Dr Charlotte Jones

Lecturer in Sociology

Criminology, Sociology and Social Policy

charlotte.jones2@swansea.ac.uk

Basic Welsh Speaker

Office - 327A
Third Floor
Keir Hardie Building
Singleton Campus

Available For Postgraduate Supervision

Research Links

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7348-4662

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About

Charlotte’s interests lie in gender, sexuality, disability and health, particularly the intersections of these areas. Her main line of research focuses on the theorisation and medicalisation of sex. This work explores the experiences of people with variations in sex characteristics (VSCs) or intersex traits, with an emphasis on recognition, care, and justice.

Charlotte joined Swansea in 2022 as a Lecturer in Sociology. Prior to this, she was a Research Fellow at the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health at the University of Exeter (2019-2022). During this time, Charlotte led three co-created research projects: one exploring new ways of thinking about in/fertility, variations of sex characteristics, and the life course (Reprofutures); a second addressing fears of viral transmission and the impact of new hygiene measures on hospitality workers during the Covid-19 pandemic (Beers, Burgers + Bleach); and a third project on LGBTQIA+ loneliness and belonging, where she worked with playwright, Natalie McGrath, to stage an original theatrical production (The Beat of Our Hearts). Charlotte was awarded an AHRC EDI Fellowship to complete this work.

Charlotte has also held research positions at the Usher Institute at the University of Edinburgh (2018-2019) and Brunel University (2016-2018). Prior to this, she was Research Fellow on a series of AHRC-funded projects known as Around the Toilet (2015-2018). This work critically examined notions of (in)accessibility by considering gender and disability in the context of the toilet. The team won an NCPPE Engage Award for this project in 2016.

Charlotte is a member of the Editorial board for The Sociological Review, and a co-founder of the Queer Disability Studies Network, an international collaboration between students, academics, and activists, focusing on issues at the intersections of queer/trans and disability/crip studies.

Areas Of Expertise

Variations of sex characteristics (VSCs) and intersex studies
Gender, feminism and social justice
Sex and embodiment
Sexuality, LGBT+, and queer studies
Critical disability studies
Health, diagnosis, and medicalisation
Toilet politics

Career Highlights

Teaching Interests

Social Theory

Gender and feminism

Sex, sexuality and queer studies

Social movements and social justice

Qualitative methods

Critical sociologies of disability, health, and illness

Research Award Highlights

Publications

Research Highlights

All Research

Journal Articles

Jones, C., White, L., Slater, J., & Pluquailec, J. (2024). Hospitality Work as Social Reproduction: Embodied and Emotional Labour during COVID-19. Sociology, 58(2), 471-488.
https://doi.org/10.1177/00380385231189190, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa63843
Humphrey, H., Slater, J., Fountain, E., & Jones, C. (2023). Building a Community for Queer Disability Studies: Lessons from the Snail. Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 12(1), 1-26.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa63266
https://cjds.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cjds/article/view/969
Vytniorgu, R., Cooper, F., Jones, C., & Barreto, M. (2023). Loneliness and belonging in narrative environments. Emotion, Space and Society, 46, 100938
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2023.100938, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa62682
Jones, C. (2022). The harms of medicalisation: intersex, loneliness and abandonment. Feminist Theory, 23(1), 39-60.
https://doi.org/10.1177/14647001211062740, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa61309
Cooper, F. & Jones, C. (2022). Co-production for or against the university: student loneliness and the commodification of impact in COVID-19. Qualitative Research Journal, 22(1), 81-95.
https://doi.org/10.1108/qrj-02-2021-0016, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa61308
Slater, J. & Jones, C. (2021). Toilet Signs as Border Markers: Exploring Disabled People's Access to Space. International Journal of Disability and Social Justice, 1(1)
https://doi.org/10.13169/intljofdissocjus.1.1.0050, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa61311
Jones, C., Clabburn, O., Hillier, M., & Thomas, F. (2021). Couples and Cancer. Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal, 21(4)
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa61320
Jones, C., Chappell, A., & Alldred, P. (2021). Feminist education for university staff responding to disclosures of sexual violence: a critique of the dominant model of staff development. Gender and Education, 33(2), 121-137.
https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2019.1649639, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa61316
Jones, C., Young, I., & Boydell, N. (2020). The People vs the NHS: Biosexual Citizenship and Hope in Stories of PrEP Activism. Somatechnics, 10(2), 172-194.
https://doi.org/10.3366/soma.2020.0312, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa61312
Jones, C. & Slater, J. (2020). The toilet debate: Stalling trans possibilities and defending ‘women’s protected spaces’. The Sociological Review, 68(4), 834-851.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0038026120934697, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa61313
Jones, C. (2020). Intersex, infertility and the future: early diagnoses and the imagined life course. Sociology of Health & Illness, 42(1), 143-156.
https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12990, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa61317
Slater, J., Jones, C., & Procter, L. (2019). Troubling school toilets: resisting discourses of ‘development’ through a critical disability studies and critical psychology lens. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 40(3), 412-423.
https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2017.1316237, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa61318
Slater, J., Jones, C., & Procter, L. (2018). School toilets: queer, disabled bodies and gendered lessons of embodiment. Gender and Education, 30(8), 951-965.
https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2016.1270421, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa61319

