Sinawe Mama! Wits RHI

Sinawe Mama! ("We are with you Mother!") Abigail Hatcher [email protected] Although violence in pregnancy effects one-third of South African women, few programs exist to address it. We are...

GENDER BIAS IN ENGINEERING: ROOT CAUSE ~ 16 MIN

This video summarizes research on 5,130 degreed engineers, 4,266 men and 864 women. The research finds systematic differences between men and women engineers that effect how engineering is done. These...

GBV Science Fair: Family-centred intervention for family violence

The aim of the study is to create a family-centred intervention for family violence in order to reduce violence within the family. The study is a 3 phase study in which phase 1 consists of a quantitat...

GBV Science Fair: Sexual Violence and Women's Health: Educating Future Clinicians

Medical schools are currently failing to adequately teach students about the impacts of GBV and how to care for patients who are survivors of GBV. This research aims to provide recommendation for a GB...

GBV Science Fair: Assisting Girls to fight GBV in Schools

It is a program designed to assist girls to fight sexuall violence in schools and in the community around the school. It is supported by the stakeholder Forums which comprises of the police, the nurse...

Engineering Professors: Gender Gatekeepers

Engineering Professors: Gender Gatekeepers. This evidence-based study analyzes a sample of 155 engineering and 285 non-engineering tenured and tenure track professors. The study finds that the enginee...

GBV 5-Minute Science Fair

Karen McDonnell, Associate professor in prevention and community health at the George Washington University, School of Public Health. Disusses Proyeto VOCES, Project VOICES. A multiphase approach wit...

2012 Three Minute Thesis People's Choice Award - Ludmilla Khodai

Ludmilla Khodai (School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences) won the People's Choice Award at the 2012 UNSW Three Minute Thesis competition with her presentation - "Forced gen...

Sexual Exploitation of young men and transgender in Cambodia

Dr. Glenn Miles [email protected] “A Baseline Study of Sexually-Exploited Young Men in Colombo, Sri Lanka” Sexual violence and exploitation of women and girls in South and Southeast Asia is starting ...

Salvadorean Civil War

Professor of Political Science at Yale University, Prof. Elisabeth Woods current research focuses on sexual violence during war. She is the author of Insurgent Collective Action and Civil War in El Sa...

GBV Science Fair: Kuranja Muraya

Kuranja Muraya is a researcher and part of The Social Welfare Development program in Kenya. The program recently carried out research on the extent and forms of GBV in Kenyan primary schools. Children...

Experiences of Trauma Services in Northern Uganda

Dr Helen Liebling [email protected] Experiences of Trauma Services in Northern Uganda: Implications for Mental Health Policy and Legislation British Academy and Leverhulme Trust-funded qualitativ...

Can family doctors help abused women: Lessons from the WEAVE project

Kelsey Hegarty [email protected] Can family doctors help abused women: Lessons from the WEAVE project WEAVE tests the effect of brief counseling by family doctors for abused women. Around 13%...

Methods of Indoctrination and Control in the Lord's Resistance Army

Jocelyn Kelly [email protected] Methods of Indoctrination and Control in the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) The LRA is a rebel movement known for its widespread conscription of children; yet little is ...

'Do No Harm': Women's economic empowerment & violence against women in Melanesia

The 'Do No Harm' research will address the relationship between economic inclusion and empowerment programs and violence against women in three countries (Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea...

Bias against Women Alleging Abuse in Family Courts

Bias against Women Alleging Abuse in Family Courts:Clinical Prof. Joan Meier bridges theory and practice in her work on domestic violence, which focuses on courts' responses to mothers who seek to pro...

A candid discussion on gender research, with Stephen Hall and Patrick Dugan

Stephen Hall and Patrick Dugan sit down to have a candid conversation about the state of gender research, and where they see the future of research for development heading in a gender transformative w...

Gender Constancy Theory

Gender Constancy Theory - an introduction...

GBV Science Fair: Making a Difference on the Front Lines of Prevention

300 women and 300 children who reach out for abuse services for the first time are being followed for 7 years to determine what predicts outcomes of resiliency, safety, better mental health, and optim...

GBV Science Fair: Kgauhelo Lekalakala

A qualitative study on perpetrator explanations for sexual abuse of young children conducted in South African prisons and communities. Perpetrators, carers and professionals were interviewed mainly in...