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Dr Elizabeth Agnew

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Dr Elizabeth Agnew

School of Law

My work focuses on peer-based harmful behaviours (including sexual behaviors) and the regulatory challenges presented for legal and other professionals. I am particularly interested in how young people negotiate consent, especially within an online setting. I am also interested in the relationship between consent and coercion and how young people identify and differentiate between explorative and exploitative behaviours.

 

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  • e.agnew@qub.ac.uk
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Research Interests

Open to PhD applications in:

  • Harmful behaviours (including harmful sexual behaviours) among young people
  • Issues of consent
  • Law reform in the area of sexual offences
  • Responses to youth based harmful behaviours
  • Youth Justice

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Public outreach & key achievements

  • Produced a policy briefing paper from an ESRC funded project on young people and sexual consent in Northern Ireland (specifically within the context of ‘sexting’); distributed to key stakeholders: http://qpol.qub.ac.uk/sexting-consent-young-people-regulatory-challenges/
  • Published a short blog in The Conversation: https://theconversation.com/teenage-sexting-were-letting-young-people-down-by-not-talking-about-it-107054
  • Keynote speaker at Nexus NI Annual Conference (2023)

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