Dr Leigh-Ann Sweeney is a Lecturer and health service researcher within the Discipline of Health Promotion and Social care at NUI Galway. Her research to date has focused on qualitative, service-user led research, with a specific interest in narrative inquiry, socio-environmental theories and gender. Dr Sweeney’s PhD research topic, The psychosocial experiences of women involved in prostitution: An exploratory study, provides empirical evidence on the health needs and experiences of women in the sex industry.