Fiona Grattan
Making sense of sex positivity
PhD Student
School of Psychology
Profile
Fiona Grattan uses a range of qualitative methods to research in the areas of gender, sexualities, sexual socialisation, and body-image. She has expertise in conversation analysis and critical discourse analysis. Her research is at the intersection of critical health, social psychology, and media studies, applying a social justice lens to understanding psychological issues as situated in socio-political, economic, and historical contexts. Her current doctoral work explores how sex and body positive social media constructs sex, sexualities, and the body, how young women and gender diverse people make sense of this content and in turn, the ways these understandings play out in their own lives. This work questions whether and how social movements like sex positivity realise their trangressive potential.
Qualifications
BA Hons (1st Class) in Psychology, Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington
MSc in Psychology, awarded with Distinction
Research Interests
Sex, gender, body-image, social constructionism, feminist research, gendered violence, sexual violence, discourse, health care delivery, critical health psychology.
PhD topic
Making sense of sex positivity
Supervisor/s:
Prof Marc Wilson - School of Psychology
A/Prof Mary Breheny
Dr Octavia Calder-Dawe