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Annalise leads a project for Plan International UK鈥檚 and Brook鈥檚 Let鈥檚 Talk. Period initiative, creating a series of evidence-based resources for the menstruation education, health, policy, and advocacy sector.听The series entails four reports:

In collaboration with Dr Stella Bullo and The Language of Endometriosis project,听Annalise is undertaking a study of health professionals鈥� experiences of providing care for patients with suspected or diagnosed endometriosis. See the Discover Society article, 鈥�It鈥檚 a Challenge鈥�: Doctors鈥� Perspectives on Diagnosing Endometriosis and Improving Care, for preliminary findings from the project. She is also collaborating on an ESRC funded project led by Gemma Williams on period poverty in the UK during the Covid19 pandemic.

Annalise leads two research projects for Umbrella Sexual Health. One study entails improving the return rates of STI home testing kits ordered online. The other study examines the use of the 鈥榤ystery shopper鈥� method in evaluating sexual health services within community pharmacy settings.

Annalise听has and is disseminating findings from a number of NIHR-HTA funded qualitative research projects.听 These include an examination of women鈥檚 post caesarean section recovery experiences as part of the PREPS (Vaginal Preparation at caesarean section to Reduce Endometriosis and Prevent Sepsis) feasibility trial. With ,听she explored women鈥檚 experiences of pregnancy while living with epilepsy as part of the EMPiRE (Anti-Epileptic drug Monitoring in PREgnancy) Trial.听Annalise and Denny also examined women鈥檚 experiences of medical treatments for endometriosis for the PRE-EMPT (Preventing Recurrence of Endometriosis by Means of long acting Progestogen Therapy) Trial.

• Reproductive, menstrual, and听sexual health
• Gendered experiences of health inequalities
• Chronic health conditions (such as endometriosis and epilepsy)
• Young people and (menstrual and sexual) health
• Patient experiences and engagement
• Qualitative (applied and participatory) methods听in health research
• Feminist (Praxis) Theory and Medical Anthropology

• PhD, Medical Anthropology, School of Health and Social Studies, University of Warwick, 2012
• Community of Practice for Doctoral Supervision, SEDA Accreditation, 2021
• Good Clinical Practice, National Institute for Health Research, Clinical Research Network, 2020
• Aurora (Training in Leadership and Gender Equality), Advance Higher Education, 2017
• Fellow of Advance Higher Education, 2016

2021 to present

, 2022 to present

, 2020 to present

Feminist Gender Equality Network, 2020 to present

, 2020 to present

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• Postgraduate Certificate in Research 鈥� Qualitative Research Methods
• Advanced Qualitative Research Design seminars
• Lectures in the following areas: Anthropology/Sociology of Childhoods; Feminist Theory; Gender and Health; Research Techniques with Children and Young People; Anthropology of Humanitarian Aid & Philanthropy; Global Childhood(s)

Current/ongoing research:

Co-I 鈥� , NIHR: Programme Grant for Applied Research, 2023 - 2028听

Convener 鈥� 鈥樷�� British Academy & Wellcome Trust Conference, July 6^th and 7^th 2023听

Lead Investigator 鈥� Improving Maternity Services: Listening to Families and Staff, R&D Number: 288136; REC Reference: 20/YH/0256; HRA Approval:20/11/2020

PI 鈥� 鈥業mproving Mystery Shopper Evaluation Methods in Community Pharmacies Providing Sexual Health Services鈥� (Umbrella Sexual Health, 探花直播 Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust)

Lead Investigator 鈥� Barriers to Return of Home Sampling Kits for Sexually Transmitted Infections Requested Online: A Qualitative Study (Umbrella Sexual Health, 探花直播 Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust)

Completed projects/dissemination in process:

(2021) Lead Investigator - Plan International UK鈥檚 and Brook鈥檚Let鈥檚 Talk.Period Menstruation Research Resources. Creating evidence-based resources for the听menstruation education, health, policy, and advocacy sector:

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(2022) Co-I - Periods in a Pandemic: How UK period poverty initiatives are managing with Covid-19 related challenges听 (UKRI: Economic Social Research Council)

(2022) Co-Lead - Situational analysis of girls鈥� experiences of menstruation in the UK and policy and programmatic responses (Plan International UK)

(2021) Lead with Dr Stella Bullo of - Communicating Endo: Doctors鈥� Perspectives on Treating (Suspected) Endometriosis (HELS Faculty Pilot Project Scheme)

