Dr. Billie Turner

Biography

Billie Turner is a qualitative researcher with a background in global public health, holding an MSc in Global Public Health and Policy from Queen Mary University London. Her professional work has primarily focused on young people's sexual health and wellbeing. Before joining the Social Public Health Sciences Unit (SPHSU), she worked for a local authority as a sexual health improvement specialist, providing relationships and sex education workshops for young people in schools and youth services. Turner's research interests include using co-production and participatory approaches to work collaboratively with young people, empowering them to co-produce research and take action on sexual wellbeing. She is involved in several projects such as the CONUNDRUM Action project, which aims to enhance young people's involvement in sexual health policymaking in Scotland through the establishment of an Action Group that collaborates with researchers and stakeholders. Additionally, she contributes to the Good Measure project, a UKRI-funded initiative that seeks to develop tools to better understand the links between adolescent sexuality and mental health wellbeing. Turner is also associated with the Sexual Wellbeing Ambition Scotland project, which aims to set sexual wellbeing as a public health goal and ensure young people's views are included in policymaking processes.

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