Addressing violence against women in pre-service health training
IRWG affiliate Vijay Singh contributes to WHO Training Guide Dr. Vijay Singh’s 2017 IRWG Faculty Seed Grant was used to travel to, then deliver and evaluate a medical student training at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) School of Medical Sciences in Ghana in 2018. The training was on healthcare identification and response to ...
What Real Cases Teach us about Human Trafficking
March 2021 When you think of human trafficking, what images come to mind? Last month, Professor Elizabeth Campbell spoke about misconceptions, research gaps, the various experiences and complex needs of survivors of trafficking, in a webinar sponsored by IRWG’s Initiative on Gender Based Violence and Sexual Harassment. Campbell is a clinical assistant professor and co-director ...
The Development of the MiStory International Trauma Recovery Research Consortium
The Multicultural Study of Trauma Recovery (MiStory) is an international research consortium working to understand how context, culture, the self, gender, and trauma recovery intersect. Directed by Professor Denise Saint Arnault with funding in part from IRWG seed grants, the collaborative currently has 30 members from 13 countries across several continents, and continues to grow. ...
How I Spent My Summer at IRWG
by Tuğçe Kayaal In summer 2020, I worked as a graduate student research assistant for IRWG’s multidisciplinary gender-based violence (GBV) and sexual harassment project. In my academic research, I explore various forms of gender-based violence in different historical settings with a focus on the Middle East. This assistantship was my first job in which I had ...