Belinda Brooks Gordon

Belinda is a Lecturer in Centre for Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck College, and Co-Convenor of the Law & Psychology at UCL.

Her main research interests address psychological and social policy questions on sexuality, gender, and the law, and legislation against the behaviour of men and women involved in prostitution. Her research on sex work and the sex industry addresses the socio-cultural, psychological, philosophical, and human rights issues which surround prostitution, the clients who pay for it, and the officers who police it. It is carried out with co-operation of the Metropolitan Police Clubs and Vice Unit. A second strand of her research involves the investigation into psychological interventions for sexual offenders.

Ongoing scholarly activity includes membership of the Cambridge Socio-Legal Group, an interdisciplinary research group. She recently wrote Sexuality Repositioned: Diversity and the Law.

Belinda supervises PhD students researching issues around prostitution, and has written many academic papers, a recent title being Prostitutes' Clients, Ken Livingstone, and a New Trojan Horse. Belinda spoke at a 2005 Cambridge Union debate in favour of prostitution.