Gender based violence and sexual abuse has a significant impact on the lives and health of all those who experience it. It also impacts on the well being of the wider family including children. Globally, it is a significant public health and societal issue.
Gender-based violence and sexual abuse has historically been largely invisible. Our project explores creative expression and letter-writing by women with lived experience of GBV in collaboration with our South African partner Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University in Pretoria, funded by the Global Challenge Research Fund (ethics approval: University of Nottingham).
Results from this collaboration
Hinsliff-Smith, K., McGarry, J., Randa, M.B., Bartel, H., Langmack, G. (2022) ‘Use of writing letters and other literature forms to capture experiences of research participants,’ in Hinsliff-Smith, McGarry, J., Ali, P. (eds) Arts based health care research: a multidisciplinary perspective. (Cham: Springer), pp. 121-136.
Online training tool for healthcare and other practitioners for which women from South Africa shared their personal stories of survivorship in open letters written in our arts-based workshops held in Pretoria.
Online training tool on academic writing to address to support researchers globally.