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Dr Fairleigh Gilmour

Fairleigh GilmourBA(Hons), PhD (Monash)

Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Gender Studies

Contact

Room 5C23, Richardson Building
Tel +64 3 479 9019
Email fairleigh.gilmour@otago.ac.nz

Fairleigh’s research interests include sex work governance; race, gender and class in media representations of crime; and prison education.

Teaching

I co-ordinate and teach:

I teach sections of:

Postgraduate supervision

I will not be accepting further applications for graduate supervision until July 2023.

  • Media representations of crime
  • Gender and social media
  • Sex work
  • Prison education

Current and recent students

Ola Kattoura PhD

Arab and Jewish Battered Women in Shelters

Bell Murphy PhD

Empowerment beyond the neoliberal self: An autoethnography of a feminist self defence teacher in Aotearoa

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Publications

Gilmour, F. E., & Alessi, L. (2022). Volunteering in an Aotearoa New Zealand prison: Expanding sociological criminal justice learning. Journal of Criminal Justice Education. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/10511253.2021.2019289

Gibbs, A., & Gilmour, F. E. (2022). Conclusions. In A. Gibbs & F. E. Gilmour (Eds.), Women, crime and justice in context: Contemporary perspectives in feminist criminology from Australia and New Zealand. (pp. 253-259). Abingdon, UK: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429316975

Gilmour, F. E. (2022). Women, crime and the media. In A. Gibbs & F. E. Gilmour (Eds.), Women, crime and justice in context: Contemporary perspectives in feminist criminology from Australia and New Zealand. (pp. 87-101). Abingdon, UK: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429316975

Gilmour, F. E. (2022). Feminist criminology. In A. Gibbs & F. E. Gilmour (Eds.), Women, crime and justice in context: Contemporary perspectives in feminist criminology from Australia and New Zealand. (pp. 13-26). Abingdon, UK: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429316975

Gilmour, F. E., & Gibbs, A. (2022). Introduction. In A. Gibbs & F. E. Gilmour (Eds.), Women, crime and justice in context: Contemporary perspectives in feminist criminology from Australia and New Zealand. (pp. 1-12). Abingdon, UK: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429316975

Gibbs, A., & Gilmour, F. E. (Eds.). (2022). Women, crime and justice in context: Contemporary perspectives in feminist criminology from Australia and New Zealand. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 296p. doi: 10.4324/9780429316975

Edited Book - Research

Gibbs, A., & Gilmour, F. E. (2022). Conclusions. In A. Gibbs & F. E. Gilmour (Eds.), Women, crime and justice in context: Contemporary perspectives in feminist criminology from Australia and New Zealand. (pp. 253-259). Abingdon, UK: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429316975

Chapter in Book - Research

Gilmour, F. E. (2022). Feminist criminology. In A. Gibbs & F. E. Gilmour (Eds.), Women, crime and justice in context: Contemporary perspectives in feminist criminology from Australia and New Zealand. (pp. 13-26). Abingdon, UK: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429316975

Chapter in Book - Research

Gilmour, F. E. (2022). Image-based sexual abuse, legal responses and online activism in the Aotearoa New Zealand context. In A. Powell, A. Flynn & L. Sugiura (Eds.), Palgrave handbook of gendered violence and technology]. (pp. 673-691). Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-83734-1_33

Chapter in Book - Research

Gilmour, F. E. (2022). Women, crime and the media. In A. Gibbs & F. E. Gilmour (Eds.), Women, crime and justice in context: Contemporary perspectives in feminist criminology from Australia and New Zealand. (pp. 87-101). Abingdon, UK: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429316975

Chapter in Book - Research

Gilmour, F. E., & Gibbs, A. (2022). Introduction. In A. Gibbs & F. E. Gilmour (Eds.), Women, crime and justice in context: Contemporary perspectives in feminist criminology from Australia and New Zealand. (pp. 1-12). Abingdon, UK: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429316975

Chapter in Book - Research

Gilmour, F. (2021). Representing crime: Shaping understandings, building hegemony. In E. Stanley, T. Bradley & S. Monod de Froideville (Eds.), The Aotearoa handbook of criminology. (pp. 14-22). Auckland, New Zealand: Auckland University Press.

