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Chris Haywood

  • Reader in Critical Masculinty Studies School of Arts and Cultures
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  • Twitter: @Dr_Haywood
  • Chris Haywood has been the Director of Research, Director of Education and Director of Postgraduate Studies. He is currently developing an MA Media, Society and Cultural Studies

Chris Haywood is interested in exploring how different conceptual deployments of masculinity shape what we know and are able to know about gender and sexuality. His previous work has included examining different dating practices, including speed dating, online dating, holiday romance, anonymous sex and mobile romance. Alongside this, his research interests include cultural analyses of schooling and education, with an emphasis on the interplay between gender, generation and 'Race' /ethnicity. His current research explores the hidden world of sex clubs. Traditionally called swingers’ clubs, it is estimated that each year in the UK, over a million men and women visit these clubs for anonymous sex. His book, “Sex Club: Recreational Sex, Fantasies and Cultures of Desire” (2022, Palgrave), explores sex club cultures through themes such as power and erotic hierarchies, hypersexualized black bodies, ‘sexually insatiable women’, queer heterosexualities, trans desires, and spaces of non-consent in dangerous, high-risk spaces.