Beyond the Gaze is participatory research project looking at the practices, regulation and safety of internet based sex workers! It's UK wide, is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, is being carried out over 3 years and includes sex workers of all genders. It will be the largest, most important study, of this sector of the industry to date in the UK, so a good opportunity to have your say.  As this is an important study it will  be used  to  inform policy, so it?s important the views & experiences of  a group of sex workers, whose needs/working styles and conditions, which have tended to be ignored, are collected in this research. The research will  produce in-depth information about independent sex work and escorting  which have so far been covered only by smaller-scale studies.
 
Research Team: It?s being carried out by a team of researchers at Leicester (formerly with Leeds) and Strathclyde Universities & the team includes sex worker peer researchers. For more info about the project go to our website http://beyond-the-gaze.com/    You can sign up for an enewsletter
 
Supporters: National Ugly Mugs are a partner in the research and SAAFE are supporting us by letting us have a  thread on the forum. Thanks!! We hope it?s one of the ways sex workers can get involved and comment over the next  couple of years and a way we can let SAAFE forum members know about other opportunities for getting involved and the activities taking place as part of the project.
   
Take Part in an Interview:  We are looking for people, of all genders, all nationalities who work as independent escorts in the UK to take part in a research interview.  To arrange an interview or get further information about what is involved please email, text or whatsapp message one of our researchers ? Rosie Campbell at rc377@le.ac.uk   mobile: 07834 148333 or Stewart Cunningham at stewart.cunningham@strath.ac.uk  mobile:  07834148334  We will arrange a time that suits you to be interviewed by one of the team. The interview will look how you use the  internet in your work and  ask about wider working practices & safety.  Interviews can be over Skype, phone, whatever suits you! Interviews will take an hour and there is a ?20 thank you Amazon voucher.

The interview will look how you use the  internet in your work and  ask about wider working practices & safety.  Interviews can be over Skype, phone or face to face, whatever suits you! Interviews will take an hour and there is a ?20 thank you Amazon voucher for your time.
 
Confidentiality: We know how important privacy and confidentiality are for people in the sex industry. Taking part in an interview will be confidential & anonymous, no personal details that could identify you will be recorded, no names, phone numbers, emails etc. We work to strict ethical guidelines and if we didn?t would get into trouble.

Thanks to those who have already done an interview for us!! We massively appreciate your contribution to the research!


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Hi All,
We're consulting internet based sex workers about what they think we should be asking about in this participatory action research project about the working practices and safety of internet based sex workers.  We are putting together the interview guide for the 80 interviews we'll carry out with internet based sex workers. What are the main questions you think we should be asking in order to gather sex workers, experiences and views, to collect info about how sex workers are using the internet, the benefits it has, the down sides? What are the things you think we should be asking that could  better help inform policy makers about the sector?  Post you thoughts in this thread, PM me on SAAFE or email me if you prefer at:  beyondthegaze@leeds.ac.uk 
Thanks Rosie

Applied for! Wish me luck ladies! Peer researcher eh - wonder how that would effect my tax though! xxx

Good to hear someone has applied! Deadline is 16th November so still time! Rosie

Hi Folks,
We're still looking for people to contribute to the study & do a research interview!   We are looking for people, of all genders, all nationalities who work as independent escorts in the UK to take part in a research interview.  To arrange an interview or get further information about what is involved please email, text or whatsapp message one of our researchers  Stewart Cunningham at stewart.cunningham@strath.ac.uk  mobile:  07834148334 or email Rosie Campbell at r.campbell@leeds.ac.uk  mobile:07834148333 We will arrange a time that suits you to be interviewed by one of the team. The interview will look how you use the  internet in your work and  ask about wider working practices & safety.  Interviews can be over Skype, phone, whatever suits you! Interviews will take an hour and there is a �20 thank you Amazon voucher.

The interview will look how you use the  internet in your work and  ask about wider working practices & safety.  Interviews can be over Skype, phone or face to face, whatever suits you! Interviews will take an hour and there is a �20 thank you Amazon voucher for your time.
 
Confidentiality: We know how important privacy and confidentiality are for people in the sex industry. Taking part in an interview will be confidential & anonymous, no personal details that could identify you will be recorded, no names, phone numbers, emails etc. We work to strict ethical guidelines and if we didn�t would get into trouble.

Hope to hear from some of you soon!  Thanks to those who have helped so far!
Teela, Stewart & Rosie

A BIG THANK YOU you to all who have helped us so far and contributed to BTG by taking part in a research interview!

We?ve have had such a fabulous response from people in the industry that we have reached our target for the first phase of interviews with sex workers. We have had people from all over the UK, all genders, people working  in escorting,  BDSM work, phone sex chat & camming help us out. People on SAAFE have been particularly responsive. We may be doing some more interviews  later in the year to look in more depth at particular issues, we will post and tweet about this if we do.

From October 2016  we will be carrying out an online survey of internet based sex workers and really want this to be the largest survey of the sector to date. Look out for calls to take part! We will of course let people on SAAFE know about the survey.

We'll also be posting updates and news about the Beyond the Gaze Research here on SAAFE!

If you have any queries about the research at any point you can email me Rosie on rc377@le.ac.uk or call or message me on 07834148333. You can follow us on Twitter  twitter.com/beyondthegaze

Move to University of Leicester for Leeds University Beyond the Gaze Team Members

The members of the Beyond the Gaze Team based at the University of Leeds, Professor Teela Sanders and Rosie Campbell will moved to the Department of Criminology at the University of Leicester on the 1st July 2016! The team members at Strathclyde University Professor Jane Scoular, Stewart Cunningham and Dr Jane Pitcher remain based at Strathclyde. The methodology and work plan of the ?Beyond the Gaze? project will not be affected and will continue as normal and the project is now a collaboration between University of Leicester and University of Strathclyde.

To all who have contributed to the research to date we want you to know that the ethical practice standards and obligations we as a research team work to remain the same,  as do the data storage/ protection standards, with University of  Leicester taking on responsibility  for those.

If you have any queries you can pm us on SAAFE or contact Rosie at: rc3777@le.ac.uk  Stewart Cunningham stewart.cunninghm@strath.ac.uk


Thanks folks  Rosie