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Megan Todd

Senior Lecturer/Course Leader in Sociology

School of Justice

Qualitative sociology, Gender, Sexualities, Interpersonal violence, Feminism

Megan Todd is Senior Lecturer in Social Science at the University of Central Lancashire. Her research focuses on sexualities, gender and violence; she has published on issues relating to intimate partner violence, ageing, health, feminisms and homophobic and misogynist abuse online. She has been involved in a range of research projects, including LGBT+ domestic abuse service users in Lancashire. More recently, she is developing work on universities’ management of their LGBT+ heritage. She has been teaching sociology in Higher Education for nearly two decades, prior to which she taught English literature at secondary school.

PhD 'Troubling Tales: Exploring Responses to Lesbian Domestic Violence', Newcastle University, 2008 | MA Sociology and Social Research, Newcastle University, 2003 | MA Gender Studies, Newcastle University, 2002 | PGCE Charlotte Mason College, Ambleside, University of Lancaster, 1996 | MA (Hons) English Literature, University of Aberdeen, 1994

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  1. Todd, Megan orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-4274-8469 (2013) Blue Rinse Blues? Older Lesbians’ Experiences of Domestic Violence. In: Mapping Intimacies: Relations, Exchanges, Affects. Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life . Palgrave Macmillan, London. ISBN 9780230356023
  2. Todd, Megan orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-4274-8469 (2014) Sociology. In: Social Work: An Introduction. Sage, London. ISBN 9781446208892
  3. Todd, Megan orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-4274-8469 (2012) Sexuality and Health. In: Understanding the Sociology of Health. Sage, London. ISBN 9781446201879
  4. Todd, Megan orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-4274-8469, Hothershall, Steve and Owen, Janet (2011) Intimacies. In: Sociology for Social Work. Sage, London. ISBN 9781848606500
  5. Todd, Megan orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-4274-8469 (2017) Virtual Violence: Cyberspace, Misogyny and Online Abuse. In: New Perspectives on Cybercrime. Palgrave Studies in Cybercrime and Cybersecurity . Palgave Macmillan, Cham, London, pp. 141-158. ISBN 978-3-319-53855-6
  6. Todd, Megan orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-4274-8469 (2021) ‘In and Out, On and Off - LGBT Online Experiences’. In: Rethinking Cybercrime: Critical Debates. Palgrave Macmillan, London. ISBN 978-3-030-55841-3
  7. Todd, Megan orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-4274-8469 (2021) ‘Thinking the Unthinkable: Older Lesbians, Sex and Violence’. In: Sex and Diversity in Later Life: Critical Perspectives (Sex and Intimacy in Later Life). Sex and Intimacy in Later Life, 1 . Policy Press, Bristol University. ISBN 1447355407
  8. Yuill, Chris, Thorpe, Chris and Todd, Megan orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-4274-8469 (2018) Heads up Sociology. Dorling Kindersley (DK). ISBN 978-1465468635
  9. Yuill, Chris, Thorpe, Chris and Todd, Megan orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-4274-8469 (2015) The Sociology Book. In: The Sociology Book. Big Ideas Simply Explained . Dorling Kindersley (DK). ISBN 9781465436504
  10. Todd, Megan orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-4274-8469 (2019) Feminism is...Answering the big questions of feminism in simple terms. Dorling Kindersley (DK), London. ISBN 9780241228029
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