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Dr. Rebecca Hewer is a Lecturer (Chancellor's Fellow) at the University of Edinburgh, working within the Sociology department. Her research focuses on socio-legal regulation of women's bodies, policy-making knowledge production, and feminist utopianism. She specializes in sex-work, violence against women, reproductive governance, and critical discourse analysis. Current projects include examining the UK's two-child limit fiscal policy and developing utopian methodologies for feminist policy innovation.
Education: PhD in Social Policy from the University of Edinburgh (2019); qualified barrister (non-practicing) in England and Wales. She co-leads the GENDER.ED initiative and chairs the Gender and Sexuality Studies Reading Group. Her work bridges legal theory, political science, and feminist critique.
Research Interests:
- Reproductive Politics & Welfare State Governance
- Sex-Work Policy & Discourse Analysis
- Violence Against Women & Girls
- Feminist Utopian Methodologies
- Embryo Donation Ethics
Her publications critically engage with policy certification processes, vulnerability frameworks, and the intersection of law/gender. Current work includes Leverhulme-funded research on rape clause certification practices and collaborative projects on speculative feminist policy design.
