Our Work

We work with interdisciplinary research teams, community organizations and policy makers across the globe. Drawing on mixed-methods, discursive methods, as well as new and emerging methodologies, our work sits across three major clusters:

• Working with marginalised populations in order to foster inclusion and promote social justice

• Examining emerging social issues in the area of technology, identity, gender, sexuality and race/ethnicity

• Epistemological/Methodological developments in Psychology

Our work draws on social psychological theory, intersectional theory, critical theory, feminist theory, and broadly spans the following concerns:

• The primary prevention of gender inequality and sexism

• The primary prevention of gender-based/sexual violence

• Ethical relationality

• Contemporary shifts in intimate life (across the globe)

• The sex industry and sex trafficking

• Intersectionality, social inclusion, social justice (focusing on marginalised groups, politics and policy)

• Research methods in psychology

Active projects: Research

• Transgender health and identity development in US – gender and sexuality across the minority experience (African, Black and Latinx population) – with Dr Lisa Rubin and Dr Thomas Vance, Sam Klein, and Kay Nikiforova.

• Mitigating technologically mediated harm: The pleasures, danger and ethics of online dating – with Professor Rosalind Gill (University of London UK), Dr Roisin Ryan-Flood (University of Essex, UK), Professor Maria Gurevich (Ryerson University, Canada), Dr Tiina Vares (University of Canterbury, NZ), Tara Pond (AUT, NZ).

• Problematic porn use in intimate heterosexual relationships

• Making sense of online pornography

Active projects: Books

• Farvid, P. (in press, 2020/21). The Psychology of Heterosexuality: Theory, Research and Practice. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

• Farvid, P. & Orchard, T. (pipeline) Swiping Ourselves: Gender, Power & Sexuality in Digital Dating Cultures. Palgrave Studies In (Re)Presenting Gender

• Callander, D., Farvid, P. & Baradaran, A. (pipeline). Sexual Racism. New York, Oxford University Press.