Dr Kym Atkinson
Lecturer in Criminology
Summary
I joined Sheffield Hallam as a Lecturer in Criminology in March 2021. My research is focused on gender, the state and sexual violence and I am particularly interested in the conceptualisation and theorisation of gendered harms. My doctoral thesis explored women students’ experiences of sexual violence at university and institutional responses to this violence.
About
Publications
Journal articles
Atkinson, K. (2025). . Journal of Gender-Based Violence.
Atkinson, K., Barr, Ú., & Monk, H. (2022). Introduction: Denying oppression a future - gender, the state and feminist praxis. Feminist Responses to Injustices of the State and Its Institutions Politics Intervention Resistance, 1-29.
Atkinson, K., & Standing, K.E. (2019). Changing the Culture? A Feminist Academic Activist Critique. Violence Against Women, 25 (11), 1331-1351.
Book chapters
Atkinson, K., & Monk, H. (2023). . In Scott, D., & Sim, J. (Eds.) Demystifying Power, Crime and Social Harm. The Work and Legacy of Steven Box. (pp. 327-349). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan:
Atkinson, K. (2022). Universities, sexual violence and the institutional operation of power. In Feminist Responses to Injustices of the State and Its Institutions Politics Intervention Resistance. (pp. 99-120).
Atkinson, K., Monk, H., & Sim, J. (2022). Traumatizing the traumatized: Self-harm and death in women's prisons in England and Wales. In Feminist Responses to Injustices of the State and Its Institutions Politics Intervention Resistance. (pp. 199-215).
Books
Atkinson, K., Barr, Ú., Monk, H., & Tucker, K. (2022). Feminist responses to injustices of the state and its institutions: Politics, intervention, resistance.
Atkinson, K. (2017). Voices of Resistance Subjugated Knowledge and the Challenge to the Criminal Justice System. Eg Press Limited.
Other activities