Dr Kate Lister set up a project with students to commemorate the 17 women murdered in Leeds and Bradford between 1978 and 2010 who were working as sex workers at the time. Among them are women killed by Peter Sutcliffe in the late 1970s and 1980s, as well as Daria Pionko, 21, who was murdered by Lewis Pierre in Leeds in December 2013.
She has now been shortlisted for the Times Higher Education's Most Innovative Teacher of the Year award.
Dr Lister is also a columnist for inews, and is a specialist in the history of sexuality and depiction of sex workers in literature and culture.