After completing a BA (Hons) in Sociology and an MA in Women’s Studies at the University of Liverpool, Rosie worked as a Lecturer and Research Associate in the university sector. She went on to work with third sector organisation Nacro and posts managing support services for sex workers in the NHS and third sector.

Her research has focused on sex work, hate crime, women’s safety, sexual health and violence against women and girls. She recently completed the action research project ‘Ten years on; stalking in Kirklees policing and support for survivors’, funded by the ESRC, whilst based at the University of Huddersfield. Much of her research has been participatory and impact focused.

She was awarded a PhD from the Durham University in 2016, her study “Not getting away with it”, examined Merseyside Police Force’s approach of including sex workers in hate crime policy, an approach she had worked with Merseyside Police to introduce.

Rosie was a founder member and Chair of the UK Network of Sex Work Projects, which became National Ugly Mugs a safety and support charity for sex workers in the UK. She was a third sector expert on the Dept of Health, National Support Team for Sexual Violence. In 2011 she was awarded an OBE for her work with vulnerable women.

Within the Centre, Rosie is focusing on new projects starting in years four and five of the Centre’s programme.