Leeds Beckett University - City Campus,
Woodhouse Lane,
LS1 3HE
Dr Saskia Jones
Senior Lecturer
Dr Saskia Jones is a Lecturer in Psychology whose research interests are broadly within the areas of sexual consent, gender, sexuality, power and power inequalities, as well as creative and participatory research methods.
Saskia gained a BSc (Hons) Psychology degree at Manchester Metropolitan University in 2014. After this, she joined Leeds Beckett University to undertake a PhD supervised by Dr Kate Milnes and Dr Rhys Turner-Moore titled 'Young people’s understandings of sexual consent and the impact of power inequalities within their sexual relationships'. Saskia previously worked as a Lecturer in Psychology at Staffordshire University before rejoining Leeds Beckett in 2022.
Saskia is a member of the Stigmatised Sexualities and Sexual Harm research group at Leeds Beckett University and the co-lead for the Genders and Sexualities Programme within the Centre for Psychological Research. Saskia teaches across a range of undergraduate Psychology modules including Forensic Psychology, Psychology of Women, and qualitative research methods.
Research Interests
Saskia's research interests include sexual consent, gender, sexuality, power and power inequalities. She is a qualitative researcher with a particular interest in creative and participatory research methods.
Saskia's recent projects:
- Young people’s understandings of sexual consent and the impact of power inequalities within their sexual relationships: This project utilised creative research methods as well as thematic and discourse analysis to explore the impact of power inequalities (e.g., age, gender, popularity) on young people's understandings about sexual consent and sexual consent communication, with a view to prevent sexual harm
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