Walking the talk: Journeying towards gender justice at UWC findings from student-centered research
| dc.contributor.author | Palm, Selina | |
| dc.contributor.author | Kayser, Naythan | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-09-30T12:50:37Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-09-30T12:50:37Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2024 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Preventing and responding to gender-based violence (GBV), often with a particular focus on sexual violence (SGBV), has become a critical issue for universities across South Africa. This research report highlights key findings from empirical qualitative research carried out with students and staff at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) from 2022-2023 under the UCDG-funded Gender Equity and Empowerment Project (GEEP). It aims to help UWC better understand and improve institution-wide initiatives related to advancing gender justice and addressing GBV. This involves gaining perspectives from male and female students and student-facing staff and to enable both these groups, as insiders within this space, to contribute towards knowledge production. This research study was led by Dr Selina Palm, an experienced global researcher on GBV, who was situated within the Centre for Student Support Services (CSSS) at UWC over this research period. It takes a comprehensive, intersectional lens on GBV which includes queer violence against gender and sexual minority groups and sees gender justice as fundamentally connected to other social justice issues and wellbeing concerns at UWC including race, socio-economic location, sexuality, disabilities and mental health. Methodology: The overarching research question that guided this study was What lessons can be learned from Gender Equity and Empowerment Program (GEEP) activities (2021-2023) run by CSSS about how to bridge current gaps between policies and practices at UWC around the effective implementation of a holistic institution-wide approach to addressing GBV? In line with the wider GEEP mandate, the research took a comprehensive approach to gender justice based on a body of existing evidence that shows that GBV is entangled with and fuelled by wider patterns of gender inequality. | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Palm, Selina; Kayser, Naythan (2024). Walking the Talk: Journeying toward Gender Justice at the University of the Western Cape (UWC). Online resource. https://hdl.handle.net/10566/20989 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10566/20989 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | University of the Western Cape | |
| dc.subject | Gender justice | |
| dc.subject | Sexual gender ender-based violence | |
| dc.subject | Mental Health | |
| dc.subject | Gender Equity and Empowerment Program (GEEP) | |
| dc.subject | Student voices | |
| dc.title | Walking the talk: Journeying towards gender justice at UWC findings from student-centered research | |
| dc.type | Other |