Dr Rachel Stuart
Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Deviance

 

Organisation: APPG for Gypsies, Travellers and Roma, House of Commons Activity description: I was invited by Prof. Zoe James, Prof. Coretta Phillips (LSE) and Prof. Becky Taylor (UEA) to speak at the  All Party Parliamentary Group  to discuss the high rates of general victimisation of Gypsies and Travellers as well as high levels of hate victimisation against those communities and extremely low confidence in policing. Start date: 17 January 2024 End date: 17 January 2024

Organisation: Human Rights Watch Activity description: I have been working with Erin Kilbride, a researcher working for HRW who heads the LGBT rights program, investigating human rights violations against lesbian, bisexual and queer communities. Using the research from my PhD to situate webcamming as a form of digital labour we are in the process of producing a report concerning the working conditions of sex workers in webcam studios in Colombia. Department / Unit: human rights violations against sex worker, lesbian, bisexual and queer communities Organisation type: Civil rights activities Start date: 11 September 2023 - January 2025

Organisation: Rokhsana Fiaz OB Mayor of Newham Activity description: I was invited by Mayor Fiaz to several panel meetings in January and February of 2023 to discuss proposals to introduce a Public Space Protection Order (PSPO)  to discourage street level sex workers in the area of Romford Road,  Newham. These were followed by several zoom meetings where I presented on the findings of my research with the Doctors of the World and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. I argued that the introduction of the PSPO would criminalise sex workers further and in conjunction with activist groups the English Collective of Prostitutes and National Ugly Mugs was able to dissuade the Mayor from this as a way of tackling street level sex work. Organisation type: Legislative and political Start date: 12 January 2023

Organisation: Doctors of The World Activity description: I consulted on a participatory research project to identify street sex workers' health and welfare needs as they perceived them. This longitudinal qualitative study was conducted before and during the lockdown. Organisation type: Health services and related Start date: 1 October 2019