(2019) Co-Lead- - bringing academics, activists and creators for public engagement event on gender, sexuality and marginalised bodies) (Film Hub West Midlands)

(2018) Co-I - (NIHR: Research for Patient Benefit)

• : Menstrual Cycle Monitoring and Sport Performance
• : Teenage Girls鈥� Experiences and Awareness of Endometriosis
• Tamara Shiboleth: Teenagers鈥� Experiences of Sexual Assault Support Services听
• Gemma Williams: Menstrual Equity and Chronic Illness
• Louisa Clifford: Experiences of/Improving Services for Parents of Preterm Multiples
• Kate Codd: (Staffordshire University) Health Care Visitors and Improving Responses to Domestic Violence
• Andrea Anastassoui:听听Teen Sexting, Gender and the Individualisation of Risk (Completed)

Selection of Publications

Hughes, Weckesser, Denny, et al. (2024) Seizure: European Journal of Epilepsy

Perro, Seglah, Abrahams, Weckesser & Griffith (2022) BMJ

Weckesser & Denny (2022, 2018) 鈥� BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology. Includes:

• Weckesser & Denny (2022) BJOG: Research Methods Guide
• Weckesser & Denny (2022) BJOG: Research Methods Guide
• Denny & Weckesser (2022) ? BJOG: Research Methods Guide
• Denny & Weckesser (2022) BJOG: Research Methods Guide
• Denny & Weckesser (2018) BJOG: Research Methods Guide

Williams, Craddock, & Weckesser (2022) , Report for UKRI: Economic and Social Research Council.

Bullo & Weckesser (2021) , in Frontiers in Global Women's Health听听听听

Randhawa, Tufte-Hewett, Weckesser, et al. (2021) . J Pediatr Adolesc Gynecol.

Weckesser, Randhawa, Williams & Hewett (2020) Let鈥檚 Talk. Period听Research Briefs. Brook and Plan International. A series of evidence-based resources for the听menstruation education, health, policy, and advocacy sector, entailing four reports:

Abbott, Weckesser & Egan (2020) 鈥樷赌�Everyone knows someone in an unhealthy relationship鈥�: Young people鈥檚 talk about intimate heterosexual relationships in England,鈥� in Sex Education

Weckesser, Hodgetts-Morton,听Wilson, et al. (2019) 鈥�,鈥� BMC Pregnancy & Childbirth, 19 (245).

Denny & Weckesser听(2019) 鈥榃omen鈥檚 Experiences of Endometriosis鈥� in Ussher, Chrisler, & Prez (eds),听.

Hodgetts-Morton, Hewitt, Wilson,听Farmer,听and听Weckesser,听et al. (2019) 鈥�鈥� in听Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica.

Denny, Weckesser, Jones, G, et al. (2018) 鈥�,鈥� Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 4 (1).

Hodgetts-Morton, Wilson,听Hewitt,听Weckesser, et al. (2018)听鈥�鈥櫶齈ilot and Feasibility Studies, 4 (84).

闯酶谤驳别苍蝉别苍, Weckesser, Turner & Wade (2018) 鈥樷�� Sex Education, 19 (1).

Thangaratinam, Marlin, Newton, Weckesser, et al. (2018) 鈥楢ntiEpileptic drug Monitoring in PREgnancy (EMPiRE): a double-blind randomised trial on effectiveness and acceptability of monitoring strategies,鈥� NIHR-HTA Final Report: Health Technology Assessment, 22 (23).

Weckesser & Denny (2017) 鈥�,鈥� , 185.

Middleton, Daniels, Weckesser, & Bhattacharya (2017) 鈥�,鈥� Trials, 18 (21).

Weckesser &. Denny (2013) 鈥�,鈥� Seizure, 22(2).

