Carrie Childs PhD

Dr. Carrie Childs is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Derby, United Kingdom. She completed her Doctoral degree at Loughborough University. As a social psychologist with a strong qualitative background, she has focused her research on how language is used to negotiate relationships, actions, and events in our everyday lives. Carrie has a long-standing research interest in sexuality issues. Her past work has explored the interaction between police officers and children reporting alleged sexual offenses. More recently, she has turned her attention to social constructions of sexuality, particularly the marginalization of non-normative sexual practices and relationships. Her current work explores discursive constructions of ‘sex addiction’ in the accounts of women who identify as being sexually addicted.