Reconceptualizing Exiting and Career Development in Sex Work

Larissa Sandy is an associate professor in Criminology at the University of Nottingham. As a British Academy Innovation fellow, she co-collaborated on creating a crime reporting system for sex workers in Nottingham and is the author of Women and Sex Work in Cambodia: Blood, Sweat and Tears (2014). Petrea Nes-Iadicola works in a Melbourne-based program supporting sex workers. Petrea has developed peer-led spaces, and with over twenty years’ experience, her research and advocacy focus on reducing stigma, strengthening inclusive practice, and ensuring lived experience is recognised within services. As a neurodivergent advocate, she is committed to building bridges between academic and peer spaces and valuing diverse knowledges and lived realities. Daisy Matthews is a lecturer at Nottingham Trent University. Her research focuses on religious/spiritual sex workers and she works on two research projects Working Together to Remove Barriers for Street-based Sex Workers (Huddersfield and Leeds) and Creating Opportunities for Sex Worker Justice (Nottingham, with Larissa).