Dr Lynda Measor BA (Hons), MSc, PhD
Reader
contact:
Applied Social Science
Falmer
Brighton
BN1 9PH
Telephone: +44 (0)1273 643493
Email: L.Measor@brighton.ac.uk
Research interests
- Deviancy and the criminal justice system
- Gender and education
- Sex education for adolescents
- Teenage pregnancy
- Qualitative research methods
Teaching
- Criminal justice
- Sexuality and Gender
- Research Methods
Additional roles
- Lynda Measor was on the editorial board of Gender and Education from 1989 and was editor of the journal from 1990 - 1993.
Recent publications
Measor, Lynda (2012) Loic Wacquant, gender and cultures of resistance In: Squires, Peter and Lea, John, eds. Criminalisation and advanced marginality: critically exploring the work of Loic Wacquant. The Policy Press, Bristol, UK. ISBN 9781447300014
CAVALCANTI, ROXANA, Goldsmith, Carly, MEASOR, LYNDA and SQUIRES, PETER (2012) Riotous connections? Criminal Justice Matters, 87 (1). pp. 34-35. ISSN 0962-7251
Dentith, Audrey M., Measor, Lynda and O'Malley, Michael P. (2012) The research imagination amid dilemmas of engaging young people in critical participatory work Forum: Qualitative Social Research , 13 (1). pp. 1-17. ISSN 1438-5627
Measor, Lynda, Wilcox, Paula and Frame, Phillip (2012) Transformation or trauma: the experience of transition from school to university In: Hinton-Smith, Tamsin, ed. Widening participation in higher education: casting the net wide? Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke. ISBN 978-0230300613; 0230300618 (In Press)
Cavalcanti, Roxana, Goldsmith, Carlie, Lea, John, Measor, Lynda, Squires, Peter and Wolff, David (2011) Connected communities. Youth and community: connections and disconnections Arts & Humanities Research Council (Connected Communities Programme), Brighton.
Measor, Lynda (2010) Weapons of the weak: Wacquant, gender and cultures of resistance In: Symposium on the work of Wacquant, September 2010, Brighton. (Unpublished)
Measor, Lynda (2009) Condom use and the missing discourse of desire: the view from the girls Education and Health, 27 (4). p. 95. ISSN 0265-1602
Dentith, Audrey M., Measor, Lynda and O'Malley, Michael P. (2009) Stirring dangerous waters: dilemmas for critical participatory research with young people Sociology, 43 (1). pp. 158-168. ISSN 0038-0385
Measor, Lynda (2006) Condom Use - a culture of resistance Journal of Sex Education and Therapy, 6 (4). pp. 393-402. ISSN 1468-1811
Measor, Lynda (2006) Young women, community safety and informal cultures In: Squires, Peter, ed. Community safety: critical perspectives on policy and practice. The Policy Press, Bristol, p. 181. ISBN 9781861347305 ; 1861347294
Measor, Lynda and Fleetham, Mike (2005) Moving to secondary school: advice and activities to support transition Network Education Press, UK. ISBN 978-1855392007
Measor, Lynda and Squires, Peter (2005) Below decks on the flagship: evaluating youth justice In: Taylor, David and Balloch, Susan, eds. The politics of evaluation: participation and policy implementation. The Policy Press, Bristol, UK, pp. 21-49. ISBN 1861346050
Measor, Lynda (2004) Young people's views of sex education: gender, information and knowledge Sex Education: sexuality, society and learning, 4 (2). pp. 153-166. ISSN 1468-1811
Bell, Jo, Clisby, Suzanne, Craig, Gary, Measor, Lynda, Petrie, Stephanie and Stanley, Nicky (2004) Living on the edge: sexual behaviour and young parenthood in rural and seaside areas [Report (for external body)]
Measor, Lynda and Squires, Peter (2001) Breaking in: partnership working, health promotion and prison walls In: Taylor, David, ed. Breaking down barriers: reviewing partnership practice. University of Brighton, Health & Social Policy Research Centre, Brighton. ISBN 978-1901177374; 1901177378
Measor, Lynda and Squires, Peter (2001) Rounding up the usual suspects: police approaches to multi-agency policing In: Balloch, Susan and Taylor, Marilyn, eds. Partnership working: policy and practice. The Policy Press, Bristol, p. 223. ISBN 9781861342201; 1861343477
Conference presentations
2005 - 'Ways of Knowing: the ethics and methodologies of studying young lives' at the 1st International Qualitative Inquiry Conference, University of Illinois, Champaign, Urbana
2005 - Secondary Heads Association Keynote Address to the Conference on School Transfer, Maryatt Hotel, Portsmouth
2006 - 'The ethics and politics of researching vulnerable young people' with Dentith, A. (Univ of Wisconsin) and O'Malley, M. (Univ of Central Florida), the 2nd International Qualitative Inquiry Conference, University of Illinois, Champaign, Urbana
2006 - 'Visiting Lives ethics and researching young people' paper given at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee to graduatefaculty research group
2006 - 'Masculinities and Adolescent Condom Use', paper given at International Sociological Association Conference, Durban, South Africa, July
2006 - 'Stirring Deep waters, the politics of researching young people', with with Dentith, A. (Univ of Wisconsin)and O'Malley, M. (Univ of Central Florida), American Educational Research Conference Chicago, Illinois

