August 2026 Fellows' update: Rosie Richards
Rosie Richards (CF 2025) has accepted a place on the Contemporary Institute of Clinical Sexology's psychotherapy training course, beginning in September.
By Rosie Richards, 7 August 2026
Fellow's Profile
Rosie Richards
Fellow's Profile
Rosie Richards
Improving sexual education and wellbeing for adults with intellectual disabilities
Fellowship
- Themes
- Focus
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With pleasure: Improving sex education for adults with intellectual disabilities
- Countries
- Fellowship year
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2025
- Locality
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South West
Contact
Biography
I am a mental health social worker, disability advocate, group facilitator and queer person from Brighton. I have completed two master's degrees in sociological and anthropological fields, and I have begun training in psychodynamic relationship therapy.
My Fellowship focuses on empowering adults with intellectual disabilities to realise their right to meaningful sexual and romantic relationships. The intersection between disability and sexuality is couched in risk-mitigation and safeguarding narratives and seen as a problem to be solved or pathologized. Adults with intellectual disabilities are often infantilised as having no capacity to consent to safe sex practices and as a result are left to navigate experiences of intimacy with little to no support. These adults are entitled to access empowering education about their body and the opportunities for pleasure that it can provide.
I hope to learn from the progressive attempts to tackle this stigma in Australasia and Scandinavia with a view to ultimately developing a sex positive, disability-inclusive education service where talking about sex is about pleasure and wellness, not a source of shame and fear.
Activity
April 2026 Fellows' update: Rosie Richards
Rosie Richards (CF 2025) presented at the Contemporary Intimacies, Sexualities and Genders (CISG) conference at Manchester Metropolitan University, sharing her Churchill Fellowship research on improving sex education for adults with cognitive disabilities.
By Rosie Richards, 29 April 2026
April 2026 Fellows' update: Rosie Richards
Rosie Richards (CF 2025) presented at the Leeds Centre for Disability Studies conference, sharing her Churchill Fellowship research on improving sex education for adults with cognitive disabilities.
By Rosie Richards, 23 April 2026
February 2026 Fellows' update: Rosie Richards
Rosie Richards (CF 2025) spoke at Choice Support’s Supported Loving Network event about her Churchill Fellowship research on improving sexual education and wellbeing for adults with intellectual disabilities.
By Rosie Richards, 25 February 2026
Connecting across Continents - Insights from Australian Fellows
When travelling in Australia for her Fellowship, Rosie Richards attended the Winston Churchill Trust in Australia's, 60th anniversary convention for Fellows.
By Rosie Richards, 13 November 2025
Disclaimer
All Reports are copyright © the author. The moral right of the author has been asserted. The views and opinions expressed by any Fellow are those of the Fellow and not of the Churchill Fellowship or its partners, which have no responsibility or liability for any part of them.
Activity
August 2026 Fellows' update: Rosie Richards
Rosie Richards (CF 2025) has accepted a place on the Contemporary Institute of Clinical Sexology's psychotherapy training course, beginning in September.
By Rosie Richards, 7 August 2026
April 2026 Fellows' update: Rosie Richards
Rosie Richards (CF 2025) presented at the Contemporary Intimacies, Sexualities and Genders (CISG) conference at Manchester Metropolitan University, sharing her Churchill Fellowship research on improving sex education for adults with cognitive disabilities.
By Rosie Richards, 29 April 2026
April 2026 Fellows' update: Rosie Richards
Rosie Richards (CF 2025) presented at the Leeds Centre for Disability Studies conference, sharing her Churchill Fellowship research on improving sex education for adults with cognitive disabilities.
By Rosie Richards, 23 April 2026
February 2026 Fellows' update: Rosie Richards
Rosie Richards (CF 2025) spoke at Choice Support’s Supported Loving Network event about her Churchill Fellowship research on improving sexual education and wellbeing for adults with intellectual disabilities.
By Rosie Richards, 25 February 2026
Connecting across Continents - Insights from Australian Fellows
When travelling in Australia for her Fellowship, Rosie Richards attended the Winston Churchill Trust in Australia's, 60th anniversary convention for Fellows.
By Rosie Richards, 13 November 2025
Disclaimer
All Reports are copyright © the author. The moral right of the author has been asserted. The views and opinions expressed by any Fellow are those of the Fellow and not of the Churchill Fellowship or its partners, which have no responsibility or liability for any part of them.
