Lockdown GBV Stories

Lockdown GBV Stories: The immobilities of gender-based violence during the Covid-19 pandemic is research project using stories to study GBV in the pandemic. In particular, we're looking at changes in the ways we use and move around spaces and how the restrictions in movement has affected experiences of GBV.

We value creative work in this research and have created a series of workshops and creative cafés to help you tell your story - this can be through words (speaking or writing), stitch, collage and image or drawing. Click here to add your story.

Your story will respond to your experience of the immobilities of gender-based violence (GBV) during the time of the Covid-19 pandemic. Your experience of GBV in the pandemic might be imagined – for example remembering previous experiences – or experienced during, between or after the lockdowns.

GBV for us means acts of physical, emotional and sexual violence, including rape, stalking and harassment experienced because of your gender. And we’re interested in how people experience it across different spaces – this could be in the home, out in the street, on public transport, online, at work, or on college campuses. These experiences could also be related to the intersections of gender with race, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, age etc.

About us

We are an interdisciplinary team of five researchers: Lesley Murray, Associate Professor in sociology in the School of Applied Social Science at the University of Brighton; Jess Moriarty, Principal Lecturer in creative writing in the school of Humanities; Amanda Holt, Reader in criminology at the University of Roehampton and Sian Lewis, Lecturer in criminology at the University of Plymouth; and Mel Parks, writer and researcher at the University of Brighton. We are working with experts in story-writing, creativity and GBV: Hannah Vincent, Miranda Gavin, Vanessa Marr and Ottilie Hainsworth.