Date: 12^th January 2016

12:30-1pm networking lunch (lunch provided)

1-2pm seminar and discussion

Venue: C1.11, Centre for Education Studies, Social Sciences Building, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL

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Dr Jenny Parkes, UCL Institute of Education

“Collaborating in Research to Stop Violence Against Girls in Schools”

In this seminar, Jenny will share research from Action Aid’s Stop Violence Against Girls initiative in Kenya, Ghana and Mozambique. This multi-partnered project worked over five years (2008-2013), combining advocacy, community intervention and research. The research included mixed methods baseline and endline studies, and qualitative longitudinal studies. During the seminar, Jenny will share reflections on the research design, some of the key findings on change over the course of the project, and some of the challenges and potential of collaborative, multi-country, multi-partner research.

About Jenny Parkes:

Jenny Parkes is a Reader at UCL Institute of Education, whose research focuses on education, gender and violence against young people. She has led research projects on girls’ and boys’ engagements with urban violence in South Africa and the UK; violence against girls in mainly rural contexts of Kenya, Ghana and Mozambique; and is currently working with UNICEF on research to strengthen policy and practice on school related gender-based violence in Ethiopia, Zambia, Togo and Cote d’Ivoire. Her teaching is mainly on Gender, Education and International Development. Her recent edited book Gender Violence in Poverty Contexts: the Educational Challenge won the Jackie Kirk Outstanding Book Award 2016.

This seminar has been supported by the Faculty of Social Sciences.