Matthew Waites

Dr. Matthew Waites is Senior Lecturer in Sociology in the  School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow. He is author of The Age of Consent: Young People, Sexuality and Citizenship (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).  He is editor, with Corinne Lennox, of Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in the Commonwealth: Struggles for Decriminalisation and Change (London: School of Advanced Study; free online at: http://commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/publications/house-publications/lgbt-rights-commonwealth). He is also co-editor (with P. Hynes, M.Lamb and D. Short) of three volumes developing the sociology of human rights, including The Sociology of Human Rights special issue of Sociology (Vol. 46, no.5, 2012).