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Speaker: Judith
Connell
Affiliation: Medical
Research Council, 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.
