dr Clarissa Smith (Sunderland)
Monday 18 January 2010 10am ? 6pm
University of London Union, 1 Malet Street, London WC1E 7HY
Sessions and Speakers:
Young People and Sexual Health
Petra Boynton (UCL, London) Roger Ingham (University of Southampton), Clare
Bale (University of Sheffield)
Investigating Young People?s Sexual Cultures: Methods and Ethics
Sara Bragg (Open University), Mary Jane Kehily
(Open University), Mark Limmer (Teenage
Pregnancy Co-ordinator, Rochdale/Lancaster University)
Young People and Sexualized Culture
Rosalind Gill (Open University), Jessica
Ringrose (Institute of Education), Emma Renold (Cardiff University)
The symposium will examine ways of developing
research on young people?s sexual cultures,
building on existing work on young people, sex
and relationships within the context of a
?sexualized? and media-saturated culture. Sex
education and media literacy emerge as important
factors in the way young people develop sexual
knowledge and form mature sexual identities.
Academic work and governmental policies
highlight both as crucial for the development of
cultural citizenship and for personal, social
and health education, and for participation in
society. Media literacy and sex education both
remain undeveloped in the UK, and the study of
young people?s engagements with sexual issues
remains a relatively unexplored area. The
symposium will explore the theoretical, ethical
and methodological issues at stake in this area
of work, reviewing existing knowledge and
discussing the possibilities for innovative
research across disciplinary and professional boundaries.
Attendance is free but places are limited so please confirm your place with
Clarissa Smith via email:
<mailto:(clarissa.smith /at/ sunderland.ac.uk)>(clarissa.smith /at/ sunderland.ac.uk)
before 19 December 2009.
Dr Clarissa Smith
Programme Leader, MAs in Film, Media & Cultural Studies
<mailto:(clarissa.smith /at/ sunderland.ac.uk)>(clarissa.smith /at/ sunderland.ac.uk)
