Dr Pippa Grenfell

Assistant Professor

United Kingdom

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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

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

'We go where we know': Reflections from Mobilizing for PrEP and Sexual Health (MobPrESH) - A peer-led PrEP education programme across England, for and by women and non-binary people.

GRENFELL, P; Rafael, S; Calliste, J; Nutland, W;

2022

Women's Health

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

(Not) talking about fertility: the role of digital technologies and health services in helping plan pregnancy. A qualitative study.

FRENCH, RS; Shawe, J; TILOUCHE, N; Earle, S; GRENFELL, P;

2020

BMJ sexual & reproductive health

Fertility and digital technology: narratives of using smartphone app 'Natural Cycles' while trying to conceive.

GRENFELL, P; TILOUCHE, N; Shawe, J; FRENCH, RS;