About Lauren

Dr Lauren Rosewarne is a Lecturer in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne.

Lauren is the author of Sex in Public: Women, Outdoor Advertising and Public Policy (2007), Cheating on the Sisterhood: Infidelity and Feminism (2009) and Part-Time Perverts: Sex, Pop Culture and Kink Management (2011) and was a contributor to the Getting Real: Challenging the Sexualisation of Girls (2009) and Banned Books in Australia (2011) anthologies. Her newest book - Periods in Popular Culture: Menstruation in Film and Television - will be launched in 2012.

Lauren is a frequent commentator in the media and is the author of numerous papers and articles on gender, media, and culture and has presented her research in Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Lebanon, Turkey, Sweden and Japan. 

Lauren completed a Bachelor of Arts (Political Science and Cultural Studies) in 2001, a Bachelor of Public Policy and Management (Honours) in 2002 and a PhD in Political Science in 2003. She also completed a Graduate Certificate in University Teaching in 2008 and is currently undertaking a Master of Creative Writing, Publishing and Editing.

You can contact Lauren via email at lrose@unimelb.edu.au, follow her on Twitter (@laurenrosewarne) or at Facebook (/lauren.rosewarne).