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Lecturer in Applied Social Sciences: Childhood & Youth

I have recently joined the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ in September 2021 as a new academic. However, I have spent my professional career working face-to-face with children and young people of various ages, and training the professionals who work with them.

I have a particularly unique set of skills, from working as an Independent Relationship and Sex Education (RSE) Consultant. I established my own consultancy business ten years ago. I have vast experience of working with children and young people (from 4yrs+), including those of multi-faiths and cultures; from various social-economic backgrounds; and those who identify as LGBTQA+; often around the most sensitive of topics.

In my previous role I supported professionals including: teachers, social workers, youth offending practitioners, police officers, foster carers, school nurses and youth workers; this includes specialist training packages, advising on policy and guidance, health promotion, and safeguarding. As a result, I have up to date practice knowledge of relevant policies, guidelines and legislation regarding young people, RSE, Online harms, risk taking behaviours, emotional wellbeing and Safeguarding.

I am currently working on my PhD part time at Bournemouth ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½. My research is an ethnographic study, exploring how schools, parents and policy makers approach the issue of pornography with young people. Prior to my PhD I completed a Masters in Children’s Literature and Culture here at the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½. This was a mixed discipline course, incorporating sociological perspectives, the history of childhood, research methods and literature. I used this as an opportunity to bring together my academic knowledge around children's literature from my BA and my professional experience as a sexual health worker - my dissertation explored messages around sex and sexuality in young adult fiction and how this reflected current policy around RSE.

I have worked with young people for all of my adult life. Indeed, young people have always been at the heart of what I do. I have always taken I child centred approach, often working specifically to help give young people a voice in the work that affects them.

Qualifications

• PhD (in progress) Relationship & Sex Education – Bournemouth ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½
• MA Children’s Literature & Culture – ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½
• BA Hons English Literature & Philosophy – ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ of Sheffield

Research Interests

• Comprehensive Relationships & Sex Education – attitudes and values
• Online harms, mobile phones, sexting (nudes), pornography & Sex media & digital citizenship
• Gender Identity, Sexuality & Heterosexualism.
• Harmful Sexualised Behaviours
• Youth engagement & participation. Advocacy & the voice of young people.

Publications

• Hunt, J (2021). Sex Ed for Grown-ups: How to Talk to Children and Young People about Sex And Relationships. Speechmark, Routledge.
• Newby, Katie & Crutzen, Rik & Brown, Katherine & Bailey, Julia & Saunders, John & Szczepura, Ala & Hunt, Jonny & Alston, Tim & Sadiq, Tariq & Das, Satyajit. (2018). Wrapped: Development of an intervention to increase condom use amongst users of chlamydia self-sampling websites (Preprint). 10.2196/preprints.11242.
• Newby, Katie & Brown, Katherine & Bayley, Julie & Kehal, Isher & Caley, Mike & Danahay, Amy & Hunt, Jonny & Critchley, George. (2017). Development of an Intervention to Increase Sexual Health Service Uptake by Young People. Health promotion practice. 18. 1524839916688645. 10.1177/1524839916688645.

Contact Details

T: +44 (0)1582 743960 (ext 3960)
E: jonny.hunt@beds.ac.uk