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Dr Kate Hardy

Research Officer

After completing my PhD thesis on sex worker organising in Argentina at Queen Mary, University of London, in the Geography Department, I took up a post in the School of Sociology and Social Policy in March 2010. I worked on on an ESRC funded study on the regulation and integration of lap dancing into the night-time economy with Dr Teela Sanders.

I am currently working on the ESRC funded study on cosmetic surgery tourism with Professor Ruth Holliday.

Research Interests

Alongside sex work my research academic interests include issues surrounding trade union organizing, precarity, informal work, the body, women's movements, gender, agency and resistance. These are reflected in an edited collection Sociologies of Sex Work and a number of other publications.

Teaching

My teaching interests lie in the fields of sex work, gender and development, work and employment, sexuality, and qualitative research methods. Currently, I assist in teaching two level 3 courses. My teaching is widely disciplinary and I have taught in Sociology and Geography departments, as well Management and Business Schools.

Key Publications

Hardy, K., Kingston, S. and Sanders, T. (eds.) (2010) New Sociologies of Sex Work (Ashgate).

Hardy, K. (2010) ‘(Sex) Working Class Subjects: Integrating Sex Workers in the Argentine Labour Movement’ International Labour and Working Class History 77 (1): 89-108.

Hardy, K. (2010) 'If you shut up, they kill you: sex worker resistance in Argentina' in New Sociologies of Sex Work in Hardy, K., Kingston, S. and Sanders, T. (eds.) (Ashgate).

Tornquist, M. and Hardy, K. (2010) ‘Taxi dancers: tango labour and commercialised intimacy in Argentina’ in New Sociologies of Sex Work in Hardy, K., Kingston, S. and Sanders, T. (eds.) (Ashgate).

Hardy, K. (2008) ‘Sex Workers Unite!’ Developments 41 (DfID, London).

Hardy, K. (2007) ‘Rethinking Action: Negotiations of Space and the Body in the Struggle of AMMAR’ Gunnarsson, L., Jónasdóttir, A.G. and Karlsson, G. (eds) Gexcel Work in Progress Report II: Proceedings from GEXcel Theme 1: Gender, Sexuality and Global Change (GExcel, Linkoping and Orebro).