Student Sex Work - International Perspectives and Implications for Policy and Practice

This book provides a contemporary collection of key works that chart new and ongoing terrain on student sex work. It brings together experienced researchers, activists, practitioners, early career researchers and those with lived experience of doing sex work in the university setting from across the globe.

The book addresses three core areas: Activism, Ideology and Exclusion; Motivations and Experiences; and University Policy, Practice and Service Delivery. This collection represents significant theoretical, methodological and policy and practice contributions within sex work studies. These new perspectives contribute to our existing knowledge, introduce new directions for scholarship and prompt new and exciting questions about how higher education students' participation in sex work can be researched, understood and responded to in an ethical, non-stigmatising approach. The book will be of interest to students, researchers and service providers and given the interdisciplinary nature of the chapters, the book has a cross-disciplinary appeal.


Debbie Jones is Professor of Criminology and currently the School Education Lead for the School of Social Sciences at Swansea University, UK. Debbie was the project manager and co-principal investigator of The Student Sex Work Project. Debbie has an interest in how methodological innovations and teaching play a role of public criminology towards supporting change for marginalised groups.

Teela Sanders is Professor of Criminology and currently Dean for Research and Enterprise for the College of Social Sciences Arts and Humanities at the University of Leicester, UK. She is a leading international scholar in research on the intersections between gender, regulation, governance and crime, specifically in the sex industry. Sanders has written 8 books, edited 10, and has over 60 peer reviewed journal articles, based on research projects funded from major research councils.