Heslop, Joanne Rachel;
(2024)
Reaching across boundaries to strengthen meaningful research, policy and practice in school-related gender-based violence: Reflections from collaborations in five African countries.
Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), UCL (University College London).
Abstract
As school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV) becomes increasingly acknowledged as commonplace across the world, as a human rights violation, and as a major barrier to achieving global development goals, there has been an urgency in seeking good quality evidence that can effectively guide policy and practice. However, in interrogating the field of SRGBV research, this thesis identifies how conceptual, methodological and empirical limitations and boundaries have hampered the knowledge base. This PhD by Publication comprises five of my publications and an integrative summary. These publications were produced through three collaborative projects in sub-Saharan Africa between 2008 and 2019, and worked to address many of these limitations and reach across these boundaries. The projects worked at different scales and levels of complexity, from grassroots to global policy, and involved many partners and areas of work, creating certain challenges but also great potential for learning, particularly in identifying how to produce high-quality, high-impact research on SRGBV. The integrative summary explains how this research makes contributions to three areas. First, my research generates knowledge on how contextual, structural, material and discursive conditions and processes shape sexual coercion and agency for girls and young women. Second, I demonstrate how a multidimensional conceptualisation of SRGBV in which stigma, subjective meanings and power relations are significant, supports the production of high quality, trustworthy research, and I demonstrate how mixed methods research can contribute to this. Third, I develop impact and connectivity between research, policy and practice on SRGBV through research working at this nexus. Spaces for collaboration with diverse research and action teams enable dialogue on the context and meanings of, and actions to challenge, gender violence.
| Type: | Thesis (Doctoral) |
|---|---|
| Qualification: | Ph.D |
| Title: | Reaching across boundaries to strengthen meaningful research, policy and practice in school-related gender-based violence: Reflections from collaborations in five African countries |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © The Author 2024. Original content in this thesis is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Any third-party copyright material present remains the property of its respective owner(s) and is licensed under its existing terms. Access may initially be restricted at the author’s request. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Education, Practice and Society |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10193337 |
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