Dr Kym Atkinson

School of Health & Society

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Known as

Kym Atkinson

Contact Details

Current positions

Lecturer

Biography

Kym joined the Â׸£ÀûƬ in 2026 as a lecturer in Criminology. Her PhD explored women students' experiences of sexual violation at university and the nature of institutional responses. Her research continues to focus on the theorisation of sexual violation and conceptualisation of justice.

Areas of Research

- Gender, the state and sexual violation
- Sexual violation at university
- Gender, harm and victimisation
- Feminist methodologies
- Feminist theorisations of sexual violation and justice

Areas of Supervision

Gendered harms, sexual violation, gender and victimisation, feminist poststructuralism, gender and justice

Teaching

Kym has taught and led on a range of undergraduate and postgraduate modules relating to gender and harm, research methods and criminological theory.

Qualifications and Recognitions

Qualifications
  • Criminology

    2015 - 2020
  • Critical Social Science

    2011 - 2012
  • Criminology

    2008 - 2011