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Funded research Projects
This page offers an overview of some of the funded research I've conducted.
My research encompasses on the areas of feminist, critical, and health psychology.
As indicated below, my main focus area is sexual and reproductive health, but I also do research related to gender and sexual identities more broadly.
I'm especially interested how social identities (such as gender, race, and class) affect the ways people can have relationships, make decisions, and act in relation to sexuality and reproduction. I therefore use qualitative research techniques to illuminate the societal environment surrounding sexual and reproductive practices, decisions, and relationships.
The reason I do this work is to help identify contextual issues that need to be addressed so that people can realise their sexual and reproductive rights. I am strongly motivated by sexual and reproductive justice.
Projects I've played had a major role in winning funding and project leadership as Principal/Co-principal Investigator.
1. SEXUAL & REPRODUCTIVE DECISION-MAKING
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Queer kinship: the sexual politics of family-making and belonging (2015)
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Gay men’s decision-making about fatherhood (2014)
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The Childfree 'choice': A transnational online ethnography of voluntary childlessness (2012-13)
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Men's involvement in parenthood decision-making (Doctoral study) (2007 – 2010)
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2. SEXUAL & REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH & RIGHTS
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‘Communities ensuring safe learning environments for girls’: Impact evaluation of sexual violence pilot intervention (2015–19)
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Making Sexual & Reproductive Health & Rights Real: Research to inform SRH interventions for marginalised groups in South Africa (2015-17)
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3. GENDER & SEXUALITY
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Development of a National Gender Policy Framework for the Dept Basic Education (DBE) South Africa (2013)