Project
Becomings
engage · learn · reimagine · grow
Reimagining recovery narratives following adversity
About Project Becomings
Project Becomings began with a what seemed like simple question: what might recovery from childhood trauma look like if we understood it differently?
Recovery following trauma is often framed through individualised and clinical models, with progress understood through symptoms, treatment and measurable outcomes. While these approaches can be important, they do not always capture the complexity of how recovery is experienced and lived. Recovery is also shaped through relationships, environments, bodies, objects, time, knowledge, power and the wider social worlds in which people live.
Project Becomings grew from a shared frustration with these limitations and a desire to create space for other ways of knowing and understanding recovery.
Where It Began
The project originated through Victoria Christodoulides’ doctoral research at the University of Bath. Drawing on her own lived experience of childhood trauma and recovery approaches alongside participatory research with adult survivors of childhood trauma, the research brought together feminist participatory action research, creative and arts-based methods, and new materialist thinking to explore how recovery might be understood beyond linear or individualised narratives.
Ten co-researchers participated through conversations, creative workshops and independent activities, producing knowledge through words, images, objects, spaces and shared experiences.
Rather than treating lived experience simply as data to be collected, the research explored what becomes possible when different forms of knowledge are brought into conversation.
From Research to Public Space
This work developed into the Project Becomings exhibition, where research moved beyond academic spaces and into the public domain.
Creative artefacts, research findings and participatory activities invited visitors not simply to learn about trauma recovery, but to engage with, question and contribute to how recovery might be understood.
Continuing Project Becomings
Project Becomings continues to develop from the original research.
This website brings together the doctoral research, the Project Becomings exhibition and resources developed through the project, creating a place where the work can continue to be explored beyond the original study.
As Project Becomings develops, this space can also provide a home for new research, resources and creative work connected with trauma, recovery and different ways of knowing.
What becomes possible when we allow ourselves to understand recovery differently?
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