Dr Lesley Hoggart

Lesley Hoggart. Dr. Lesley Hoggart is a Principal Research Fellow in the School of Health and Social Care at the University of Greenwich. She now convenes the Sexual Health Research and Training Group at the University. She specialises in qualitative research, and spent many years working in the qualitative research group at the Policy Studies Institute. Her research interests are focused on reproductive health, abortion policy and politics, teenage pregnancy and sexual health.

Her publications include: Feminist Campaigns for Birth Control and Abortion Rights in Britain, (The Edwin Mellen Press 2002);  Hoggart, L. and Phillips, J. (2009) Young people in London: abortion and repeat abortion Government Office for London, Young London Matters.
http://www.younglondonmatters.org/uploads/documents/tpyoungpeopleinlondonabortionandrepeatabortion.pdf;  ‘Risk: Young Women and Sexual Decision-Making’ in Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research (2006); Hoggart, L. and Vegeris, S. (2008) ‘Lone parents and the challenge to make work pay’. In J. Strelitz and R. Lister, Why Money Matters (2008 Save the Children); ‘Young women, sexual behaviour and sexual decision-making’ in eds. Thom, B., Sales, R. and J. Pearce, Growing Up with Risk, (2007 The Policy Press) ‘Sexual Health’ in International Encyclopedia of Social Policy, eds. Fitzpatrick, T., Kwon, H., Manning, N., Midgley, J. and Pascall, G. (2006 Routledge).

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