Rhiannon Jones is a senior lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University on the undergraduate and postgraduate social work qualifying programme. She has over 15 years′ experience of statutory social work in the field of adults - and particularly older adults - with mental health problems. She has been teaching in the area of sexuality and social work and health practice since 1997. She is currently undertaking her PhD with Sheffield Institute for Studies on Ageing on the topic of sexuality and older people.