Dr Monique Huysamen

Senior Research Associate

My profile

Biography

I am a critical qualitative researcher with a particular interest in gender, sexualities, and neurodiversities.  I lead a NIHR SSCR funded project called Supporting Autistic Adults’ Intimate Lives.  I hold a PhD in Psychology and I work across disciplinary boundaries. Much of my research explores sex work in various global contexts, focusing on questions around men and masculinities, sexuality, disabilities, identity, stigma, power, race, and class. I am particularly interested in discursive, narrative, reflexive, participatory, and decolonial approaches to critical qualitative research.

Phd supervision: My research areas include: sex work, sexual health, men and masculinities, ‘deviant’ and stigmatised sexualities, gender, disabilities and neurodiversity (particularly autism), identity, urban poverty and inequalities (particularly in the global south), power, race, and class.

I am available to supervise PhD projects that fit loosely within these research interests. I also welcome projects with focus on critical qualitative research methods, particularly students interested in social constructionist and discursive approaches to research.

Academic and professional qualifications

PhD in Psychology (2018) Department of Psychology, University of Cape Town

Master of Social Science in Psychological Research Methods  (2013) Department of Psychology, University of Cape Town

Honours in Psychology (2011) Department of Psychology, University of Cape Town

Bachelor of Social Work (Hons) (2010) Department of Social Development, University of Cape Town

Visiting and honorary positions

Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Psychology, University of Cape Town. 

Editorial Board membership

I am a member of the editorial board for PINS (Psychology in society). https://pins.org.za/

PINS is a peer-reviewed journal that was formed in September 1983 as vehicle for a critical and anti-apartheid stance in psychology. PINS continues to foster a socio-historical and critical theory perspective by focusing on the theory and practice of psychology in the southern African context.

Personal website address

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5664-998X

Get in touch

Brooks Building

Research outputs

I am passionate about critical qualitative research methods. I work around gender, sexuality, and race. 

Theoretical and Methodological areas of interest:

Discourse analysis, Narrative Analysis, Participatory Action Research, Thematic Analysis, Feminst Decolonial Theroy, Feminist research methods, Poststructuralism, Social Constructionism, Queer Theory, Refelxivity, Ethnography

Topics of interest

Sex work, Men and Masculinities, Sexual and Reporductive Health, Stigma, Gender, Sexuality,Neurodiversity,  Poverty, Racism, Identity, online identities and sexualities