About The ProJect

Working with a group of peer researchers, this project will develop nuanced understandings of GBV from a Black feminist perspective, through participatory mapping and photovoice.

Photovoice uses participatory photography to identify problems and collectively develop solutions, whilst participatory mapping elicits creative understandings of how Black/Afro, racialised women and LGBTQ+ communities, experience violence across different spaces and territories. Together, these creative approaches will produce much-needed qualitative data capturing conceptualisations of safety and unsafety, rooted in the experiences and understandings of local communities.

This project is funded by the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) programme: ‘Developing innovative approaches to gender-based violence’, supporting 11 research projects to tackle GBV using creative and participatory approaches.