Centre for Love, Sex, and Relationships
@clsrleeds.bsky.social
We are a research centre within the University of Leeds. Let’s think about intimacy together. - https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/homepage/420/centre_for_love_sex_and_relationships
Business ethics week featuring talks on personal life and AI from Ruby Hornsby and Sophie Goddard. 👇🏻
IDEA: The Ethics Centre@idea-leeds.bsky.social · 3w agoNext week is the inaugural Business Ethics Week at the University of Leeds, a collaboration between us and the University of Leeds Business School.
In London today @alex-fisher.bsky.social set out our progress in reviewing the dating app industry ethical standards for the Online Dating and Discovery Association.
It’s sexual health week 2026 and @brookcharity.bsky.social asked me to write about AI companions. They might be seductive, but what do we stand to loose in putting chatbots before messy human conversations? www.brook.org.uk/blog/ai-and-...
AI and connection: do we still need analogue intimacy? - Brook
For #SHW26, we’re exploring how we can champion connection in an increasingly individualised world. In this blog, Dr Luke Brunning, Lecturer in Applied Ethics
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Last week we had the pleasure of hosting our workshop Intimate (In)Justices at the MANCEPT workshops on political theory! Scroll for a breakdown of our amazing talks👇
Learn more about intimate injustice and why our PhD researchers are organising a MANCEPT workshop on that theme: ethicsuntangled.substack.com/p/what-role-...
What role does injustice play in our intimate lives?
Danielle talks to Charlotte Curran, Kristin Kaeuper, and Isobel Logan about their upcoming MANCEPT workshop on Intimate (In)justices
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Not long to go until our MANCEPT workshop on intimate injustice!
Centre for Love, Sex, and Relationships@clsrleeds.bsky.social · 4mo agoWe’re buzzing to share with you the programme for our upcoming workshop at MANCEPT, Intimate (In)Justices. Looking forward to a great few days of varied and important discussions of political and ethical issues in the intimate sphere ❤️
In case you missed our fantastic line up for the breakup workshop 👇🏻
Centre for Love, Sex, and Relationships@clsrleeds.bsky.social · 3mo agoBreakups hurt, upend our lives, and change how we relate to each other but have been curiously neglected by philosophers. Our workshop next month aims to look closer at this often messy part of life. Here is the fantastic line up.
Amazing to have 3000 followers on here! Stick around for more about all things philosophy and intimacy and share with people who need this in their life.
Breakups hurt, upend our lives, and change how we relate to each other but have been curiously neglected by philosophers. Our workshop next month aims to look closer at this often messy part of life. Here is the fantastic line up.
Tomorrow is the final day for PhDs and post-docs to express interest for this workshop on breakups.
Centre for Love, Sex, and Relationships@clsrleeds.bsky.social · 3mo agoOne week for post-grad and post-docs to express interest in presenting at our Breakup Workshop 💔👇🏻
Huge congratulations to Dr Ruby Hornsby, who graduated from Leeds last week after passing her PhD at the end of last year! She was supervised by Chris Megone and Natasha McKeever. 🥂
One week for post-grad and post-docs to express interest in presenting at our Breakup Workshop 💔👇🏻
Centre for Love, Sex, and Relationships@clsrleeds.bsky.social · 4mo agoPhilosophers have mostly neglected breakups, despite their impact on our lives. Our next workshop aims to catalyse more research into the ethics of breakups.
We have a swanky new website! As part of our website update, we asked @lukebrunning.bsky.social to explain who CLSR are, what we do, and why you should get involved⚡️ Follow the link in our bio to see an updated list of all our old and upcoming events, exciting news, publications, members and more💕
Congratulations to Rosa Vince, our Leverhulme research fellow, for signing a contract for their book ‘The Ethics of Objectification’ with @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
Want a @britishacademy.bsky.social post-doctoral fellowship with us? We'd love to mentor philosophers with projects on intimacy, love, and relationships. More information here: ahc.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...
PRHS Opens Call for 2026 British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships
Prospective candidates must submit their initial proposals by 12 noon (UK time) on Tuesday 4 August 2026 to be considered for department sponsorship
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Working on intimacy in all its forms? Apply for a post-doc at @clsrleeds.bsky.social, home of the aro/ace research network!
Centre for Love, Sex, and Relationships@clsrleeds.bsky.social · 4mo agoWant a @britishacademy.bsky.social post-doctoral fellowship with us? We'd love to mentor philosophers with projects on intimacy, love, and relationships. More information here: ahc.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...
Want a @britishacademy.bsky.social post-doctoral fellowship with us? We'd love to mentor philosophers with projects on intimacy, love, and relationships. More information here: ahc.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...
PRHS Opens Call for 2026 British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships
Prospective candidates must submit their initial proposals by 12 noon (UK time) on Tuesday 4 August 2026 to be considered for department sponsorship
ahc.leeds.ac.uk
We’re buzzing to share with you the programme for our upcoming workshop at MANCEPT, Intimate (In)Justices. Looking forward to a great few days of varied and important discussions of political and ethical issues in the intimate sphere ❤️
Looking forward to speaking about gaslighting in Leeds for the Pints of Knowledge series🍻 9th August - come say hi! www.tickettailor.com/events/pints...
Buy tickets – "Gaslighting: The Evolution of a Concept Across Art, Relationships and Politics" – The Wardrobe
"Gaslighting: The Evolution of a Concept Across Art, Relationships and Politics" – The Wardrobe, Sun 9 Aug 2026 - "Gaslighting: The Evolution of a Concept Across Art, Relationships and Politics" with ...
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Philosophers have mostly neglected breakups, despite their impact on our lives. Our next workshop aims to catalyse more research into the ethics of breakups.
Philosophers have mostly neglected breakups, despite their impact on our lives. Our next workshop aims to catalyse more research into the ethics of breakups.
Two of our PhDs are speaking at the White Rose Practical Philosophy Network this week. Lots of great talks on the programme - we’re looking forward to it!
Our blog is now on Substack - come find us if you’re interested in applied ethics: open.substack.com/pub/ethicsun...
Ethics Untangled | Substack
Click to read Ethics Untangled, a Substack publication. Launched 11 minutes ago.
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Natasha McKeever’s article ‘Is the Requirement of Sexual Exclusivity Consistent with Romantic Love’ (2017) is discussed in this chapter of the Overthink podcast’s recent episode on cheating Check it out! open.spotify.com/podcast-chap...
Why Infidelity is a Dealbreaker: Exploring Micro-Cheating and Relationship Rules
Overthink · Chapter · 19m
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Rosa Vince is speaking at this fantastic conference on the power structures embedded in gendered, romantic, and sexual relations. At @univie.ac.at on Friday and Saturday.
My latest article in @theconversation.com explores some of the ways using AI may undermine intimacy. AI might promise to make things easier but I suggest there is value in being curious, figuring things out, and failing, especially in intimate life. theconversation.com/as-ai-plays-...
As AI plays a bigger role in relationships, true intimacy is getting lost
The normalisation of AI to mediate and shape intimacy arguably erodes self-curiosity.
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I spoke to @lukebrunning.bsky.social about my research on deepfakes and online authenticity for the new Ethics Untangled blog by @idea-leeds.bsky.social: ethics-untangled.ghost.io/deepfakes-an... Sign up to the blog above for more interviews and insights from my fantastic colleagues at IDEA.
