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Overview

Louisa Allen is affiliated with the University of Auckland in New Zealand and specializes primarily in Social Sciences. Their research spans multiple subfields including Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science, Cultural Studies, Clinical Psychology, and Sensory Systems.

Their research topics reflect a focus on issues related to gender, identity, sensory experience, ethics, and social dynamics. The main topics covered in Louisa Allen's work include:

  • Gender, Feminism, and Media
  • Gender Roles and Identity Studies
  • Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies
  • Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
  • Geographies of human-animal interactions
  • LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
  • Youth Education and Societal Dynamics

Louisa Allen has contributed scholarly articles to various academic journals and edited volumes. Their recent papers include:

  • Safe but not safe: LGBTTIQA+ students' experiences of a university campus (2020), Higher Education Research & Development
  • The smell of lockdown: Smellwalks as sensuous methodology (2021), Qualitative Research
  • What Can the Netflix Series Sex Education Teach School-Based Sexuality Education? (2023), American Journal of Sexuality Education
  • Thinking with new materialism about 'safe-un-safe' campus space for LGBTTIQA+ students (2020), Social & Cultural Geography

The frequent publication venues for Louisa Allen's work include:

  • Sex Education
  • Bristol University Press eBooks
  • Higher Education Research & Development
  • Qualitative Research
  • Children & Society

In addition to journal articles, Louisa Allen has multiple book publications largely through Bristol University Press eBooks and also Policy Press, featuring titles such as "Reproduction, Kin and Climate Crisis" released in 2023.

The scholar often collaborates with other researchers, frequently publishing alongside:

  • Mary Lou Rasmussen
  • Celia Roberts
  • Rebecca Williamson
  • Lucy Cowie
  • John Fenaughty

Best Publications

  • Girls Want Sex, Boys Want Love: Resisting Dominant Discourses of (Hetero) Sexuality

    Louisa Allen

  • Sexual Subjects: Young People, Sexuality and Education

    Louisa Allen

  • ‘Say everything’: exploring young people's suggestions for improving sexuality education

    Louisa Allen

  • Beyond the birds and the bees: constituting a discourse of erotics in sexuality education

    Louisa Allen

  • Denying the sexual subject: schools' regulation of student sexuality

    Louisa Allen

  • Closing Sex Education's Knowledge/Practice Gap: The reconceptualisation of young people's sexual knowledge

    Louisa Allen

  • 'They Think You Shouldn't be Having Sex Anyway': Young People's Suggestions for Improving Sexuality Education Content

    Louisa Allen

  • Managing masculinity: young men's identity work in focus groups

    Louisa Allen

  • Young People and Sexuality Education: Rethinking Key Debates

    Louisa Allen

  • ‘Pleasure has no passport’: re-visiting the potential of pleasure in sexuality education

    Louisa Allen;Moira Carmody

  • “Sensitive and Real Macho All at the Same Time”: Young Heterosexual Men and Romance

    Louisa Allen

  • Young People and Sexuality Education

    Louisa Allen

  • Teaching pleasure and danger in sexuality education

    Vanessa Cameron-Lewis;Louisa Allen

  • Young people's ‘agency’ in sexuality research using visual methods

    Louisa Allen

  • ‘Picture this’: using photo-methods in research on sexualities and schooling

    Louisa Allen

  • “Looking at the Real Thing”: Young men, pornography, and sexuality education

    Louisa Allen

  • Doing ‘it’ differently: relinquishing the disease and pregnancy prevention focus in sexuality education

    Louisa Allen

  • ‘Caught in the act’: ethics committee review and researching the sexual culture of schools:

    Louisa Allen

  • ‘Snapped’: researching the sexual cultures of schools using visual methods

    Louisa Allen

  • Power talk: young people negotiating (hetero)sex

    Louisa Allen

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Sexuality Education

    Louisa Allen;Mary Lou Rasmussen

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrea Santangelo
Andrea Santangelo University of Tübingen
S. S. Meyer
S. S. Meyer University of Chicago
F. Cafagna
F. Cafagna National Institute for Nuclear Physics
Angela V. Olinto
Angela V. Olinto University of Chicago
Yoshitaka Itow
Yoshitaka Itow Nagoya University
Ken'ichi Nomoto
Ken'ichi Nomoto University of Tokyo
Toshiki Tajima
Toshiki Tajima University of California, Irvine
Andreas Haungs
Andreas Haungs Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Valerie Connaughton
Valerie Connaughton National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Akinori Saito
Akinori Saito Kyoto University

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