All Outputs (25)

An ethics of care in migration research and intercultural education (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This workshop shares our learnings as migration researchers, educators and practitioners who have collaborated with families, young people and children over several decades. We explore the ethical, epistemological, and methodological theory and pract... Read More about An ethics of care in migration research and intercultural education.

Towards attentive, playful arts-based methodology with children (2024)
Journal Article

This paper shares methodological insights from our research which sought to centre children in the production of knowledge during the 2020 global pandemic to consider how this can inform research with children beyond the crisis. Drawing on our longit... Read More about Towards attentive, playful arts-based methodology with children.

Rethinking Visual Arts–Based Methods of Knowledge Generation and Exchange in and beyond the Pandemic (2022)
Journal Article

This inaugural special issue of ‘Beyond the Text’ brings together a collection of visual arts (animation, creative and fine art, film, photographs, and zines) produced by children, young people, families, artists, and academics as part of co-created... Read More about Rethinking Visual Arts–Based Methods of Knowledge Generation and Exchange in and beyond the Pandemic.

Seeing as an Act of Hearing: Making Visible Children’s Experiences of the COVID-19 Pandemic Through Participatory Animation (2022)
Journal Article

‘Our Voices’ is an animation co-created with children aged 9–11 during the 2020–2021 global pandemic. A short, stop-start animation of children’s visual, audio and textual representations of their experiences offers a visceral account of the pandemic... Read More about Seeing as an Act of Hearing: Making Visible Children’s Experiences of the COVID-19 Pandemic Through Participatory Animation.

Back Chat: A zine created with children aged 11-12 about their lives during the coronavirus pandemic and the period after, told though their images and words (2022)
Book

‘Back Chat’ is a zine that was created with children aged 11-12 about their lives during the coronavirus pandemic and the period after, told though their images and words. Funded by the British Academy (grant number: SRG2021\211308), this project was... Read More about Back Chat: A zine created with children aged 11-12 about their lives during the coronavirus pandemic and the period after, told though their images and words.

Creating online participatory research spaces (2022)
Journal Article

Our article draws on research undertaken with children during the 2020–21 COVID-19 pandemic in order to consider the potential of digitally mediated participatory research for child-centred research practice. Our specific focus is on how children’s i... Read More about Creating online participatory research spaces.

‘Our Voices’ (2021)
Digital Artefact

‘Our Voices’ is an animation that was created with 16 children aged 9-11 during the 2020-2021 global pandemic in direct response to the critique that children have been seen but little heard during the pandemic. As part of our research project Corona... Read More about ‘Our Voices’.

Narratives of motherhood (2021)
Book Chapter

Focusing on the subjective and relational nature of stories and storytelling, in this chapter the authors adopt a feminist narrative approach to understand the way in which mothering identities are constructed through storytelling in the context of a... Read More about Narratives of motherhood.

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ) forced migrants and asylum seekers (2021)
Book Chapter

This chapter addresses the issue of forced migration amongst lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTQI) Africans based on original empirical material from qualitative studies conducted in South Africa with refugees from countries incl... Read More about Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ) forced migrants and asylum seekers.

‘Do No Harm’: Experiences and Impacts of FGM Safeguarding, Bristol Study (2021)
Report

Since the 2014 Girl Summit, the UK government has introduced a swathe of legislative changes and new safeguarding measures to protect girls from Female genital mutilation (FGM). This study, carried out by FORWARD and the University of Huddersfield, e... Read More about ‘Do No Harm’: Experiences and Impacts of FGM Safeguarding, Bristol Study.

Creating feminist spaces: occupying hostile environments (2020)
Journal Article

We are a new, small and emerging social justice network of feminist activists, academics and community workers, building a collaborative, capacity-releasing feminist network by making connections between UK and globally-based allied projects of resis... Read More about Creating feminist spaces: occupying hostile environments.

Vulnerability as lived experience (2020)
Book Chapter

This chapter explores the concept of ‘vulnerability’ in relation to marginalised groups of women and girls in the UK by focusing on composite findings from co-authors’ empirical research. The chapter draws on qualitative research with women and girls... Read More about Vulnerability as lived experience.

Rethinking stories of transnational mothering in the context of international study (2018)
Journal Article

Women’s migration has facilitated diverse understandings of both mothering and motherhood. Despite this, transnational mothering tends to be understood in narrowly defined terms, largely associated with economic necessity, with alternative motivation... Read More about Rethinking stories of transnational mothering in the context of international study.

New and enduring narratives of vulnerability: rethinking stories about the figure of the refugee (2018)
Journal Article

The role of vulnerability in relation to mechanisms of governance and social welfare practices has received growing interest, but how ‘vulnerability’ is operationalised in asylum policy is less well understood. This paper explores narratives of vulne... Read More about New and enduring narratives of vulnerability: rethinking stories about the figure of the refugee.

Feminist narrative research: Challenges and opportunities. (2017)
Book

This book explores the rich, diverse opportunities and challenges afforded by research that analyses the stories told by, for and about women. Bringing together feminist scholarship and narrative approaches, it draws on empirical material, social the... Read More about Feminist narrative research: Challenges and opportunities..

Moving forward : opportunities and challenges (2017)
Book Chapter

As we conclude this collection, we reflect on some of the exciting, rich and diverse opportunities and challenges presented by feminist narrative research. Providing a unique contribution to discussions about why and how feminist researchers might us... Read More about Moving forward : opportunities and challenges.

Introduction : doing feminist narrative research (2017)
Book Chapter

The aim of this collection is to bring together feminist scholarship and narrative research in order to explore how feminist narrative research can be employed to understand and potentially improve the lives of self-identified women. The collection i... Read More about Introduction : doing feminist narrative research.

Women, Asylum and Resistance: A Feminist Narrative Approach to Making Sense of Stories (2017)
Book Chapter

Drawing on Economic and Social Research Council funded research that I conducted with women seeking asylum in the UK and taking a feminist narrative approach, I examine the narratives told about people seeking asylum and look at some of the ways wome... Read More about Women, Asylum and Resistance: A Feminist Narrative Approach to Making Sense of Stories.

Telling Stories of Resistance and Ruination: Women Seeking Asylum (2016)
Journal Article

This paper examines the relationships between narratives which have come to dominate in the twenty-first century about people seeking asylum and women’s stories of resistance and ruination. Identifying two narratives—the “hate figure” and the “female... Read More about Telling Stories of Resistance and Ruination: Women Seeking Asylum.

Asylum support for children and young people living in Kirklees : stories of mothers (2015)
Other

Executive Summary
The report is based on a one-year pilot study by academic practitioners at WomenCentre, Kirklees, funded by the Nationwide Children’s Research Centre.

This study has taken a localised approach to the Parliamentary Inquiry (2... Read More about Asylum support for children and young people living in Kirklees : stories of mothers.