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Our Approach
We are committed to research that is rigorous, reflexive, and community-centred. This means foregrounding lived experience in research design, engaging meaningfully with the communities our work concerns, and producing knowledge that is both conceptually sophisticated and practically actionable.
We encourage a co-design philosophy across research activities, working in genuine partnership with direct and indirect stakeholders in the sociotechnical context in which sextech is deployed. We believe that the people most affected by a technology are essential partners in understanding, evaluating, and shaping it.
We are an independent initiative. It is not formally affiliated with, endorsed by, or hosted by any university or institution.
Our Values
Empowerment: We centre the autonomy, rights, and self-determination of the communities that research engages with, particularly those who have historically been excluded from both sexual culture and technological design.
Rigour: We hold ourselves to the highest standards of inquiry, ethical practice, and methodological transparency.
Transformation: We are committed to research that does not merely describe the world but contributes to changing it by breaking stigma, informing policy, and improving practice.
Openness: We are committed to knowledge translation and public engagement, ensuring that research findings reach beyond academia to the practitioners, policymakers, and communities who can act on them.
Research Themes
Ethics and Governance
Ethics and Governance
What ethical frameworks are appropriate for the design, provision, and use of sextech in different settings? How should consent, privacy, and safety be approached in different contexts?
Design and Technology
Design and Technology
What are the design requirements for sextech that genuinely serves different communities? What does state-of-the-art development currently offer? Where are the current gaps?
Practice and Education
Practice and Education
How do stakeholders understand, navigate, and engage with sextech? What are the implications for policy and professional practice?
Lived Experience
Lived Experience
What are the perspectives, needs, priorities, and concerns of different communities of users who use or might use sextech? How does sextech intersection with gender, sexuality, age, and other dimensions of identity?
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