SAM WINTER: CURRICULUM VITAE

Covering work in  SEXUALITY AND GENDER

(including SEXUAL AND GENDER DEVELOPMENT AND DIVERSITIES, SEXUAL HEALTH, RIGHTS and SEX EDUCATION  

from 2000 onwards

(Site inception date 21st June 2010)

Since 2000 Sam Winter's field of work has been sexual and gender development and diversity, sexual rights and health, and sex education.  During this time he has published around 30 pieces of work, including journal articles (in psychology, anthropology, history, law, and health), as well as book chapters and entries for encyclopedias. Two of the publications to which he contributed have won international prizes. He has been invited by publishers to review book manuscripts, as well by editors to review manuscripts for seven journals. He sits on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Transgenderism, and is to act as Guest Editor for a special issue scheduled for late 2012 on the topic of Trans-Health and Rights in the Global South/East.

Sam has been commissioned to be lead author for a paper in a series on Transgender Health, to be published by the medical journal Lancet in 2012/13. 

Sam teaches and supervises research students in his field of interest, and runs a university-wide course in Sexuality and Gender: Diversity and Society - one of the most popular courses at the University of Hong Kong. From 2012 he is due to run an additional course, again university-wide, on Sexuality and Culture. Sam also runs a course in special education. Standardised Hong Kong University student evaluations over the last 5 years put Sam at an average 81% for teacher effectiveness and 82% for course effectiveness. These figures are (respectively) 8% and 11% higher than comparison Faculty/University figures.

Sam is deeply involved in enhancing health, rights and welfare for sexual and gender minorities. He has taken part in training for psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers working with transpeople, provided expert evidence in a number of legal and asylum cases, and is involved in the work of a large number of local, regional and international organisations. He has participated in two international expert meetings on sexual and gender minority health issues. Sam is one of the Directors of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), which publishes the influential Standards of Care (SOC) guiding or regulating  the work of mental health professionals, surgeons and others worldwide working with transpeople. He was a member of a team of 34 professionals which produced the recent seventh revision of SOC. The trustees of GIRES (the Gender Identity Research and Education Society) have awarded the SOC-7 team its 2011 prize.

Sam has recently submitted a UNDP (United Nations Development Programme) commissioned report on Asian transpeople, their human rights, and their vulnerability to HIV infection. He is about to begin a UNAIDS (United Nations AIDS Programme) commissioned report on the HIV-related needs of transpeople communities for strengthened advocacy.

Sam is one of eleven individuals appointed by WHO (World Health Organisation) to its Working Group on the Classification of Sexual Disorders and Sexual Health, which has been tasked with reviewing, and if appropriate revising, 45 diagnoses in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), in readiness for the forthcoming eleventh revision (the first revision in 20 years. At the first meeting of the working group at WHO's Geneva  HQ in January 2012, and in turn with other members, Sam made a presentation (in his case on 'transsexualism'). 

Sam speaks widely on issues of sexual and gender development and diversity, sexual rights and health, and sex education. He has given around 30 invited presentations internationally and in Hong Kong.

Personal and Professional Data    

Scholarly work:

    Journal Articles, Book Chapters and Other Published Papers                                                                      

    Other Published Outputs                                                                                                                                             

        Presentations (Conferences, Symposia and Seminars)                                                                                                                         

    Editorial / Review Duties for Journals                                                                                                                             

    Research Grants                                                                                                                                                                  

Teaching  (Higher Degree, Undergraduate and Teaching Grants)

Community Engagement and Action (Hong Kong and International)

Link to site for TransgenderASIA Research, Education and Advocacy Centre.