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Dr Pippa Grenfell

Assistant Professor

United Kingdom

I am a sociologist researching how legal, political, social, cultural and economic contexts shape the safety, health and rights of marginalised groups and communities, particularly people who sell sex. My primary expertise is in qualitative methods but I also work in collaboration with colleagues across diverse disciplines to carry out mixed methods research. I'm committed to critical, feminist, participatory approaches which value the knowledge and expertise of communities, and which challenge the boundaries between the 'academy' and the 'community'.

Affiliations

Department of Public Health, Environments and Society
Faculty of Public Health and Policy

Centres

Centre for Maternal Adolescent Reproductive & Child Health

Teaching

I co-organize, lecture and chair panel discussions on the Sexual Health MSc module at LSHTM, in conjunction with Mitzy Gafos. In previous years, I have led seminars on the Principles of Social Research module, which forms part of the MSc in Public Health.

I tutor, supervise and advise masters students studying Public Health. I supervise and advise research degree (PhD and DrPH) students who use qualitative and/or mixed methods to explore issues of sex work, gender, sexuality, HIV, sexual and reproductive health and rights, and social justice. I currently have availability to accept new PhD and DrPH students in these fields.

Selected Publications

The impact of policing and homelessness on violence experienced by women who sell sex in London: a modelling study.
Walker, JG; Elmes, J; GRENFELL, P; Eastham, J; Hill, K; Stuart, R; Boily, M-C; PLATT, L; Vickerman, P;
2024
Scientific reports
Necropolitics and Necroresistance: A Qualitative Research with Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Communities during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Stuart, R; GRENFELL, P; Renedo, A; MCGOWAN, CR; Kühlbrandt, C; MARSTON, C;
2024
Papers from the British Criminology Conference
Health risks at work mean risks at home: Spatial aspects of COVID-19 among migrant workers in precarious jobs in England.
Miles, S; RENEDO, A; Kühlbrandt, C; MCGOWAN, C; Stuart, R; GRENFELL, P; MARSTON, C;
2023
Sociology of health & illness
Community-led responses to COVID-19 within Gypsy and Traveller communities in England: A participatory qualitative research study.
RENEDO, A; Stuart, R; Kühlbrandt, C; GRENFELL, P; MCGOWAN, CR; Miles, S; Farrow, S; MARSTON, C;
2023
SSM - Qualitative Research in Health
COVID-19 vaccination decisions among Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller communities: A qualitative study moving beyond "vaccine hesitancy".
Kühlbrandt, C; MCGOWAN, CR; Stuart, R; GRENFELL, P; Miles, S; RENEDO, A; MARSTON, C;
2023
Vaccine
Policing and public health interventions into sex workers’ lives: necropolitical assemblages and alternative visions of social justice
GRENFELL, P; Stuart, R; Eastham, J; Gallagher, A; Elmes, J; PLATT, L; O’Neill, M;
2022
Critical Public Health
The Effect of Systemic Racism and Homophobia on Police Enforcement and Sexual and Emotional Violence among Sex Workers in East London: Findings from a Cohort Study.
PLATT, L; Bowen, R; GRENFELL, P; Stuart, R; Sarker, MD; Hill, K; Walker, J; Javarez, X; Henham, C; Mtetwa, S; HARGREAVES, J; Boily, M-C; Vickerman, P; Hernandez, P; Elmes, J;
2022
Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine
Effect of police enforcement and extreme social inequalities on violence and mental health among women who sell sex: findings from a cohort study in London, UK.
ELMES, J; Stuart, R; GRENFELL, P; Walker, J; Hill, K; Hernandez, P; Henham, C; Rutsito, S; Sarker, MD; Creighton, S; Browne, C; Boily, M-C; Vickerman, P; PLATT, L;
2021
Sexually Transmitted Infections
Left out in the cold: the extreme unmet health and support needs of street sex workers in Newham, East London
Stuart, R; GRENFELL, P;
2021
Left out in the cold: the extreme unmet health and support needs of street sex workers in Newham, East London
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