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What is Gender Focus?
Gender Focus is an online platform for insights from research projects implemented by the University of Portsmouth’s International Development Group and partners.
Featured: Life Solved podcast episode featuring Tamsin Bradley now live
In this episode of Life Solved, Professor Tamsin Bradley explains how innovative research into violence against women is informing international development organisations on how to respond to crises.
Featured: The Displacement Narrators storytelling method
The Displacement Narrators method has been trialled on an Economic and Social Research Council project in Myanmar and Nepal.
At Gender Focus, we highlight new research and research methods around issues such as ending violence against women and girls, promoting social inclusion (including gender, disability and mental health), and harmful cultural practices including female genital mutilation, forced marriage and breast ironing.
Professor Tamsin Bradley, University of Portsmouth
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Professor Tamsin Bradley, University of Portsmouth
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Insights and stories
Podcast: South Sudan’s Political History and Conditions for Girls and Women
https://play.acast.com/s/60a3725027ea8a332f3b52ae/63a2deeeea58090011407bfa Researchers in South Sudan are making breakthroughs in communities that are challenging violence against women and girls, in spite of a turbulent cultural…
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South Sudan’s embroidered bedsheets shed light on the art heritage lens in gender and resilience research
In South Sudan, female milaya artists are well known for beautiful embroidery on bedsheets and pillows.
Displacement Narrator insights from Nepal: January to March 2022
This blog shares insights from ‘Displacement Narrators’. These narrators work with our project team to tell us about major changes and events in the community context. They give voice to community concerns from around Biratnagar Municipality in Nepal.
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Becoming a gender activist in Kenya
Adan Omar Jaldesa tells the story of how he became a gender rights activist in Kenya. Like many other young and innovative, activists and…
The Celebritisation of Misogyny and What it Reveals about the Global Backlash to Women’s Rights
The verdict ruling in favour of the global film celebrity Jonny Depp lay raw the toxic violent nature of his relationship with ex-wife Amber…
Narrating the Community Experience of Gender Based Violence (GBV)
Gender based violence is a major global problem and is normalised in different ways in different contexts. Research on the topic of GBV that can lead to behaviour change is essential, but the usual quantitative and qualitative research tools don’t give us the whole story
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