Dr Sally King is a Medical Sociologist specialising in menstrual health and associated human rights issues. She is also the founder of the world's first evidence-based information website on this topic, Menstrual Matters.

Sally integrates and critically evaluates biological, physiological, epidemiological, sociological and popular discourse data. Her work reveals the unintentional influence of pervasive gender and racial myths in menstrual health knowledge and practices in the UK (and beyond). Her book: 'Menstrual Myth Busting: The Case of the Hormonal Female' will be out in August 2024

 

Research

Sally's research broadly centres around identifying and countering gender and racial myths within women's health discourses and practices. Her research interests also include:

• Menstrual/menopausal physiology & health
• Menstrual/menopausal workplace policies
• Period poverty
• Menstrual education
• Reproductive rights, the pink tax
• The gender paradox in suicidal ideation/preventative approaches
• Gender and mental health
• Gender and racial myths within medical research and practices
• The myth of the hysterical female/racialised other
• Integrating biological with critical theories/data, critical realist discourse analysis
• Mixed-methods approaches, & achieving impact beyond academia.

Further details

See Sally's research profile