The Immobilities of Gender-based Violence in Lockdown

Devising Workshops to Support Women Who Experienced Gender-Based Violence During the COVID-19 Pandemic to Tell and Share Their Stories

Authors

  • Mel Parks University of Brighton Author
  • Jessica Moriarty University of Brighton Author
  • Hannah Vincent Open University, New Writing South Author

Keywords:

gender-based violence, creative writing workshops, trioethnography, storytelling for change

Abstract

This article reports on a UK-wide, transdisciplinary project between creative writers and social scientists that was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), exploring how storytelling workshops with women who experienced gender-based violence (GBV) in lockdown could be used to inform and change social and legal policies. The article is split into two sections: in the first, we give an outline of the project and how the creative workshops were devised, and in the second, we adopt a trioethnographic stance, enabling us to contextualise and present our dialogues that 1) reflect on our lived experience of devising the workshops and 2) draw on interview data with writers and artists who co-led the project to make recommendations for workshop facilitation with people who have experienced GBV.

Author Biographies

  • Mel Parks, University of Brighton

    Mel Parks is a writer, editor, researcher, and facilitator who has completed numerous writing and public engagement projects.

  • Jessica Moriarty, University of Brighton

    Jessica Moriarty is Principal Lecturer in Creative Writing and Course Leader for the Creative Writing MA at the University of Brighton.

  • Hannah Vincent , Open University, New Writing South

    Hannah Vincent is a novelist and award-winning playwright. She teaches creative writing on the Open University’s MA and life writing on the Autobiography and Life Writing programme at New Writing South.

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Published

01-09-2022

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 2 (2022)

Section

Articles

License

Copyright (c) 2022 Mel Parks, Jessica Moriarty, Hannah Vincent (Author)

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

How to Cite

Parks, M., Moriarty, J., & Vincent , H. (2022). The Immobilities of Gender-based Violence in Lockdown: Devising Workshops to Support Women Who Experienced Gender-Based Violence During the COVID-19 Pandemic to Tell and Share Their Stories. LIRIC Journal, 2(2), 53–76. https://liric.lapidus.org.uk/index.php/lirj/article/view/47