Projects

This research explores co-creative approaches with young people to develop sexuality education materials in Aruba, the Caribbean. It studys ways of knowing following an anticolonial approach to dominant forms of sexual reproductive health and rights (SRHR) knowledge within the international development sector. The research considers how creative dialogic spaces influence knowledge production, whilst reflecting on concepts of participation, power and affect.  

The project Radical Roots aims to co-create place-based co-design approaches to increase the real opportunities that citizens and marginalised groups have to imagine and pursue meaningful change for themselves and their local communities. Through this they can uncover and build on their own strengths and reconnect with their agency to reduce the impact of inequalities.

The research explores how young Chilean women perceived and experienced areas of abortion care, sexuality, and reproduction in the aftermath of the 2018 feminist protests and legalisation of abortion. Using an arts-based co-creative approach, young women participated as coresearchers, in the design, data collection and analysis of the research.

The ACCESS project was designed to generate sustainable, scalable, rights-based approaches to deliver comprehensive SRHR to all, ensuring no one is left behind, even in the most complex and challenging settings. It worked in Ethiopia, Myanmar, Nepal, Sierra Leone, and Uganda. Led by the International Planned Parenthood Federation, the OU worked alongside Frontline AIDS, Internews, the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and the Women’s Refugee Commission.