Dr Erin Shannon
Dr Erin Shannon is a Research Associate on Dr Adrija Dey's project, Decolonising Sexual and Gender Based Violence in Higher Education: Innovations in Theory, Policy and Practice. Before joining Westminster, Erin previously worked as an Associate Lecturer in Education at University of York, and held a competitive ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Sociology at Newcastle University. Erin completed her PhD in Education at University of York in 2021; her doctoral research compared how a selection of universities in England and in the United States responded to student disclosures of sexual violence at the level of national policy, staff experience of and involvement in institutional implementation, and student survivor experience.
Erin has over a decade of experience in researching gender-based and sexual violence in higher education throughout their undergraduate, Masters, and doctoral degrees, and subsequent research posts and postdoctoral fellowship. Her approach is distinctive in her field, blending sociology, organisational studies and gender studies, and searching for transformative understandings of and solutions to violence. They convene the scholarly collective, Abolition Feminism in University Contexts.