Book Chapters

Jones, C. (2022). ‘This Is What I Am and Who I Am’: Exploring Authorship and Ethics in Intersex Research and Reflective Diaries. In Megan Walker (Ed.), Interdisciplinary and Global Perspectives on Intersex (pp. 89-105). Springer International Publishing
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91475-2_6, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa61310
Jones, C., Slater, J., Cleasby, S., Kemp, G., Lisney, E., & Rennie, S. (2019). Pissed Off! Disability activists fighting for toilet access in the UK. In Maria Berghs, Tsitsi Chataika, Yahya El-Lahib, Kudakwashe Dube (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Disability Activism (pp. 219-231). Routledge
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351165082-18, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa61314

Other Research Outputs

Kneale, D., French, R., Spandler, H., Young, I., Purcell, C., Boden, Z., Brown, S., Callwood, D., Carr, S., Dymock, A., Eastham, R., Gabb, J., Henley, J., Jones, C., McDermott, E., Mkhwanazi, N., Ravenhill, J., Reavey, P., Scott, R...., & Tingay, K. (2019). Conducting sexualities research: an outline of emergent issues and case studies from ten Wellcome-funded projects
https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.15283.1, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa61315

Supervision

Technolegau Drawsryweddol: Exploring transgender digital inequality in Wales (current)

PhD

Other supervisor: Dr Troy Astarte
Intersectionality and sex work (current)

PhD

Other supervisor: Dr Sam Hanks

Taught Modules

PPS112 Sociology: The Classics

This module introduces students to key thinkers and theoretical orientations that have impacted both sociological thought and society itself from the Enlightenment to the mid-twentieth century. Using biographical sketches, historical vignettes, and applications to historical and contemporary events, the module aims to acquaint students with the history of sociological thought and its significance to understanding both the present and the past.
PPS113 Sociology: Contemporary Controversies

This module will introduce you to some of the key ideas, debates, and concerns that have animated sociologists from the mid-twentieth century to the present. Over the next few weeks, you will become familiar with the ways that contemporary sociological thought is attempting to grapple with key issues relevant to society today. Following on from The Classics module last semester, we'll consider how theorists continue to explore the possibility of social order, social reproduction, and social transformation. We'll place a number of the most well-known contemporary social theorists in relation to each other and analyse their works, whilst considering the historical contexts in which they emerged: the rapidly changing circumstances and unprecedented challenges of the early twenty-first century.
PPS319 Social Movements, Social Policy and Social Change

The rise of Occupy, Black Lives Matter and Extinction Rebellion are recent examples of a long tradition of social movements seeking to bring about changes in policy and wider society. In this module, social movements are seen to arise from bottom-up grievances and challenge dominant prevailing structures and cultures at national and global levels. This module explores theoretical perspectives and concepts regarding social movements, from classical approaches to 'new' social movement theory. Alongside this, we will explore empirical evidence drawn from specific social movements, including the dimensions and dynamics of social movements, from their emergence to their strategies, structures, and consequences. To consider these themes and concepts in practice, we will discuss a range of case studies, including anti-racist, feminist, disability and environmentalist social movements, amongst others.
SPC302 Bodies in Society

How is the body given social significance? What kinds of knowledge or experience are attributed to the body? How do we seek to gain `control¿ over our own bodies, and how are our bodies controlled, disciplined or regulated by others? What role does the body play in our construction of identity and the self? And how do bodies themselves create meaning? Our own bodies and the bodies of others are a routine and often relatively mundane feature of our everyday lives, but they also play a fundamental role in how we understand, feel about, and engage with society. The body ¿ both a product of our society and culture, but also a material and physical presence ¿ is a key and rapidly changing theoretical field. In this module we¿ll study the importance and significance of the body for sociologists by exploring a range of empirical case studies and examples. Each week will introduce a different context for our discussion of embodied sociology, from scientific studies and new technologies, to gender practices and racialisation. This will help us to apply these key theories to a range of sociological fields, and to consider the role of the body in our own lives and research practice.