Paul Reynolds is Reader in Sociology and Social Philosophy Programme Leader
for the undergraduate Sociology Degree and the postgraduate Masters in Research
in both Childhood and Youth and Sociology. He has been a member of staff at
Edge Hill since 1992/ Paul Reynolds is Reader in Sociology and Social
Philosophy in the Department of Social Sciences. He currently leads the
Sociology undergraduate programme and provides leadership to the MRes programme
in the social sciences, as well as supervising PhD students in his broad areas
of research: sexual ethics, politics and culture; radical social and political
theory and philosophy (with particular reference to Marxism); the intellectual
and professional in contemporary societies; and research ethics. His current
and ongoing writing focuses on sexual ethics and politics, focused on the
relationship between sexual consent, sexual literacy and sexual well-being in
its diverse forms, and the problems of sexual law, legitimacy and citizenship.
He also writes on Marxist theory – mainly in its intersections with sexuality
and the phenomenal body – and the radical intellectual. Paul is co-convenor for
the International Network for Sexual Ethics and Politics (INSEP -
http://www.insep.ugent.be/) and co-editor in chief of its journal, published by
Barbara Budrich (http://www.budrich-journals.de/index.php/insep). He is
co-director of the international network for Cultural Difference and Social
Solidarity (http://differenceandsolidarity.org/). He is a member of the
editorial board of Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory
(http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/) and has held and holds examinerships,
advisory board memberships and other measures of esteem. In the academic year
2017-2018, Paul will also hold the position of Visiting Professor at the
University of Gent.