BSc PhD (Alta) MSc (Guelph)
Professor in Sociology
Contact Details
Room 6C21, Richardson Building
Tel +64 3 479 8736
Email melanie.beres@otago.ac.nz
My core area of interest is in sexual violence prevention. In particular I am interested in understand how people give consent to sex, and how we might be able to use this information to develop effective educational programming. I am also interested more broadly in constructions of sexuality including queer sexualities. I engage with both qualitative and quantitative methods.
Teaching
I co-ordinate and teach:
Postgraduate supervision
- Sexual violence prevention
- Consent
- Sexualities
Current Students
Ola Kattoura PhD
Arab and Jewish Battered Women in Shelters
Seamyi ChungPhD
Anti-aging practices of older Korean women in New Zealand
Mahfuzur RahmanPhD
The causes of plateau in fertility transition in Bangladesh
Nishanthi PereraPhD
Sexual health of international students from South Asia
Bell MurphyPhD
Empowerment beyond the neoliberal self: An autoethnography of a feminist self defence teacher in Aotearoa