Nicola Gavey (born 1960) is a New Zealand psychology academic. She is currently a full professor at the University of Auckland.^[1]

After a 1985 MA titled 'Depressive self-schemata and gender-schemata in women' ^[2] and a 1990 PhD titled 'Rape and sexual coercion within heterosexual relationships : an intersection of psychological, feminist, and postmodern inquiries' at the University of Auckland,^[3] she joined the staff, rising to full professor.^[1]

Much of Gavey's research focuses on the gender politics, sexuality, rape and coercion, and often features in the press.^{[4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]}

• Gavey, Nicola. (1989) "Feminist poststructuralism and discourse analysis: Contributions to feminist psychology." Psychology of Women Quarterly 13 (4): 459–475.
• Gavey, Nicola. (1991) "Sexual victimization prevalence among New Zealand university students." Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 59 (3): 464.
• Gavey, Nicola. (1992) "Technologies and effects of heterosexual coercion." Feminism & Psychology 2 (3): 325–351.
• McPhillips, Kathryn, Virginia Braun, and Nicola Gavey. (2001) "Defining (hetero) sex: how imperative is the “coital imperative”?." In Women's Studies International Forum, 24 (2): 229–240.
• Braun, Virginia, Nicola Gavey, and Kathryn McPhillips. (2003) "The fair deal'? Unpacking accounts of reciprocity in heterosex." Sexualities 6 (2): 237–261.
• Gavey, Nicola. (2013) Just sex?: The cultural scaffolding of rape. Routledge.