Dr Nikki Hayfield

Qualifications:

Psychology PhD, Psychology BSc

Position:

Associate Professor in Gender and Sexualities / Interim Director of the Centre for Appearance Research / Associate Director - Psychology

Department:

HAS - Health and Social Sciences

Telephone:

+441173282139

Email:

Nikki2.Hayfield@uwe.ac.uk

Social media:

About me

I am an Associate Professor in Gender and Sexualities and Interim Director of the Centre for Appearance Research (CAR). My current research interests are primarily in exploring peri/menopause and women's relationships and reproductive lives. I also have expertise in bisexualities, pansexualities, asexualities, and sexualities (including heterosexualities) more widely.

I have published on a range of topics, including peri/menopause, childfree identities, bisexualities, marginalisation, and relationships. I use qualitative data in my research and have written papers, chapters, and a book about qualitative research methods. I regularly collaborate with Victoria Clarke, Ginny Braun, and Gareth Terry to write about reflexive thematic analysis, and I also deliver workshops on this analytic method.

You can find a full list of my publications at the end of this page - where possible, I make (pre-publication) versions publicly available via the UWE Research Repository and on ResearchGate.

I am a British Psychological Society (BPS) Chartered Psychologist.

Recent book projects

I co-authored Essentials of Thematic Analysis with Gareth Terry (Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa Massey University), published in 2021 as part of the American Psychological Association's Essentials of Qualitative Methods book series.

My book, entitled Bisexual and Pansexual Identities: Exploring and challenging invisibility and invalidation, was published in July 2020. You can read the first chapter free of charge by clicking on 'preview this title' on the publisher's page.

Area of expertise

Background

I began my research as an undergraduate student exploring women's understandings of sex and affection for my final-year undergraduate dissertation.

After a brief break from academia to visit Australia, I returned to the UK and completed my PhD on bisexual women's appearance and visual identities.

After completing my PhD in 2011, I primarily focused my research around marginalised identities, including bisexualities, pansexualities, and asexualities.

Current areas of focus

In recent years, my research interests have broadly related to women’s reproductive lives and relationships – these include peri/menopause, (hetero)sexualities and relationships, and childfree identities.

I have a love of various forms of motorsport and supervised a student who wanted to research LGBTQ+ people’s experiences of motorsport for their dissertation project, which has now been published. 

My editorial roles include Consultant to the Editor-in-Chief for Sex Roles, Associate Editor for Feminism & Psychology, and being a member of the Editorial Board for Women's Reproductive Health and the Journal of Lesbian Studies. I also regularly review for various psychology and qualitative methods journals.

I try to do all the things that most academics do - present at conferences, deliver public talks, publish chapters and papers, write books, submit applications to secure research funding, sit on committees, and work with organisations wherever possible. If you would like to see my CV for more details, then please do get in touch.

Supervision

I currently supervise undergraduate and postgraduate projects and would be delighted to consider applications from potential PhD students on topics that fit my current areas of research focus. I am particularly keen to supervise students interested in conducting qualitative research on topics related to peri/menopause and midlife. 

Publications

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