Chapter in Book - Research

Gilmour, F. (2020). The impacts of decriminalisation for trans sex workers. In L. Armstrong & G. Abel (Eds.), Sex work and the New Zealand model: Decriminalisation and social change. (pp. 89-112). Bristol, UK: Bristol University Press. doi: 10.2307/j.ctv1453kvn.10

Chapter in Book - Research

Gilmour, F., & Vitis, L. (2017). Anti-rape narratives and masculinity in online space: A case study of two young men's responses to the Steubenville rape case. In M. Segrave & L. Vitis (Eds.), Gender, technology and violence. (pp. 79-99). Abingdon, UK: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315441160

Chapter in Book - Research

Gilmour, F. E., & Alessi, L. (2022). Volunteering in an Aotearoa New Zealand prison: Expanding sociological criminal justice learning. Journal of Criminal Justice Education. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/10511253.2021.2019289

Journal - Research Article

Gilmour, F. E. (2020). Careers in the Australian sex industry: Exploring life narratives through metaphor. Journal of Sociology, 56(3), 297-313. doi: 10.1177/1440783319893462

Journal - Research Article

Brickell, C., & Gilmour, F. (2019). The dialectics of motherhood in 1950s New Zealand. Journal of Family History, 44(4), 413-430. doi: 10.1177/0363199019855107

Journal - Research Article

Ham, J., & Gilmour, F. (2017). ‘We all have one’: Exit plans as a professional strategy in sex work. Work, Employment & Society, 31(5), 748-763. doi: 10.1177/0950017016666198

Journal - Research Article

Vitis, L., & Gilmour, F. (2017). Dick pics on blast: A woman’s resistance to online sexual harassment using humour, art and Instagram. Crime, Media, Culture, 13(3), 335-355. doi: 10.1177/1741659016652445

Journal - Research Article

Gilmour, F. E. (2016). Work conditions and job mobility in the Australian indoor sex industry. Sociological Research Online, 21(4). doi: 10.5153/sro.4166

Journal - Research Article

Gilmour, F. (2013). The girl in the cellar: Media representations of Natascha Kampusch. Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 25(2), 645-666.

Journal - Research Article

Gilmour, F. (2018). [Review of the book My body, my business: New Zealand sex workers in an era of change]. Journal of New Zealand Studies, 28, 153-155. doi: 10.26686/jnzs.v0iNS28.5435

Journal - Research Other

Gilmour, F. E., & Gibson, K. (2021). Shifting trends and discourses in women's imprisonment in Aotearoa New Zealand. Proceedings of the Sociological Association of Aotearoa New Zealand (SAANZ) Conference: Sociology in the 21st Century: Wellbeing, Engagement and Sustainability. (pp. 50). Lincoln, New Zealand: Department of Tourism, Sport and Society, Lincoln University. Retrieved from https://www.saanz.net/saanz-conference-2021

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Gilmour, F. (2017). From decriminalisation to professionalisation: The limits of legal frameworks in understanding worker rights. Proceedings of the Sociological Association of Aotearoa, New Zealand (SAANZ) Conference: Respect Existence or Expect Resistance. (pp. 42). Retrieved from http://www.otago.ac.nz/saanz

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Gilmour, F. (2016). Exploring work conditions and mobility in the Australian sex industry. Proceedings of the Space, Race, Bodies II Conference: Sovereignty and Migration in a Carceral Age. (pp. 33-34). Retrieved from http://www.spaceracebodies.com/

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Vitis, L., & Gilmour, F. (2015). Dick pics on blast: Women's resistance to online sexual harassment using humour, art and instagram. Proceedings of the 3rd International Crime, Justice and Social Democracy Conference. (pp. 59). Retrieved from http://docplayer.net/1752851-Crime-justice-and-social-democracy-program-of-the-3rd-international-conference-2015.html

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Gilmour, F. (2014). Transitions in and out of sex work: Surveillance, safety and mobility. Proceedings of the 8th Annual Australian and New Zealand Critical Criminology Conference. (pp. 17). Retrieved from profiles.arts.monash.edu.au/asher-flynn/files/2012/06/Final-Program.pdf

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Gilmour, F. (2016, October). God's place in hell: Spiritual and secular philosophies in alternative approaches to justice. Verbal presentation at the Is Prison Obsolete? Conference, Brisbane, Australia.

Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Gilmour, F. (2015, April). Transitions in and out of sex work: Regulatory schema, work conditions and career trajectories in the Australian sex industry. Verbal presentation at the Troubling Prostitution Conference: Exploring Intersections of Sex, Intimacy and Labour, Vienna, Austria.

Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Gilmour, F. E. (2016). Sex work careers: Career trajectories in the Australian indoor sex industry (PhD). Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Retrieved from http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/1263568

Awarded Doctoral Degree

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