The Role of the Intimacy Coordinator: New depictions of sex and consent in UK television culture

This project explores the relatively new role of the intimacy coordinator, which came to the fore following the viral #MeToo movement in 2017. With a focus on UK television culture, the study examines the significance of the profession in ensuring that on-set production practices are safer for everyone involved, and that intimate scenes are handled with care. It looks closely at the connections between offscreen practices of care and onscreen depictions of intimacy and considers the extent to which intimacy coordination is helping to engender creative new ways of depicting sex, intimacy, and consent.