11.40 - 12.10
Speaker: Marieke van Doorninck
Affiliation: Dutch
Institute for Prostitution Issues
Presentation Title: Keeping
the Balance: The Dutch Experience of 20 Years Streetwalking Zones
Biography
Marieke van Doorninck is a historian and works as a researcher, policy consultant and spokesperson at the Mr A de Graaf Foundation, the Dutch institute for prostitution issues. This is the national centre for research, policy development and information on prostitution and related issues. The foundations' central objective is to diminish the (social) problems connected to prostitution. One of the principal items is to improve the juridical and social status of sex workers.
12.10 - 12.40
Speaker: Dr. Maggie
O'Neill
Affiliation: StaffordshireUniversity
Presentation Title:
Participatory Action Research (PAR) With Sex Workers and Communities Affected
by Street Prostitution: Working Together to Create Change, One Step Forward,
One Step Back.
Biography
Dr Maggie O'Neill is Reader in Sociology at Staffordshire
University.
'Prostitution and Feminism: towards a politics of feeling' was published
in 2002 with Polity Press.
She has worked in the area since 1990 using PAR methods in work with sex
workers and communities affected by prostitution.
12.10 - 12.40
Speaker: Rosie Campbell
Affiliation: UK
Network of Sex Work Projects
Presentation Title: Participatory
Action Research (PAR) With Sex Workers and Communities Affected by Street
Prostitution: Working Together to Create Change, One Step Forward, One
Step Back.
Biography
Rosie Campbell is Senior Consultant with Nacro, Consultancy
North, Crime and Social Policy Section.
She has carried out applied policy research, and been involved with strategic development and service interventions on sex work since 1995. As Chair of the UK Network of Sex Work Projects she works with sex work projects throughout the UK. With Dr Maggie O'Neill and Professor Roger Matthews she is currently editing a forthcoming book "Prostitution Now".
14.00 - 14.30
Speaker: Professor
David Canter
Affiliation: Centre
for Investigative Psychology, University of Liverpool
Presentation Title: Controlling
Client Violence: Street Worker Strategies
Biography
David Canter is a Professor of Psychology at the University
of Liverpool where he is responsible for postgraduate studies and a wide
range of research projects. He is internationally known for his work in
environmental psychology. In broad terms this is concerned with the impact
of the built environment on people's lives. This work has involved him
in studies of many different types of buildings including offices and
hospitals, prisons and housing. His work has led to the development of
a general theory of how places influence people's lives, which has been
published in books and many journal articles. He has given advice to a
number of government enquiries and court proceedings on many aspects of
design. Over the past 10 years he has become involved in the study of
the behaviour of criminals and as part of this research he has contributed
to over 100 police investigations.
From these experiences he has developed the field of Investigative Psychology. The origins of this field are described in his book Criminal Shadows that won the Golden Dagger Award for non-fiction in 1994. This work is now being taken further in a variety of studies covering everything from arson to stalking. His MSc course in Investigative Psychology, which is the only one of its kind in the world covers this rapidly developing field and is attended by psychologists and police officers from all over the world.
14.30 - 15.00
Speaker: Professor Roger Mathews
Affiliation: Middlesex
University
Presentation Title:
Prostitution: A National Audit
Biography
Roger Matthews is Professor of Sociology in the School
of Health and Social Science, Middlesex University. He has conducted a
number of research projects on female prostitution and is co-editor of
'Prostitution' with Maggie O'Neill (Ashgate 2003). He was an advisor to
the All Party Parliamentary Group on Prostitution in 1996 and has recently
acted as a moderator for the Home Office initiative on 'Tackling Crime
and Disorder Associated with Prostitution'.
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15.00 - 15.30
Speaker: Hilary
Kinnell
Affiliation: UK
Network of Sex Work Projects
Presentation Title: Is
Violence towards Sex Workers an essential part of Prostitution Control
Policy?
Biography
Since 1998 Hilary Kinnell has co-ordinated the UK
network of agencies offering sexual health and other services to sex workers
in the UK. Until March 2002, this role was under the aegis of EUROPAP,
the European Network for HIV/STD Prevention in Prostitution. Since March
2002 the UK network has constituted itself as a voluntary association,
the UK Network of Sex Work Projects (UKNSWP). She is currently continuing
to act as Network Co-ordinator, in a voluntary capacity.
After working in community development, community relations, youth work, and in GU departments as a health adviser, she joined the Public Health Department in Birmingham in 1987, initially in a generic HIV prevention role.
Hilary Kinnell initiated the Safe Project in Birmingham in 1987 and managed the project and its outreach team until 1996. Safe was one of the first sexual health and HIV prevention outreach projects for sex workers in the UK. While she was manager of Safe the outreach team made contact with over 4000 sex workers, and over 500 injecting drug users. She also initiated and supervised several major pieces of research into commercial sex and injecting drug use in Birmingham and surrounding areas.
Hilary Kinnell is a freelance consultant on issues relating to the commercial sex industry (prostitution), sexual health, HIV prevention, drugs and the management of outreach work, and have published articles relating to both health and safety in the sex industry.
16.30 - 17.00
Speaker: Dr Jenny
Pearce
Affiliation: Middlesex
University
Presentation Title: Meeting
the Challenge: Accessing Drug Using Young People Exploited through Prostitution
Biography
Dr Jenny J Pearce, Head of the Social Policy Research
Centre, Middlesex University teaches, researches and publishes on topics
related to young women, sexual exploitation, community safety and prostitution.
Drawing on her previous experience in teaching and youth work within youth
justice, she is committed to user involvement in action research that
contributes to developments in policy and practice.
17.00 - 17.30
Speaker: Judith
Connell
Affiliation: University
of Glasgow
Presentation Title: The
Health and Safety of Male Sex Workers in Edinburgh and Glasgow
Biography
Judith Connell is a research associate with the Medical
Research Council Social and Public Health Sciences Unit based at the University
of Glasgow.
For the past ten years she has been conducting primarily qualitative research in the areas of health and social policy addressing issues such as: sex work, STIs, intravenous drug use, mental health, health of minority populations and maternity care. She has also worked with the Lord Chancellors Department making policy recommendations in the area of divorce law in Britain. Judith is currently conducting research into social and sexual networks and the spread of gonorrhoea in Scotland.
Judith also works as a sessional outreach worker for Phace Scotland with men who sell sex and cruising men in Glasgow.
The work Judith is presenting today is based on research she conducted between 2001-2002 with male sex workers and professionals in Edinburgh and Glasgow.
