Third Laura Lee Sex Worker Human Rights Lecture

Webcast link for online viewing: https://ucc.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=c0bffb3a-8751-4e14-9b87-b2d5008f4e1c

You are warmly invited to the third Laura Lee Sex Worker Human Rights Lecture, which will be taking place at University College Cork (UCC) on Friday 9th May 2025 at 17:00.

It will be presented by Dr. Caroline West, bestselling author of Wrong Women: Selling Sex in Monto, Dublin’s Forgotten Red Light District.

To register to attend please visit https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/laura-lee-sex-worker-human-rights-lecture-tickets-1345127696149

Sex Work Research Conference Annual Postgraduate Research Conference 2021

This year’s Annual Postgraduate Research Conference will be taking place online on 26th March 2021. This event is jointly organised by the Sex Work Research Hub and the Irish Sex Work Research Network. The programme outline is now available here.

CANCELLED – Sex Work Research Conference Annual Postgraduate Research Conference 2020

Update: 11/03/2020. Regretfully, this event has been cancelled, due the ongoing and evolving Coronavirus issue and a number of withdrawals already from the programme. We hope that we will have another opportunity soon to showcase and discuss important current sex work research.

Maynooth University, Ireland

Friday March 13th 2020

The Sex Work Research Hub and the Irish Sex Work Research Network are jointly putting on the annual PGR sex work conference which will be held in Ireland this year.

The conference is now in its second decade and has seen over a hundred and fifty students present their work to a supportive audience. We welcome abstracts of no more than 300 words submitted by 12th January 2020 to Professor Teela Sanders ([email protected])

Venue

Maynooth University is in Co. Kildare, just 25km from Dublin City Centre. The University is in the town of Maynooth and is easily accessible by train, bus and car from Dublin. There is also a direct bus link to Maynooth from Dublin Airport. There are a range of accommodation options available in the University ranging from €37 to €97 per night that can be booked directly on the link below. There are also hotel options in the town; the Glenroyal and the more aristocratic Carton House.

https://www.maynoothcampus.com/

https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/location/commuting

https://www.glenroyal.ie/

https://www.cartonhouse.com/

If you need any help or information about planning your trip to the conference, please email Dr. Paul Ryan, Department of Sociology, MU. [email protected]

Second Laura Lee Sex Worker Human Rights Public Lecture

Second Annual Laura Lee Lecture

The ISWRN is pleased to announce the second annual Laura Lee Sex Workers’ Human Right Lecture will be held at Kingston University, London 28th of November 2019 18:00-20:-00

Keynote: Professor Nick Mai

Discussants:

Nikki Adams (ECP – English Collective of Prostitutes)

Victoria Holt (SWARM – Sex Worker Advocacy and Resistance Movement)

Kate McGrew (SWAI and ICRSE – Sex Workers Alliance Ireland and International Committee for the Rights of Sex Workers in Europe and ISWRN)

Chair: Dr Sharron A. FitzGerald (co-chair ISWRN)

Registration is now open here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-laura-lee-sex-worker-human-rights-annual-lecture-2019-tickets-75169358575?ref=eios

12th North South Criminology Conference

The ISWRN participated in the 12th North South Criminology Conference at University College Cork on the 2-3rd September 2019. ISWRN member conference contributions comprised their empirical, policy and theoretical research on current sex work law and policy on the Island of Ireland.