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Felicity Woodhouse

Graduate Teaching Assistant

School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Felicity Woodhouse is a PhD Researcher and a Graduate Teaching Assistant. Her PhD project explores how power and freedom to consent operate in the UK sugar dating scene. Her research interests include: gender, sexuality, consent, and power.

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About

Felicity Woodhouse is a PhD Researcher and a Graduate Teaching Assistant at Leeds Beckett. Her PhD project explores how power and freedom to consent operate within the UK sugar dating scene. She is particularly interested in exploring the impact of intersecting identities on the experiences of sugar dating recipients within this scene. Felicity is a feminist qualitative researcher whose research is always informed by a trans inclusive and prosex worker approach. Felicity is the Post-Graduate Researcher Co-Lead for the PsyCen Early Career Research Network. She is also a member of several other PsyCen groups, including the Gender and Sexualities and Sex Sexuality and Sexual Harm research groups, as well as the Qualitative Methods and Support Network. Felicity received a First Class Honours Degree in Psychology from Sheffield Hallam University in 2022. She then completed a Master's of Research in Psychology at the University of Derby in 2023, where she received a distinction and was awarded the 'MRes Psychology PL's Award' for the highest mark in her thesis.

Research interests

Felicity is currently conducting her PhD research exploring how power and freedom to consent operate within the UK sugar dating scene. Whilst sugar dating experiences may vary, they are typically conceived of as an age gap relationship in which an older (often male) 'benefactor' provides a younger (often female) 'recipient' with economic rewards in exchange for their time and company. This is a qualitative project exploring both the online and in-person experiences of sugar dating recipients in the UK. As well as examining the discourses used both by sugar dating recipients themselves, and within online sugar dating spaces more widely. This research project aims to understand and highlight the experiences of sugar dating recipients within the UK. This is important, as despite a recent proliferation of sugar dating within the UK, little is known about what these experiences entail and how power and freedom to consent operate within this context. Therefore, the hope is that by adding to this understanding of how power and freedom to consent operate, we can begin to challenge inequities in power and/or coercion and promote an equitable and consensual sugar dating experience for recipients.