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0845 196 4663
susan.walker@anglia.ac.uk

Qualifications & Membership

• MB BCh (Belfast 1990)
• Diplomate of Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Health (FRSH)
• BA (Hons) Sociology & Women's studies (Anglia Ruskin University 2004)
• MPhil (Sociology) (Cambridge 2005)
• PhD (Cambridge 2010)
• PG Cert(HE) Learning & Teaching (Anglia Ruskin University 2010)

• Member of British Medical Association
• Member of British Sociological Association
• Registered with General Medical Council

Courses

• Issues in Contraception and Sexual health (Level 3)
• Practice in Contraception and Sexual health (Level 3)

Outline of career

Dr Susan Walker is a Senior Lecturer in Sexual Health at Anglia Ruskin University. She qualified in medicine from Queens' University in Belfast in 1990. She specialised in General Practice in 1993, became a Diplomate of the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Health, and developed an interest in the intersection of gender and medicine. She undertook a BA (Hons) in Women's Studies and Sociology at Anglia Ruskin University and was awarded a PhD in Sociology at the University of Cambridge in 2010. Her PhD title was 'The Effect of Gendered Body Image upon Contraceptive Outcomes'. She is a member of both the British Medical Association and the British Sociological Association and continues to work at the intersection of medicine and sociology, with a particular interest in gender.

Research interest

• Contraception
• Sexual health
• Gender
• Sociology of Health and Illness
• Psychoanalytical theory