Kaye Wellings

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Kaye Wellings is an active Sexual and Reproductive Health educator and has worked within this field of study for over 20 years. She has a strong interest in evaluation research, particularly in relation to preventive intervention and has assessed major national and international sexual health programmes, including AIDS preventive strategies in European countries and the English government's Teenage Pregnancy Strategy. [1] Much of her working life has been spent researching sensitive topics, including not only sexual behaviour but also risk practices relating to drug use and in prison populations and the taboo of birth contraceptives in her early years.

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Early and current career

After graduation, Wellings moved to London as a public health and social scientist. For some time, Wellings worked in journalism with journal New Society until continuing on to work with the Family Planning Association in health policy research. The next few years brought on the continuing HIV/AIDS epidemic in which Wellings monitored responses amongst the public as Senior Research Officer at the Health Education Authority (HEA). There was some conflict with methods used to handle and distribute research to the media, where Wellings and other researchers had one idea of presentation while politicians had another. “My experience there made me seek a safe haven in academia, where I could tell the story as it was, without having to suppress data or manipulate angles”, states Wellings. [2]

Currently, Wellings is a Professor of Sexual and Reproductive Health Research at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) [3] and co-leader of the third British National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles.

Wellings has co-written several research papers describing trends and current patterns in sexual practices with opposite-sex partners among men and women aged 16–24 years in Britain, noting that more and younger people are participating in sexual practices in more diverse ways. [4]

Accomplishments

1987-A founder of the first National Survey or Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles. Wellings is a member of the WHO's Gender and Rights Advisory Panel and Human Reproduction Scientific Advisory Group. [5]

Awards

Fellow ad eundem of the Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists (2003). [6] This is awarded to those who have contributed to the advancement of the science or practice of O&G, though not members of the college.

Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (2017). [7] [8]

Published works

Sexual Function Problems And Help Seeking Behaviour In Britain: National Probability Sample Survey (co-written). [9]

Wellings, K., Mitchell, K., & Collumbien, M. (Eds.) (2012). Sexual Health: A Public Health Perspective. Maidenhead, Berkshire: Open University Press. ISBN   9780335244829

Wellings is the co-leader of the National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles.

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References

  1. ↑ "Kaye Wellings". The Conversation. Retrieved 2018-02-15.
  2. ↑ Lane, Richard (2013-11-30). "Kaye Wellings: pioneering figure in sexual health". The Lancet. 382 (9907): 1773. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(13)62346-6. ISSN   0140-6736. PMID   24286783. S2CID   8753572.
  3. ↑ "The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine". LSHTM. Retrieved 2018-02-15.
  4. ↑ "Millennials 'experimenting more in bed'". BBC News. 2017-11-20. Retrieved 2018-02-15.
  5. ↑ "Changes in young people's sexual behaviour – for better or worse?". www.ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-02-15.
  6. ↑ "Fellow ad eundem". Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists. Retrieved 7 March 2018.
  7. ↑ "Sixty-nine leading social scientists conferred as Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences". Academy of Social Sciences. Retrieved 7 March 2018.
  8. ↑ "Forty-seven leading social scientists conferred as Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences |". www.acss.org.uk. Retrieved 2018-10-16.
  9. ↑ Mercer, Catherine H.; Fenton, Kevin A.; Johnson, Anne M.; Wellings, Kaye; MacDowall, Wendy; McManus, Sally; Nanchahal, Kiran; Erens, Bob (2003). "Sexual Function Problems And Help Seeking Behaviour In Britain: National Probability Sample Survey". BMJ: British Medical Journal. 327 (7412): 426–427. doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7412.426. JSTOR   25455330. PMC   181259 . PMID   12933730.
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