CANCELLED Inaugural Lecture, Professor Kirstin Mitchell
Date and time
Location
The Kelvin Hall Lecture Theatre
Kelvin Hall 1445 Argyle Street Glasgow 8AW United KingdomDescription
We are pleased to invite you to:
IHW Inaugural Lecture with Professor Kirstin Mitchell
Title: The Discomfort Zone: Researching sexual health in UK
Presenter: Professor Kirstin Mitchell
Date:
Time: 3-4pm, followed by a drinks reception from 4-5pm
Venue:
Chair: Professor Jill Pell
Lecture Outline
TBC
About the Speaker
Kirstin is a social scientist and primarily a qualitative researcher. She started out by studying humans from a multi-disciplinary perspective (BSc in Human Sciences at Oxford) and went on to focus on humans and health (MSc in Health Promotion at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; LSHTM) and subsequently on sexual health (PhD at LSHTM). Her early career interests were on UK sexual health issues (working as a junior researcher at LSHTM), but with time this interest broadened to Africa, in particular Uganda, Rwanda and Ethiopia (she lived in all three for a total period of 13 years). She spent several years working for non-government organisations (NGOs), as HIV Programme Co-ordinator for an international NGO in Uganda and as a Research and Evaluation Officer for the HIV/AIDS Alliance in Brighton, UK. She was a Lecturer at the LSHTM from 2008 to 2015, leading a survey component focused on sexual function and well-being for the third British National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (Natsal-3).
Kirstin joined the University of Glasgow in September 2015 and currently leads the Relationships and Health Improvement programme. Within the programme, she is also workstream lead for research on intimate and sexual relationships. She chairs the Staff Development and Learning group in SPHSU, with a focus on teaching and short courses.