While dialogue and policy on Black children in the UK education system typically focuses on Black boys, there is little research centring the unique experiences of Black girls in British schools. Of the research that exists, we often see a ‘copy and paste’ application of the educational experiences of Black girls in America, where more substantial research exists. The vital differences and visceral nuances of Black girlhood in Britain are neglected in such studies.
This piece of research sits as a corrective. It builds on See Us, Hear Us: On girlhood and growing up Black in Lambeth, a pilot research study commissioned by Milk Honey Bees in 2023, which explored the complexities, nuances and experiences of girlhood whilst living in the London Borough of Lambeth.
This report was written by Njilan Morris-Jarra and Ebinehita Iyere, with research undertaken by 6 peer researchers and co-ordinated by Sophie Arinde. Milk Honey Bees is a creative and expressive safe space for Black girls to flourish and put H.E.R (Healing, Empowerment and Resilience) first.
This brief highlights how the war in Gaza has deeply affected women and girls, from rising deaths and injuries to hunger, displacement, and loss of healthcare and education. It calls for urgent action to protect civilians and ensure aid reaches those most at risk.
This policy paper provides key insights into the intersection of gender and disability within care and support environments. It emphasizes that developing comprehensive and inclusive care systems is essential for promoting gender equality and protecting the rights of both care recipients and caregivers, especially persons with disabilities.
The open research movement is strongly imbricated with ethical concerns. More transparent research, it is said, reduces the possibility for fraudulent or questionable research practices, while ensuring more clearly defined research processes. On the other hand, some argue that aspects of open research such as open data should be treated with caution due to potential risks to anonymity, particularly for research with participants from marginalised communities.
One area of importance for the intersection of open research and ethics is gender. It has been noted how open research, requiring a certain degree of institutional support and available research time, can both retrench academic power hierarchies, and lead to procedural approaches that are dismissive of research that does not fit the mould. Such attitudes that are “condescending, forthright, aggressive, overpowering, and lacking kindness and self-awareness" have been labeled as “#bropenscience” (Whitaker & Guest, 2020). Brabeck (2021) notes how open research policies often take “gender-blind” approaches and how open science’s privileging of objectivity promotes patriarchal values. Other ethical questions arise about which researchers adhere to “bare minimum” required open practices, and which seek to embed openness more holistically, and why.
This event brought together researchers from a variety of fields to explore what we can learn – and what is left out – at the intersection of open research, gender, and ethics.
The event was chaired by Professor Denisa Kostovicova, Professor in Global Politics and Director of LSEE Research on South Eastern Europe, European Institute, LSE.
The event featured the following speakers:
- Dr Koen Slootmaeckers, Reader International Politics (E&R), School of Policy and Global Affairs of City, University of London. - Professor Vjollca Krasniqi, Professor of Sociology, University of Prishtina - Dr Indraneel Sircar, Associate Professor (Teaching) in Quantitative Research Methods and Political Science, UCL
The Centre for Young Lives has published a blog about its research with Agenda Alliance on the mental health of young women and girls in the UK. The research included an evidence review, a roundtable discussion, and interviews with stakeholders from the women and girls’ sector, youth and mental health sectors. The report discusses the prevalence of mental health problems among girls and young women; their experiences with mental health services; and the role of philanthropy in bridging gaps in mental health support. It sets out ten recommendations to illustrate how philanthropy can deliver change for girls and young women’s mental health and help to strengthen the sector.
This fascinating blog post by a records specialist showcases a selection of historic letters displayed in the 2026 National Archives Love Letters exhibition, along with responses from visitors.
They include same‑sex love, forbidden love, and other expressions of intimacy, including some which at various points in history were criminalised. The visitors’ responses document their emotions and experiences using visual, written, and audio methods.
IMF’s policy advice on tax in its Article IV reports since the pandemic has been skewed towards regressive taxation. This indicates its continued insistence on austerity as the default way forward, thereby entrenching gender and economic inequalities.
