About
Research
Email: christine.campbell@stmarys.ac.uk
Tel: 020 8240 4140
Biography
Chris gained her BSc (Hons) from Portsmouth University in 1996 and her PhD from the University of Southampton in 2000. Christine previously lectured at Southampton Solent University and Anglia Ruskin University. She received a Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education in 2005, and with it HEA fellowship. Chris also has a certificate in Humanistic Counselling from Chichester University. She's a Chartered Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society.
She has been interviewed for various national and international media outlets such as BBC Radio 5 live, The Independent, Stylist Magazine, Mel Magazine, The New Statesman and Die Welt on the topic of consensual non-monogamy, BDSM, and intimate relationships in general.
She's an elected committee member of the BPS Psychology of Sexualities Section and leads the organisation of their annual conference. She is also on the International Organising Committee and Scientific Committees for the biannual Non-Monogamies and Contemporary Intimacies Conference which takes place in Europe and the annual International Conference on the Future of Monogamy and Non-Monogamy which takes place in the USA.
She teaches qualitative and quantitative research methods, introductory courses in critical psychology, and specialist courses in the psychology of intimate relationships.
Research
Research profile
Chris's research interests lie in the area of sexualised bodies and alternative relationships. She has engaged in collaborative research with colleagues at UWE into menopause, colleagues at Bournemouth and Coventry University into consensual non-monogamy, and colleagues at Anglia Ruskin University on media representations of bodies.
She also gives training to NHS trusts on working with GSRD (gender, sexuality and relationship diverse) patients.
PhD Supervision
Chris is very interested in supervising PhDs in the area of romantic relationships and attraction. She has supervised six PhD students to completion.
Selected Contributions to the Public Understanding of Science:
- Invited speaker to GUM and Community Sexual and Reproductive Health registrars, consultants and doctors at Whittal Street Clinic, Birmingham, the Multi-Disciplinary Team at Sexual Southwest London Falcon Street Clinic, and Person Centred Nursing Care students at Southampton University on Providing Sexual Healthcare to Relationship Diverse patients (various dates in 2025 and 2026).
- Interviewed for "El Cazador de Cerebros" (The Brain Hunter), broadcast on La2 (Spain’s second public television channel. “Nuevos amores (New Loves)” aired on June 23rd 2024.
- Interviewed for BBC Radio 4 Positive Thinking programme “The Case for Polyamory” 12th April 2022
- Invited contribution to the Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP) and the Broadcast Committee of Advertising Practice (BCAP) in their project on the Regulation of advertising, which gives rise to potential harms relating to body image concerns. (11th January, 2022.) and submitted evidence to the Women and Equalities Parliamentary Select Committee Inquiry “Changing the perfect picture: an inquiry into body image” (26th June, 2020)
- Guest speaker on BBC 5live Stephen Nolan show (February 21st, 2020) The rough sex defence and BDSM
Selected Peer Reviewed Publications:
- Owen, C., Majumder, A., Campbell, C., O’Prey, J., & Jaye, C. (2025). Diverse but shallow, unrealistic but influential: Women's dilemmas when viewing plus-sized models of colour on billboards. Journal of Gender Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2025.2521684
- Scoats, R. & Campbell, C. (2024) Understanding Service Preferences among Consensually Non-Monogamous Individuals Seeking Sexual Healthcare. Culture, Health and Sexuality. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2024.2350434
- Daniel, T., Lamb, J., & Campbell, C. (2023). Avoidance and Empowerment: How do Sex Workers Navigate Stigma? Sexualities https://doi-org.stmarys.idm.oclc.org/10.1177/13634607231201736
- Scoats, R. & Campbell, C. (2022). What do we know about consensual non-monogamy? Invited contribution for special issue: “Sexual & Gender Diversity in the 21st Century” Current Opinion in Psychology, 48, 101468 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2022.101468
- Hayfield, N., Campbell, C., & Reed, L. (2018). Misrecognition and managing marginalisation: Bisexual people’s experiences of bisexuality and relationships. Psychology and Sexuality, 9(3), 221-236. doi: 10.1080/19419899.2018.1470106.
Selected Conference Presentations:
- Campbell, C. & Scotes, R. (2025) “Oh! How Modern! And... Are You Ok with That?”: Consensually Non-Monogamous People’s Experiences and Preferences When Accessing Sexual Health Care. BASHH (British Association for Sexual Health and HIV) Annual Conference 2025 9th to 11th June 2025 Edinburgh, Scotland.
- Owen, C. & Campbell, C. (2023). Lads, medical experts and carers: How men talk about penis concerns in online forums. ISCHP 13th Biennial conference. University of O'Higgins, Chile.
- Hayfield, N., Campbell, C. (2020). “She is less of a woman now”: Exploring students’ understandings of the menopause through story completion. British Psychological Society Psychology of Women Section Annual Conference, 10-12 July 2020. Cumberland Lodge, Windsor Great Park, UK.
- Owen, C., Brown, N., Campbell, C., & Omrani, A. (2019). Boobs are back: How girls' magazines talk about breasts. International Society of Critical Health Psychology, 11th Biannual conference, 15-17th July 2019. Bratislava, Slovakia.
- Owen, C., & Campbell, C. (2017). Celebrity Swordsmen, Ice-Cream Dildos and Mutilated Manhood: The Production and Management of Phallic Ideals and Penis Fears in Men’s Online Magazines. International Society of Critical Health Psychology, 10th Biannual conference, 9-12 July 2017. Loughborough University, UK.