Joe Strong (he/him) is a Guest Teacher on the Health and International Development MSc at the Department of International Development, LSE. A mixed-methods, feminist demographer, his research focuses on the intersections and relationships between constructions of masculinities and sexual and reproductive health and rights. His PhD, Troubling Men, examined men’s involvements and the mechanisms that drove these in abortion, emergency contraception, and condom use in Accra, Ghana. The work was conducted in partnership with the NGO Act for Change and included gender transformational workshops with men through an LSE KEI award.

His broader research examines reproductive injustice and covers multiple contexts including Bangladesh (Cox’s Bazar), France, Ghana, Ethiopia, Malawi, Poland, United Kingdom, United States, and Zambia. Ongoing work includes in partnership with feminist collectives analysing data from women and pregnant people seeking abortion care and consulting work with the World Health Organisation on maternal, newborn, and child healthcare. His critical methodological work interrogates how demographic data (re)create assumptions and norms, including the representation of sex, pleasure, and sexuality within surveys. This includes analysing the complex social and structure factors that shape interview experiences and the impact this has on data collection. His most recent work considers the role of pregnancy recognition in abortion trajectories.

His upcoming research includes theoretical work queering demographic research, methodological work on the impact of interviewers and structures in shaping abortion research among Rohingya communities (Bangladesh, Cox’s Bazar), the roles of men in abortion trajectories during COVID-19 (Poland), and the critical reflections on measuring pregnancy recognition (Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, Zambia).