An Open Letter, signed by over 100 organisations and coordinated by Hague Mothers, is trying to remove Clause 104 of the UK’s Crime & Policing Bill, which will criminalise DV victim-survivors who flee the country with their children to keep them safe. They are asking people to write to their MPs about the issue. For more information, please email advocacyhague@filia.org.uk
An online exhibition curated by AMNESTY WCARO which examines the persecution of women for witchcraft in Northern Ghana through the voices and experiences of women accused. The site has a 3d tour and exhibition catalogue
Great news @lse.library has just digitised the Townswoman 1933-1954
https://digital.library.lse.ac.uk/ The Townswomen's Guilds were founded in 1929 by Eva Hubback and Dame Margery Corbett Ashby. The aim of the organisation was to educate women to be citizens. The journals are a fascinating source of information on an interwar women's organisation - the type of events they organised, local branch activities. Examples of welfare campaigns and activism at a grassroots level. find out more: https://archives.lse.ac.uk/records/5TGH
Who Pays the Price? is a comprehensive study on the relationship between sovereign debt and gender inequality. Produced under UNDP’s EQUANOMICS initiative, the research analysed data from 85 developing countries between 1990 and 2022. It finds that when countries move from moderate to high debt servicing, the equivalent of 55 million women’s jobs are at stake and maternal mortality increases by 32.5 per cent, equivalent to 67 additional deaths per 100,000 live births.
This publication examines how AI-enabled online violence is escalating harm against women in public life. Drawing on global survey data, it highlights mental health impacts, growing self-censorship, limited redress, and the urgent need for stronger accountability, protection, and legal responses.
Young women are persistently absent from policymaking, but are overrepresented in experiences of financial stress, gender-based violence, medical misogyny and climate anxiety. This policy brief, written by young women, presents the most pressing policy issues impacting young Australians, and calls on the Australian Government to resource their expertise and safeguard their futures.
Editors of the interdisciplinary journals Feminist Studies, Feminist Formations, Frontiers, and Signs discuss the second Trump administration’s attacks on women’s and gender studies.
Understanding Technology-Facilitated Gender-based Violence (TFGBV) in the Philippines Understanding TFGBV in the Philippines Since 2012, the Foundation for Media Alternatives (FMA) has documented 738 cases of Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence (TFGBV) in the Philippines in its Read more
This is a great oral history project which aims to capture the early days of the Women’s Aid Federation of England (WAFE), 1974–1984. There are 12 interviews carried out between 2022 and 2024. They offer insight into women’s support for survivors of domestic violence and grassroots advocacy. Details of the main archive are provided on the website.
Mrs Justice Lieven of the High Court has handed down her judgment in the case of University of Sussex v Office for Students. She concludes that the regulator falsely treated the Sussex trans and non-binary equality policy statement as a governing document, and did not read the policy in the light of the university’s freedom of speech code of practice. She also found that there was strong evidence of predetermination throughout the process by which OfS investigated and fined Sussex for a breach of its freedom of speech duty.
The Global Misogyny News Coverage Tracker unearths endemic violence against women yet low coverage of these stories. Across 1.14bn articles, misogyny-related coverage hit a 1.3% low in 2025. Survivor-, solutions- and system- based angles are needed.
the Dag Hammarskjöld Library has now digitised over 690 documents from the 1980 World Conference of the United Nations Decade for Women: Equality, Development and Peace” convened in Copenhagen, Denmark, from 14 to 30 July 1980, This was the second global gathering on women during the United Nations Decade for Women (1976–1985). It served as a mid-decade review of progress made since the first World Conference on Women in Mexico City in 1975.all the documents are prefixed by the symbol These documents, identified by the series symbol A/CONF.94/–,
Women constitute the majority of older persons globally, and the number of older women is projected to increase rapidly over the next decades. Although women live longer than men on average, they tend to spend a higher proportion of their later years living in poor health or with disability, often due to a higher burden of non-communicable diseases and chronic conditions. Integrating a gender perspective into health, social protection and care systems is critical to improve the quality of life of all older persons and to enable their full contributions to advancing sustainable development.
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