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This work was supported by the Agency for Management of University and Research Grants of the Catalunya Generality under the Grants for innovation projects to improve the quality of teaching on gender violence [2020 INDOV 00003]; the Spanish Ministry of Science, Research and University and the European Union under the Programa Estatal de Investigacion I+D+I Orientada a los Retos de la Sociedad 2018 [RTI2018-093627-B-I00]; the Secretaria d'Universitats i Recerca del Departament d'Empresa i Coneixement at the Generalitat de Catalunya, the European Union (EU) and the European Social Fund (ESF) under Joan Oro grant to hire research staff in training [RTI2018- 093627-B-I0].

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January 7, 2025
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A Feminist Activist Research to mainstream awareness of gender-related violence in universities through photovoice

Publicated to:Educational Action Research. - 2024-03-23 (), DOI: 10.1080/09650792.2024.2331199

Authors: Biglia, Barbara; Cubero, Aloe; Araiza, Alejandra

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Univ Rovira i Virgili, Pedag Dept, Tarragona, Spain - Author

Abstract

Sexual and gender-related violences (SeGReV) is more normalised in the university community than we might expect, even though there have been important changes in HEI politics and policies in this sense. Therefore, sensitisation is essential. In this paper, we present multidisciplinary international research that, implicating around 40 university teachers and 300 students, aimed to approach this necessity through the design and evaluation of an innovative pedagogical protocol. Our text serves two purposes: to reflect on the effectiveness of photovoice to increase the student's awareness of SeGReV; and to introduce and exemplify the specificity of Feminist Activist Research (FAR), a methodological approach that rises from the intersection of Action Research, Activist Research and Feminist epistemology. We will show how the applied approach of our project, the production of training materials, and other disseminative actions, proved to be a valuable practice for increasing the SeGReV awareness of university students. In this sense, becomes clear that photovoice can be an important ally, as it is an extremely useful technique both on a pedagogical level and as a research instrument. Last but not least, we exemplify the adequacy and peculiarity of FAR as a research approach. [GRAPHICS] .

Keywords

ClassrooFeminist activist researcFeminist activist researchFeminist pedagogyGender mainstreamingParticipatory researchPhotovoiceSexual and gender-related violencesTeaching innovation

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Educational Action Research due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency Scopus (SJR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2024 there are still no calculated indicators, but in 2023, it was in position , thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Education.

Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-07-04:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 7.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 7 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 1.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 1 (Altmetric).

Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (Biglia, Barbara) and Last Author (Araiza Díaz, Alejandra).

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been Biglia, Barbara.