Louisa Elizabeth Allen

Louisa Elizabeth Allen (born 1972) is a New Zealand sex education academic. She is currently a full professor at the University of Auckland.

Academic career

After a 2000 PhD titled Exploring relationships' : a study of young people's (hetero)sexual subjectivities, knowledge and practices.' at the University of Cambridge, she moved to the University of Auckland, rising to full professor.

Selected works Allen, Louisa. "Girls want sex, boys want love: Resisting dominant discourses of (hetero) sexuality." Sexualities 6, no. 2 (2003): 215–236. Allen, Louisa. Sexual subjects: Young people, sexuality and education. Springer, 2005. Allen, Louisa. "Beyond the birds and the bees: Constituting a discourse of erotics in sexuality education." Gender and education 16, no. 2 (2004): 151–167. Allen, Louisa. "‘Say everything’: Exploring young people's suggestions for improving sexuality education." Sex Education 5, no. 4 (2005): 389-404. Allen, Louisa. "Closing sex education's knowledge/practice gap: the reconceptualisation of young people's sexual knowledge." Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning 1, no. 2 (2001): 109–122. Allen, Louisa. "Managing masculinity: Young men's identity work in focus groups." Qualitative Research 5, no. 1 (2005): 35–57.