I am concerned with the challenges faced by adolescents within a cultural landscape permeated by misogyny and patriarchal narratives influencing their gendered identity, gendered embodiment and gendered sexual behaviours. I am interested in what Sexuality, Relationship and Health Education (RSHE) can do to counteract these negative influences and to reduce violence against women and girls. I completed an MRes in Sexuality and Gender Studies at the University of Birmingham (UoB), researching how sexual anatomy representations currently used in secondary schools RSHE impact on the lived experience of young people in terms of safety, gender equality and LGBTQ+ inclusion compared to representations based on biological and scientific knowledge. My research is grounded on centring youth voices in order to meaningfully inform RSHE policy makers.

My book All Of Us: Storytelling to Build Critical Thinking in Sex Education is an anthology of interviews with people that recount the most positive and the most negative sexual experience they had during their adolescence. It is a pedagogical approach grounded on five pillars: storytelling, a powerful tool to enable young people to meaningfully engage with sex education; real stories make it more compelling for young people to identify with different people and contexts; the focus on building critical thinking, empathy and self-awareness; LGBTQ+ inclusion; inter-generational perspectives producing a powerful dynamic of community learning, deep belonging and powerful solidarity.