(Academic) Media Articles

Boylan, Weckesser & Dixon 鈥�,鈥� The Conversation, March 23^rd 2022

Weckesser & Bullo 鈥�,鈥� The Conversation, Nov 21^st 2021

Weckesser 鈥�,鈥� The Conversation, March 25^th 2021

Weckesser 鈥樷赌溾�� Discover Society, June 3^rd 2020

Bloom, Galpin, Weckesser (2020) 鈥楩ocus: Interrogating 鈥楢 Woman鈥檚 Curse鈥� 鈥� What endometriosis tells us about politics & society鈥�, Discover Society

Selection of Conference Papers and Talks

(2022) Invited paper 鈥楨ndometriosis and the global menstrual equity movement鈥櫶�Global Period Poverty Forum听Share the Dignity, Brisbane, Australia, Oct 10-12^th

(2022) Invited paper, 鈥楾he role of social endometriosis research in addressing and understanding health inequalities鈥� Oxford Talks: Evidenced-Based Health Care Programme, University of Oxford, June 30^th podcast available:

(2022) Invited talk, Weckesser & Williams 鈥楶eriods in the Pandemic & Current Responses to Period Poverty in England鈥� Menstrual Health Day Event, Irise International, online, May 28^th

(2022) 鈥榃e know what good care is, but we can鈥檛 deliver it: Maternity staff experiences in context of ongoing crisis鈥� Centre for Social Care and Health Related Research Annual Conference, 探花直播, May 10^th

(2021) Invited series of talks for Menstrual Activism International Network, Weckeser & Williams, 鈥楾hen: Periods in the Pandemic: findings from the frontlines,鈥櫶齋ept 15^th 鈥楴ow: Let鈥檚 Talk. Period 鈥� Best Practice & Assessing Impact,鈥� Nov 16^th 鈥楴ext: Let鈥檚 Talk. Period 鈥� Inclusivity, Diversity & Centring Young Voices,鈥� Dec 7^th

(2021) 鈥楾hey think we think they鈥檙e mad: UK Clinicians鈥� experiences of providing care for those with suspected endometriosis鈥�. Conference presentation. Chronic Living: An Interdisciplinary听Conference. University of Copenhagen, Denmark, (hybrid, online conference) March 4^th -6^th

(2020) Conference Co-Convener : What Endometriosis Tells Us about Politics and Society Sociology of Health & Illness Foundation, University of 探花直播 (Moved Online as virtual series due to Covid)

(2020) Co-Convener: 鈥楨thics & Desires鈥� Bean Flicks Feminist Porn Festival, Film Hub West Midlands and 探花直播, 探花直播, Feb 14th -15^th

(2020) Invitedtalk, 鈥楾owards Diversity & Inclusion in the Menstruation Movement: Key Experts鈥� Insights鈥� Periods and Beyond, Brunel University, London, Feb 10^th

(2019) 鈥楾he VQ Collective: A women鈥檚 sexual health public engagement initiative鈥� University of Manchester鈥檚 Research Engagement Network, Manchester, June 25^th

(2018) Invited paper, 鈥榁agina Dialogues: Challenging Stigma around Menstruation, Menopause and Female Sexuality鈥� Oxford Talks: Evidenced-Based Health Care Programme, University of Oxford, Jun 20^th Podcast:

(2018) Invited talk 鈥�,鈥� Pint of Science: Let鈥檚 Talk about Sex, 探花直播, May 14^th

(2018) 鈥樷赌淒octors Don鈥檛 Live with the Consequences鈥�: Women鈥檚 Negotiations of Medication in Pregnancy while Living with Epilepsy鈥� 17th European Society for Health and Medical Sociology Biennial Congress, Lisbon, Portugal, 6-8^th June

(2018) 鈥榃omen鈥檚 Views on Ceasarean section Recovery, Infection and the PREPS Trial鈥� British Maternal & Fetal Medicine Conference, Brighton, 28-29^th March

(2017) 鈥榃omen鈥檚 Decision-Making around Anti-epileptic Drug Management鈥� British Sociology Association (BSA) Medical Sociology Annual Conference, York University, 11-13^th September

(2016) 鈥楽extually Active: Lessons from an Inter-disciplinary Pilot Study with Young People on the Digital Mobility of Sexual Images鈥� Im/mobile Youth: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Spatial and Temporal Change in Young People鈥檚 Lives, University of Manchester,1^st April

(2014) 鈥楻e-Working Biographies: Women鈥檚 Narratives of Pregnancy whilst Living with Epilepsy,鈥� BSA, Medical Sociology, Aston University, 10^th -12^th September

Dr Weckesser is available to speak to the media about her research and public engagement work.听

Examples of previous work:

• The Guardian (2021) 鈥樷��
• BBC News (2020) BBC Video 鈥�
• Refinery 29听(2019)鈥樷��
• The New Statesmen听(2018) 鈥樷�櫶�
• The Independent听(2017) 鈥�

听(Twitter handle for SEEN 鈥� Social SciencEs Endometriosis Network)