ISWRN Board Members listed alphabetically:
 | Dr Adeline Berry is a transgender and intersex senior research fellow at the University of Huddersfield whose PhD research focused on the experiences and needs of older European intersex people in Europe, conducted as part of the MSCA funded INIA research network. They have spoken at conferences in Stockholm, London, Limerick, Cork and Dublin on the intersection of gender, sex work and the law. Research includes “Giving Voice to Diversity in Criminological Research: Nothing About Us Without Us” with Maynooth University and “Life for Sex Workers in Ireland Under the Swedish Model of Client Criminalisation.” |
 | Dr Gillian Wylie is Associate Professor and currently Head of the School of Religion at Trinity College Dublin. Her academic work centres on the issue of human trafficking with a particular interest in the politics of trafficking discourses. Her published works include The International Politics of Human Trafficking (Palgrave 2016) and Feminism, Prostitution and the State: The Politics of Neo-Abolitionism (edited with Eilis Ward, Routledge 2017). Her research specialism lies in human trafficking, the politics of international migration, globalization and gender issues. |
 | Dr Kathryn McGarry is a lecturer in social policy in the Department of Applied Social Studies, Maynooth University. Her research interests include gender and risk, prostitution policy and discourse analysis. She has participated as an expert academic witness in Irish government consultations on prostitution legislation in Ireland, calling for a social justice response. She has been chair of the board of the Sex Workers Alliance Ireland (SWAI). She was an editor of Sex Work, Labour and Relations: New Directions and Reflections (Palgrave, 2022). |
 | Dr Leigh-Ann Sweeney is an Assistant Professor in Social Work at Trinity College Dublin. Her research interests include the broad substantive topics of sex work, gender equity and feminist discourse in social work education and practice. With a scholarly background in Health Promotion, she has a particular interest in sexual health, health equity, the social determinants of health, and access and inclusion to health and social care services. She is a qualitative researcher with expertise in biographical narrative inquiry and participatory action research. |
 | Dr Paul Ryan is a lecturer in sociology at Maynooth University. His research focuses on questions of sexuality, personal life and the law. His earlier work has focused on LGBTI communities and the history of the movement from the decriminalisation of homosexuality to the successful campaign for gay marriage in 2015. Since 2009 he has been involved in a number of research projects on sex work as a researcher or in an advisory capacity. He was a founding member of the Sex Workers Alliance Ireland (SWAI). He published the book Male Sex Work in the Digital Age: Curated Lives (Palgrave, 2019). He was an editor of Sex Work, Labour and Relations: New Directions and Reflections (Palgrave, 2022). More details about his work and publications can be found at – https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/people/paul-ryan. |
 | Lucy A. Smyth has a bachelor's degree in criminology and a master’s degree in history as well as a postgraduate diploma in corruption studies and a postgraduate certificate in human trafficking. She has more than 25 years of experience working with sex workers and police across Ireland and the UK. She set up and continues to run the world’s first online sex worker safety scheme, Ugly Mugs Ireland. She has long been involved in research on present-day day sex work. However, her true passion is modern history. She is particularly interested in the history of policing of people who were perceived to not conform to the sexual norms of their time. |
 | Professor Graham Ellison is a criminologist with a primary interest in the policing and regulation of commercial sex. He has conducted research on both male and female sex workers in a number jurisdictions (Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, Germany, Czech Republic and England). His current research interests include the intersection of radical feminist and conservative religious discourses around ‘prostitution’ that stem from the Christian Right. Other aspects of his research focus on the dynamics of commercial sex in periods of heightened political tension such as the extreme form socio-political conflict that erupted in Northern Ireland. |
 | Professor Maggie O’Neill is Head and Professor in Sociology at University College, Cork. Before taking up a chair at University College, Cork, she was Chair in Sociology & Criminology in the Department of Sociology at the University of York, and Professor in Criminology at the University of Durham and Principal of Ustinov College. She describes herself as an inter-disciplinary scholar. Her PhD in Sociology explored the transformative possibilities for conducting feminist participatory action research with sex workers and was awarded in 1996. The majority of the empirical research she has conducted uses participatory action research, ethnographic and biographical methods and participatory arts. She has a long history of working with artists and community groups to conduct arts based research-working together to create change; and social justice is at the core of her work. |
 | A representative of Red Umbrella Éireann (RUE) sits on the ISWRN Board. RUE is a sex worker led organisation, bringing lived experience of sex work to the ISWRN. RUE is a collective of current and former sex workers campaigning for decriminalisation. RUE organises the Red Umbrella Film Festival (RUFF). |
 | A representative of the Sex Workers Alliance Ireland (SWAI) sits on the ISWRN Board. SWAI is a sex worker led organisation, bringing lived experience of sex work to the ISWRN. SWAI supports the social inclusion, health, safety, civil rights and the right to self determination of female, male, cisgender and transgender sex workers. |