The Centre for Gender & Sexual Health Equity hosts a World Sexual Health Day Lunch & Learn featuring Dr. Samantha Dawson, CGSHE and UBC Psychology faculty, on THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, at 12:00 p.m. via Zoom. Dr. Dawson will be discussing her research on sexual health and pleasure conducted through her Sexual Well-being (SWELL) Lab at UBC. This #WSHD2022 event is free and open to all!

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About the Talk

What’s pleasure got to do with it? An overlooked aspect of sexual health and well-being. In this talk, Dr. Samantha Dawson will share recent research on sexual well-being—sexual desire, sexual satisfaction, sexual frequency—with a specific focus on factors that bolster sexual well-being for both individuals and couples. She will also discuss an oft overlooked aspect of sexual well-being—sexual pleasure—and will discuss upcoming work that seeks to bridge this gap.

About the Speaker

Dr. Samantha Dawson (she/her) is a CGSHE faculty member, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of British Columbia, a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Scholar, and the Director of the Sexuality and Well-being (SWell) Lab. She completed her PhD in Clinical Psychology at Queen’s University, followed by a SSHRC Banting postdoctoral fellowship at Dalhousie University. Her multi-method research program focuses on identifying cognitive and affective mechanisms contributing to sexual function in individuals and couples, with the goal of using these mechanisms to develop targeted and gender-specific interventions for sexual dysfunction.