Dr Jessica Simpson BA (Hons), MA, PhD

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_{Grove, J (2021) ‘Whorephobia’ blocking research into student sex work’: Sociologist Jessica Simpson says research on student erotic dancers was hampered by obstructive universities and students’ unions, Times Higher Education, https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/whorephobia-blocking-research-student-sex-work-scholar}

Journal Articles

Simpson, J. and Mulcahy, R. (2025) The Hidden Pandemic: Consequences of and Responses to Qanon, Emerald Publishing.

Simpson, J. and Rand., H. (2024) Sex Work Politics and Consent: Problems and Unintended Consequences in James-Hawkins, L. and Ryan-Flood, R. (Eds.) Consent: Gender, Power, and Subjectivity, London: Routledge.

Simpson, J. (2024) The emergence and undermining of sex worker-led freelance feminism. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 27(3), pp.491-497.

Simpson, J. and Beer, C. (2022). Stigma and the Hostile University: A Cross-National, Comparative Analysis of Student Sex Work in the UK and Australia. In: Jones, D., Sanders, T. (eds) Student Sex Work. Palgrave Advances in Sex Work Studies.

Simpson, J. (2021) Whorephobia and reputation management in Higher Education: A reflexive account of researching cis-women’s experiences of stripping while at university, Higher Education, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-021-00751-2

Simpson, J. and Smith, C. (2020) Students, Sex Work and Negotiations of Stigma in the UK and Australia. Sexualities, 24(3):474-490.

Simpson, J. (2020) Degrees on the Side: Student Employment and the Neoliberal University, Soundings, 76, 10.3898/SOUN.76.05.2020.

Simpson, J. (2019). Poles apart? A comparative analysis of female university students and graduates working in the UK stripping and hospitality industries. (Unpublished Doctoral thesis, City, University of London embargo lifted 23 November 2023)

Simpson, J. (2018) “I’m not a bloody slave, I get paid and if I don’t get paid then nothing happens”: Sarah’s experience of being a student sex worker. Work Employment and Society, 33(4): 709-718.

Book Review

Simpson, J. (2017) Mary Laing, Katy Pilcher and Nicola Smith, Queer Sex Work, Routledge: Abingdon, 2015. Sexualities, 20(4): 515-517.

• 04/2021: A   question of women’s safety?: Sexual Harassment, Violence, and Unwanted   Behaviour and Attention, Leeds Beckett University.
• 11/2020:   Degrees on the side? Gender and Sexualities Research Centre research-in-progress   event at City, University of London.
• 04/2019: ‘Feeling   out of place: Student sex workers and the university’, The American   Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Washington DC.
• 12/2017: ‘A   comparative analysis of students working in the Australian and UK sex   industries’ with Cassandra Smith - Belonging in a mobile world, The   Australian Sociological Association (TASA) conference 2017, The University of   Western Australia, Perth.
• 07/2017: ‘Doing ‘dirty’ research’ - British Sociological Association   (BSA) Early Career Forum: Ethics, vulnerability and emotion in the research   process, University of Lincoln.
• 03/2017: ‘Graduate employment?   Students working in stripping and waitressing’ - COST action Prospol,   Displacing Sex for Sale, Aalborg   University, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• 06/2016: ‘A   comparative analysis of students working as strippers and waitresses’ - CERIC   Doctoral Conference, University of Leeds.
• 06/2016: ‘What happens next? Students working in the hospitality and   sex industry’ - Inequality and Social Justice in Education: Issues of Class,   Race, Gender and Sexuality, University of Warwick.
• 01/2016: ‘I’m   a student not just a stripper’-   Postgraduate Sex Work Research Conference, University of Leeds.