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COMMUNITY CASE STUDY article

Front. Sociol.
Sec. Gender, Sex and Sexualities
Volume 9 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fsoc.2024.1322903
This article is part of the Research Topic Feminist Methodologies in Research on Violence, Displacement, and Power View all 6 articles

Feminist approaches to promoting researcher well-being through collective and organizational care

Provisionally accepted
Catherine Carlson Catherine Carlson 1,2Sylvia Namakula Sylvia Namakula 1Agnes Nabachwa Agnes Nabachwa 1Anik Gevers Anik Gevers 3Kelsey Morgan-Babikov Kelsey Morgan-Babikov 4,5Luciana Giorgio Luciana Giorgio 2Melissa Ticozzi Melissa Ticozzi 2*Sophie Namy Sophie Namy 1
  • 1 Healing and Resilience after Trauma, Kampala, Uganda
  • 2 School of Social Work, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States
  • 3 Consultant, Pretoria, South Africa
  • 4 Other, San Juan Capistrano, United States
  • 5 University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, United States

The final, formatted version of the article will be published soon.

    The proposed manuscript focuses on a particular topic that affects researchers working in the field of violence against women and children: vicarious trauma. As women are often leading and carrying out violence research, they also experience a disproportionate burden of risk of vicarious trauma symptoms. This case study highlights seven collective care strategies for research implemented by Healing and Resilience after Trauma (HaRT), a feminist organization dedicated to holistic healing among survivors of human trafficking and gender-based violence, whose team is entirely composed of women. Given that description, we believe that our manuscript fits within the scope of this special topic, Feminist Methodologies in Research on Violence, Displacement, and Power, because of the research topic, vicarious trauma, and because of the approach used to conduct this study. More specifically, other than the fact that the organization involved, HaRT, is considered a feminist organization, the str

    Keywords: Agnes Nabachwa: Conceptualization, project administration, Validation, Writing -review & editing. Anik Gevers: Conceptualization, supervision, Writing -original draft. Catherine Carlson: Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing -original draft. Kelsey Morgan-Babikov: Funding acquisition

    Received: 20 Nov 2023; Accepted: 20 Sep 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Carlson, Namakula, Nabachwa, Gevers, Morgan-Babikov, Giorgio, Ticozzi and Namy. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Melissa Ticozzi, School of Social Work, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, 35401, Alabama, United States

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