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WEBINAR: Improving how we understand and measure sexual wellbeing to capture human flourishing and social justice
May 24, 2023 at 2pm UK time (3pm CET, 9am EST)
Presentation by Dr Karen Lorimer
Co-Coordinator, HDCA Thematic Group on Gender and Sexuality
Dr Karen Lorimer (BA (Hons), MPhil, PhD, PGCAP, FHEA) is a Reader in Social Science and Health, in the School of Health & Life Sciences at Glasgow Caledonian University in Scotland. She is a sociologist, interested in sexual health, sexual wellbeing, capability approach and gender-based violence. She currently leads a British Academy/Leverhulme project on working class women and sexual violence.
Karen is an active member of the Gender Research and Equalities Network at GCU. She is a member of the Scottish Parliament Cross-Party Group on Sexual Health and Blood Borne Viruses, and is a member of the Scottish Government's National Monitoring and Research Group (NMRG).
She is a member of the Human Development and Capability Association (HDCA), and co-coordinates the thematic group 'Gender and Sexuality'.
Karen completed the PGCert in Academic Practice in 2008 and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She is alumni of both the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE), Young Academy of Scotland (2011-2016) and Global Young Academy (2013-2018), having been elected to Co-Chair in both organisations.