The OU Research Group on Reproduction, Sexualities and Sexual Health
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The podcast is about creating a space for fellow practitioners, researchers and activists to learn more about key issues on reproduction, sexualities and sexual health. The podcast series is based on seminars held by the research group with topics including LGBTIQ rights, abortion, youth, HIV and sexual health.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Research concepts become concrete through candid discussions of reproductive care, institutional power and the people whose experience should guide both.
The Sex, Research & Resistance Podcast follows reproductive and sexual health questions into the institutions, campaigns and research practices that shape people's care.
Abortion rights on paper are one thing; your questions about who actually gets access belong here.
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A careful look at girlhood, transition, and education in international development.
PlayNext frames this episode around girlhood, adolescence, and transition in international development, with Elizabeth Housecroft alongside Dr. Jane Doker and Dr. Alison Buckler.
Dignity becomes a test of power, rights, and recognition in maternity care.
Martha Nicholson frames this episode around dignity in birthing and maternity care, keeping the focus on who is treated as fully human inside state institutions and rights language.
A careful look at photovoice as public engagement and accessible research.
It presents photovoice as a route to wider audiences, a way to challenge stereotypes, and a prompt to rethink research through photographs. The discussion is strongest when it shows how images can carry meaning beyond text, giving academic work a reach that can include both…
A measured HIV discussion about how social worlds shape sexual and reproductive health.
This first part of the mini-series uses HIV to think through how the social determinants of health shape sexual and reproductive well-being, from the way people live, grow, and work to the norms and customs that influence risk and choice.
A careful look at how reproductive anxiety shapes dating, research, and silence.
This review presents reproductive anxiety as a force that spills into dating, partner choice, IVF planning, research practice, and the question of who feels safe speaking up.
A careful, policy-minded look at how stigma shapes care, language, and survival across abortion, foster care, and poverty.
This episode treats stigma as a practical force, not a slogan, moving through abortion care, foster care, and poverty to show how it shapes access to resources and autonomy.
A clear look at how abortion reform can still miss the people it was meant to help.
This episode looks at abortion campaigns in the south and north of Ireland as a study in intersectionality, and it is strongest when it treats legal change as only one piece of the picture.
A grounded SRHR discussion that keeps context, training, and young people's needs at the center.
The episode frames youth sexual and reproductive health and rights in rural, remote, and island settings as a matter of real-world service delivery, sexuality education, research, activism, and community building.
Candid sex talk with kink-literate warmth.
Martha Nicholson opens with dignity in birthing and maternity care.
Researchers discuss the micro-level impacts of stigma in abortion, poverty, and foster care systems, exploring how language, media, and policies reinforce negative stereotypes.
This episode explores the concept of girlhood in international development, featuring researchers Jane Doker and Alison Buckler.
This episode explores girlhood in international development, discussing how labels like 'girl' can infantilize but also be used strategically by girls to access resources.
The panel opens part two by asking how social determinants can leave some people more exposed to HIV than others.
Elise Dennis Ramirez opens part two by bringing the discussion back to photovoice and the wider question of community and connection.
This episode starts with a conversation about building community and connection through participatory creative research.
Elizabeth opens the conversation by framing sexual and reproductive health and rights in rural and island spaces, with young people at the center.
Part 2 continues the conversation on abortion campaigns in Ireland and asks what intersectionality looks like once it meets the law.
Part two circles back to reproductive anxiety.
Part 2 returns to dignity in maternity care.
Martha Nicholson opens part one of a mini-series on social determinants of health.
Sam Murphy opens by framing reproductive anxiety across young people, perinatal death, and LGBTQ experiences of reproductive services.
The podcast opens a two part discussion on intersectionality and the Irish abortion campaigns of 2018 and 2019.
Part two returns to youth sexual and reproductive health and rights in rural, remote, and island settings.