Dr Emily Setty
I am a Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Surrey. I conduct research into young people’s sex and relationship cultures. I am interested in understanding how they are navigating and experiencing the challenges of contemporary life, including those that arise in the ‘digital era’. In my research, I listen to young people talk about their perspectives, and I consider it important to work directly with young people to develop youth-led and youth-centred solutions to the issues they face. I work with many frontline experts to explore how research findings can inform and shape education and interventions for young people, including those involved in this project.
You can find out more about me and my work work here: https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/emily-setty
Lucy Whitehouse at Fumble
Lucy is the founder and director of Fumble, a sex education charity in the UK. Fumble makes digital resources on sex, relationships, healthy bodies, puberty, and mental health. Fumble’s content is co-created with young people, for young people. It reaches 200,000 young people a year.
Alongside Fumble, Lucy is a digital journalist and content creator with over eight years of experience, and has worked with young people in the UK and abroad. Her previous work includes creating a campaign on digital resilience for YoungMinds, the national mental health charity for young people. It reached 1.25 million young people in the UK, and over 750,000 young people made positive, tangible behaviour changes in response to the campaign.
Dolly Padalia at The School of Sexuality Education
The School of Sexuality Education (formerly Sexplain) provides award winning inclusive relationships and sex education programmes to young people throughout the UK. They work with schools, youth groups, universities and provide teacher training.
Their programmes cover topics such as porn, consent, anatomy, intersectionality, teen digital intimacies, reproductive & sexual health and more. Their approach is sex positive, intersectional feminist, and non-binary.
So far, the School of Sexuality Education has delivered programmes to over 33,000 young people directly. Their programmes are informed by medical professionals, researchers, and young people to ensure an evidence-based approach. They aim to empower young people and those that work with them to confront taboos and social injustices in order to build a more equitable society.
They were consultants on the suite of resources created by the Department for Education for schools to use in their delivery of RSE, in line with the new statutory guidance on relationships and sex education in England.
The School of Sexuality Education has collaborated on a number of research projects around teen digital intimacies and online sexual harassment with Professor Ringrose (IoE, UCL), Dr Mendes (University of Leicester), Dr Regehr (University of Kent), and Dr Horeck (Anglia Ruskin University).
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