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Meg Barker is a registered psychotherapist with the UK Council for Psychotherapy, and a lecturer in psychology with The Open University.

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The Bisexuality Report  Featuring: audio, Creative Commons Image gem fountain via Flickr under Creative Comms license

By Dr Meg Barker (The Open University)

22 February 2012

According to a new report written by Open University academics, bisexuals endure worse mental health problems and suffer from an equality gap.  Read more : The Bisexuality Report

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By Dr Meg Barker (The Open University)

21 December 2011

Meg Barker reflects on how groups of people choose to live together in shared accommodation  Read more : The importance of alternative household arrangements

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By Dr Meg Barker (The Open University)

24 August 2011

As Thinking Allowed explores home life, does our idea of what a proper relationship is like match up to the way we really live?  Read more : The gap that lovers must fill: What exactly is a 'conventional' relationship?

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Barker, Meg and Gill, Rosalind (2012). Sexual subjectification and Bitchy Jones's Diary. Psychology and Sexuality, 3(1), pp. 26–40.

Barker, Meg; Yockney, Jen; Richards, Christina; Jones, Rebecca; Bowes-Catton, Helen and Plowman, Tracey (2012). Guidelines for researching and writing about bisexuality. Journal of Bisexuality, 12(3),

Langdridge, Darren; Barker, Meg; Reavey, Paula and Stenner, Paul (2012). Becoming a subject: a memory work study of the experience of romantic jealousy. Forum: Qualitative Social Research

Barker, Meg (2011). De Beauvoir, Bridget Jones' pants and vaginismus. Existential Analysis: Journal of the Society for Existential Analysis, 22(2), pp. 203–216.

Barker, Meg (2011). Writing for publication for counsellors and therapists, Part 2. Sexual and Relationship Therapy, 26(2), pp. 191–198.

Barker, Meg (2011). Writing for publication for counsellors and therapists, Part 3. Sexual and Relationship Therapy, 26(2), pp. 199–206.

Barker, Meg; Richards, Christina; Jones, Rebecca and Monro, Surya (2011). BiReCon: An International Academic Conference on Bisexuality. Journal of Bisexuality, 11(2-3), pp. 157–170.

Barker, Meg (2011). Existential sex therapy. Sexual and Relationship Therapy, 26(1), pp. 33–47.

Barker, Meg (2011). Writing for publication for counsellors and therapists: part I. Sexual and Relationship Therapy, 26(1), 96 -102.

Bowes-Catton, Helen; Barker, Meg and Richards, Christina (2011). ‘I didn’t know that I could feel this relaxed in my body’: Using visual methods to research bisexual people’s embodied experiences of identity and space. In: Reavey, Paula ed. Visual Methods in psychology: using and interpreting images in qualitative research. London: Routledge, pp. 255–270.

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The gap that lovers must fill: What exactly is a 'conventional' relationship?

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I found this article very interesting, as I have noticed that in many single friends there is a tendency to assume that if they were in a relationship everything that ails them would be different,... Read more : The gap that lovers must fill: What exactly is a 'conventional' relationship?

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