1st Edition

The Routledge International Handbook of Gender-Based Violence Research

Edited By Carolina Borda-Niño-Wildman Copyright 2026
428 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

428 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This essential handbook provides researchers, educators and policymakers with the tools and critical reflections needed to navigate the complexities of GBV research, from conceptualisation and fieldwork to dissemination and impact. Carefully curated essays from leading scholars and practitioners in the field examine the interconnected epistemological, methodological, and ethical dimensions of... Read more

Introduction. Gender-Based-Violence Research: An overview
Carolina Borda-Niño-Wildman

PART I: Project formulation

1. Neurotypical-white women do not open doors: a new approach to methodology and the violence among women in academia
Mayne Souza Benedetto
Rita Serra

2. Designing research into non-typical gender-based domestic violence
Colette Harris

3. Breaking the silence, building a narrative: exploring sexual harassment from a feminist collaborative perspective
Sílvia Bofill-Poch

4. To Be … Feminist … or Not to Be; the theoretical challenges of researching gender-based violence from a feminist perspective
Katy Proctor

5. Three challenges for the analysis of gender-based violence in digital spaces
Virginia Villamediana
Liudmila Morales

PART II: Ethics

6. Feminist ethics and methods in gender-based violence research: connecting theory and practice
Jo Roberts

7. Classroom as the field: Reflections and challenges on relational ethics while engaging with students as teachers and mentors
Sarmistha Das
Pamidi Hagjer

8. Beyond a Naive Enquiry into Intimate Partner Femicide: Challenges, Dilemmas, and Opportunities in the Study of Perpetrators
Martín Hernán Di Marco
James Rowlands

9. When Information Becomes Performance: Ethical Considerations for Using Media in GBV Research
Cristina Sobrino-Garcés

10. Meso-Ethical Considerations in conducting Intimate Partner Violence Research
Gene Lim
Shane Worrell
Adam Bourne

PART III: Methodologies

Section 1: Qualitative Designs

11. Methodological Approaches and Ethical Challenges in Researching Online Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse
Mengyao Lu
Anna Krzeczkowska
Ashleigh McFeeters
Sabina Savadova

12. The importance of in-depth interviews with practitioners in researching gender-based violence
Jana Kujundžić

13. Problematisation as method: Deliberating the ‘reasonable person/woman’ standard in anti-sexual harassment policies
Anukriti Dixit

Section 2: Quantitative Designs

14. Intimate partner violence. Advances and methodological and analytical challenges of the National Demographic and Health Surveys
Rocío Murad
Sandra Marcela Sánchez

15. Contributions of surveys to the study of gender-based violence in religious settings
Miriam Pepper
Tracy McEwan
Kathleen McPhillips
Ruth Powell

Section 3: Arts-based Designs

16. ‘he hits me and it’s hard’ …. Using creative methods in schools to research gender-based violence
Janette Porter
Kay Standing

17. The Sounds of Violence: Using music elicitation to enquire about childhood experiences of domestic violence and abuse
Jade Levell

18. Dancing Through Learning: Butoh and Teaching Research on Gender-Based Violence
Carolina Borda-Niño-Wildman

PART IV: Fieldwork and Writing-Up

19. Researching Violence against Women in São Paulo, Brazil: Gendered Fear of Violence and Crime as a Methodological Constraint
Kim Beecheno

20. ‘GBV is not one thing:’ Reflections from long term fieldwork engagements in Kenya on how researchers’ and participants’ concepts of violence change
Gemma Aellah
Anne Gatuguta
J. Omondi
V. Anyango Otieno
Johnson Ondiek.

21. Addressing the Overlap of Multiple Forms of Victimisation: The Case of Transphobic Hate Crime as a Form of Gender-Based Violence
Ben Colliver

22. An Interdisciplinary Approach to Reflexivity: The application of social theory to explore dynamics of concealment and complicity in health research
Clare McFeely
Colin Atkinson

Biography

Carolina Borda-Niño-Wildman is Head of Research, Development, and Innovation at the National Health Service for Scotland's Ayrshire & Arran region. She is a medical anthropologist, political scientist, and Butoh dancer, dedicated to studying the political economy of violence(s), the intersection of gender, class and ethnicity, and identity politics in Latin America and Europe.

‘Sure to challenge readers, reveal unexamined assumptions, expand thinking, offer inspiration and incite new questions. An indispensable companion for improving every stage of the research process.’

Mónica A. Maher, Visiting Professor at the Department of Sociology and Gender Studies, Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences, FLACSO Ecuador

 

‘A key introduction to understanding gender-based violence for those that need it, and a series of challenges to experienced researcher-activists, in order to consider further their reflective practice.’

Sally R Munt, Emeritus Professor, Sussex University, UK and Chief Editor of Feminist Encounters

 

‘A compelling book…that brings to the fore the key questions to address in conducting this research, ensuring that the complexities of gender and intersectionality are addressed. An absolute must read for those working in this field.’

Shelley Lees, Professor of Anthropology of Public Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK