Turner is currently completing a PhD with the Centre for Feminist Research, Goldsmiths University of London  on the transgender disinformation crisis. Turner's PhD thesis connects anti-transgender rhetoric to studies of disinformation and an information environment characterised by moral panics about manipulation and coercion, the propagation of falsehoods and the production, organisation, detection, and perception of contagious and deceptive communication. Turner writes a regular substack titled WHIPLASH

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In 2023 Turner was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute for Social and Economic Research & Policy, Columbia University, New York City, with support from the UK International Coronavirus Network and the Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness.  In 2024-2025 Turner is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Chair of Transgender Studies, University of Victoria, B.C, Canada.

 

Turner's writing at the intersection of transgender studies, communication/rhetoric studies and AI can be found or is forthcoming in European Journal of Cultural Studies, The Sociological Review, Culture, Health & Sexuality, Media Theory, The Geographical Journal, New Sociological Perspectives and Sonic Scope: New Approaches to Audiovisual Culture. Turner's public essays can be found or forthcoming in the The Dilettante Army, Soapbox: Journal of Cultural Analysis and Metaphor as Metamorphosis Art Journal .

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Turner is an Associate Lecturer at Central Saint Martins, External Supervisor at the Amsterdam University of the Arts and is regularly invited to lecture/seminar on their specialisms internationally. Turner has previously taught as an Associate Lecturer at the Design School at LCC, University of the Arts London and the Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies and Department of Art/Critical Practice both at Goldsmiths University of London. Turner is also the Governance and Policy Lead at the Museum of Transology, the worlds largest collection of material culture relating to trans, non binary and intersex lives.

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Turner has been an invited to speak and teach at Universities including among others the University of Victoria (CA), Columbia University (USA), University of Pennsylvania (USA), New York University (USA), Cambridge University (UK), Kings College London (UK), University of Amsterdam (NE), Goethe University Frankfurt (DE) and at institutions such as the British Education Research Association (UK), the Museum Association (UK), National Centre for Research Methods (UK), the Henry Moore Institute (UK), Niewue Institute, Rotterdam (NL), BFI Flare Festival (UK) Space Station Sixty-Five (UK), Trans+OnScreen (UK) among others.

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Upcoming Public Events:

Turner, C. (2025, 21 October) 'Roundtable: ALWAYS READ THE LABEL' Re:Generating Creativity, ​Lethaby Gallery, Central Saint Martins, London, 17 September - 7 December 2025. [Invited Participant]​​​​

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Turner, C. (2025, 30 October) 'Cis-Tems of Verification: Interrogating the "Truth" of Transgender Disinformation' 2nd European Congress on Disinformation and Fact Checking, Madrid, Spain. [Invited Speaker]​​

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Turner, C. (2025, 12 November) 'Sex and Lies: Transgender Archiving Practices against the Disinformation Agenda' Power for the People: Art, Protest and the Archives of Activism,  Henry Moore Institute. [Invited Speaker]

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Turner, C. (2025, 14 November) 'Against Inclusion: Trans Museology in the Era of Disinformation' Information Lives in DIY Culture, Media and Digital Culture Group, Manchester Metropolitan University. [Invited Speaker]

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