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About The Research

Project Becomings grew from doctoral research exploring how recovery from childhood trauma is understood, experienced and practised. The research questioned what can be overlooked when recovery is understood primarily through clinical, individualised or linear approaches, and explored what might become visible when lived, embodied, relational and creative forms of knowledge are taken seriously.

Grounded in feminist participatory approaches, the research was developed alongside survivor co-researchers, bringing together lived experience, creative practice and theory to explore different ways of knowing and thinking about recovery.

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Research Methodology 

Explore the feminist participatory and post-qualitative approach underpinning the research.

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Theoretical Foundations

Explore the ideas and theories that shaped how trauma, recovery, knowledge and experience were approached.

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My Position As A Researcher–Survivor

Explore how my lived experience of childhood trauma shaped my approach to research, participation and knowledge-making.

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Research Design

How Project Becomings was developed and carried out with survivor co-researchers.

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Creative Methods

Explore the creative and arts-based methods used throughout the research.

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Analysis And Knowing

Explore how analysis developed collaboratively and how different forms of knowledge came to matter within the research.

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What Emerged

Explore what became visible through the research about how trauma recovery is experienced, understood and continually made.

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Publications And Research Ouputs

Explore publications and creative research outputs arising from Project Becomings and my wider research.

Continue Exploring 

Discover how the research moved into public space, or explore resources connected with Project Becomings.

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