Sussex reaps REF rewards from Kathleen Stock’s trans research

The article heading is misleading. Stock did not do trans research. The methodology in her anti-trans publications was never available to be scrutinized, was not peer reviewed. Cambridge Scholars Publishing (which has nothing to do with Cambridge University) does not send it out edited collections or indeed monographs out for peer review. While the impact study may have shown impact (I would suggest that the debate that we have seen about trans rights and single sex places was nothing to do with her 'research' and was possible because of her and her anti-trans colleagues able to befriend some people in relatively powerful policy development positions and of course in the media.