Pam Lowe

Languages & Social Sciences
Senior Lecturer, Sociology and Policy
Centre for Critical Inquiry into Society and Culture (CCISC)

United Kingdom

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Personal profile

General

Pam Lowe joined Aston in September 2005. Most of her teaching and research is centred around women’s reproductive and sexual health, with a particular interest in pregnancy, abortion and early parenting. Recently she has worked on a number of projects including on the sexual health of online sex workers and young people and sexual consent. She is currently engaged in a long term ethnographic study of abortion debates in public spaces.

Research Interests

Sociology of Health and Illness, particularly women’s reproductive and sexual health
Parenting cultures
Sexualities
Feminist Theory
Qualitative methodology

Teaching Activity

Pam usually teaches on the following modules

Pregnancy and politics
Kith and Kin
Organising for Social Justice

Qualifications

BA (Hons)/ MA/ PhD, Warwick

Administrative Roles

Sociology and Policy Senior Tutor

Contact Details

Room: MB 735b
Phone: 0121 204 3807
Email:p.k.lowe@aston.ac.uk
Fax: 0121 204 3766

Keywords

HM Sociology
women's reproductive health
domestic and sexual violence
parenting cultures
Feminist Theories

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sleep Social Sciences

mitozolomide Medicine & Life Sciences

contraception Social Sciences

temozolomide Medicine & Life Sciences

abortion Social Sciences

neurosciences Social Sciences

Internet Medicine & Life Sciences

newspaper Social Sciences

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Research Output 2001 2019

36 Article
5 Chapter (peer-reviewed)
1 Anthology
1 Book
3 More

(Re)imagining the ‘backstreet’: Anti-abortion campaigning against decriminalisation in the UK

Lowe, P., 1 Jun 2019, In : Sociological research online. 24, 2, p. 203-218 16 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access

File

criminalization

abortion

campaign

narrative

liberalization

Anti-Abortion Clinic Activism, Civil Inattention, and the Problem of Gendered Harassment

Lowe, P. & Hayes, G. A., 1 Apr 2019, In : Sociology. 53, 2, p. 330-346 17 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access

File

abortion

service provider

privacy

content analysis

evidence

Austerity in a disadvantaged West Midlands neighbourhood: Everyday experiences of families and family support professionals

Jones, D., Lowe, P. & West, K., 4 Apr 2019, In : Critical Social Policy.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access

File

everyday experience

resident

deprivation

social class

everyday life

'On the Wet Side of the Womb’: The construction of mothers in anti-abortion activism in England and Wales

Lowe, P. & Page, S-J., 1 May 2019, In : European Journal of Women's Studies. 26, 2, p. 165-180 16 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access

File

abortion

motherhood

women's role

discourse

baby

Pregnancy prevention and contraceptive preferences of online sex workers in the UK

Lowe, P., Pilcher, K., Pattison, H. M., Whittaker, V., Robertson, C. & Ross, J., 15 Oct 2019, In : The European Journal of Contraception and Reproductive Health Care .

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

contraceptive

pregnancy

worker

Internet

contraception