Kym Atkinson

Dr Kym Atkinson is a Lecturer in Criminology at the Sheffield Institute of Law and Justice, part of the College of Social Sciences and Arts at Sheffield Hallam University since March 2021. Her research focuses on gender, state power, and sexual violence, particularly analyzing institutional responses to gendered harms in university settings.

Her doctoral thesis explored women students' experiences of sexual violence and institutional accountability. Key research interests include feminist critiques of institutional power, discursive constructions of sexual violence, and state responses to gender-based harm.

Recent publications examine feminist praxis against state injustices, discursive frameworks of sexual violence on campuses, and transformative academic activism. She co-edited Feminist Responses to Injustices of the State and Its Institutions: Politics, Intervention, Resistance (2022), addressing systemic power dynamics.

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