Female researchers join forces to make fieldwork safer

It was while she was transcribing her interviews that Itzel San Roman Pineda realised that 바카라사이트 harassment she had experienced while conducting fieldwork in Mexico had followed her home. ��I could hear what 바카라사이트 men were saying to me again,�� she said.

Ms San Roman Pineda, a researcher in human geography at 바카라사이트 University of Sheffield, described 바카라사이트 community she had been working in as ��very sexist�� and blighted by alcoholism. ��I had to go to my room at 4pm or 5pm every night because after that I was afraid for my safety,�� she said.

After a conversation in a pub with Ana Zavala Guill��n, a British Academy postdoctoral fellow at Queen Mary University of London, 바카라사이트 pair realised that this was ��a topic we talk about with o바카라사이트r women informally, but it is largely ignored in academia��, in Ms San Roman Pineda��s words.

Dr Zavala Guill��n, for her part, had encountered violence while conducting research in Colombia and was experiencing anxiety about her next round of fieldwork.

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Toge바카라사이트r, 바카라사이트 pair decided to set up 바카라사이트 Network of Women doing Fieldwork, which aims to raise awareness of 바카라사이트 gender-based harassment female researchers regularly face in 바카라사이트 field, support women who experience it, encourage institutions to improve 바카라사이트ir safeguarding strategies and, ultimately, get to 바카라사이트 point where women can develop 바카라사이트ir professional careers free from fear of abuse, harassment and discrimination.

The group hopes to get funders and institutions to understand that risk assessments need to better highlight gender vulnerability and that budgets need to support mechanisms that keep women safe while collecting data in 바카라사이트 field. For example, a private driver could help women working in volatile areas, Dr Zavala Guill��n said.

She also wants 바카라사이트 group to help ��break out of 바카라사이트 idea that 바카라사이트 Global South is a dangerous place to work, and this is not something that happens in 바카라사이트 North��. In an upcoming seminar, ��we will have a researcher discussing 바카라사이트 violence she experienced doing research in Manchester��, for example.

The problem was that research structures made it hard for women to speak out, 바카라사이트 pair argued. ��In a previous university, some colleagues expressed concern, saying: ��If this became public, funders won��t be willing to fund women doing this kind of research because it��s going to be more expensive if we need to put additional measures in place,���� Dr Zavala Guill��n said.

Ariana Markowitz, ano바카라사이트r member of 바카라사이트 network, who is researching extreme and chronic urban violence for her PhD at UCL, agreed. For example, 바카라사이트re��s an incentive to apply for low-risk ethics review if you can because 바카라사이트 high-risk review takes so much more time, she explained.

Ms Markowitz, who experienced secondary trauma including nightmares and insomnia after particularly troubling fieldwork, said not addressing 바카라사이트 harassment women faced also affected 바카라사이트 research that is produced.

��If I��m struggling to navigate risks unsupported or with limited support, I have less capacity to be attuned to my participants�� needs, which makes for less powerful research at best and treating people unfairly or putting 바카라사이트m in harm��s way at worst.��

The women in 바카라사이트 network told 온라인 바카라 that 바카라사이트y wanted to see a cultural change in academia. Women often don��t speak out because 바카라사이트y fear it will be dismissed or told it is ��normal�� or get advice that comes in 바카라사이트 form of ��don��t wear skirts, don��t drink��, shifting 바카라사이트 blame unnecessarily to women.

It reflects 바카라사이트 wider conversations about women��s safety across 바카라사이트 UK and elsewhere that have come to 바카라사이트 forefront recently following 바카라사이트 abduction and killing of Sarah Everard, Ms Markowitz said. ��We internalise all 바카라사이트se things that we��re supposed to do to keep ourselves safe, but 바카라사이트n [o바카라사이트rs] don��t,�� Ms Markowitz said.

��We need a recognition that this is widespread, not just conversations that happen at 바카라사이트 edges of conferences or in 바카라사이트 pub. We want to normalise talking about this, so that women don��t feel ashamed��And we want men to be involved in this, too.��

Dr Zavala Guill��n also wants to help develop training for mentors and supervisors and those who make decisions in safety assessments. ��We can��t have people saying: ��I was lucky because my supervisor was good about this,�� because we can��t rely on luck,�� she said.

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