PFC Vice-President

Lewis Turner

Dr Lewis Turner, Vice-President Press for Change

Lewis Turner Lewis’s area of expertise is Equality Diversity and Human Rights. He is a member of the Equality and Human Rights Parliament for Greater Manchester Council for Voluntary Organisations and is also an advisor for the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO). He trains student officers for Lancashire Constabulary on trans issues and is also part of a Hate Crime Scrutiny Panel for the Crown Prosecution Service in Lancashire. In recognition of his work with the police, Lewis was awarded a Lancashire Criminal Justice Board Justice Award: ’Outstanding Commitment to Diversity’. He also works with Lancashire Police as Hate Crimes Officer for Wyre Borough Council.

Lewis is involved in research training and consultancy for PFC. He is currently involved with training on trans issues with the Crown Prosecution Service in Greater Manchester and has recently trained the Equality and Human Rights Commission.

His most recent report Transphobic Hate Crime in the European Union (2009) is the first published research on the experiences of transphobic hate crime for trans people in the EU and was commissioned by ILGA Europe.

Lewis has also co-researched and written other Press for Change publications including:

• Leading Trans Equality: A Toolkit for colleges. Centre for Excellence in Leadership 2008.
• The Transgender Euro Study: The Legal Survey and Transgender Experience Accessing Health Care. ILGA Europe 2008. This is the largest study of trans people’s experiences of accessing healthcare.
• Engendered Penalties: Transgender and Transsexual People’s Experiences of Inequality and Discrimination. Equalities Review 2007. This is the most comprehensive study of inequalities and discrimination experienced by trans people ever undertaken.
• Bereavement: A Guide for Transsexual, Transgender People and their loved ones. Department of Health 2007

Lewis also has academic papers and research reports published on race equality; diversity and governance as well as gender recognition and the law. He has 9 years experience of researching trans issues and his PhD thesis, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council was the first ethnographic study of a transgender group in the UK.