Forced migrant women rising to tackle violence against women and girls in their community in Durban, South Africa
Forced migrant women rising to tackle violence against women and girls in their community in Durban, South Africa
Gibbs is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Exeter. I am broadly interested in understanding how structural and social factors become embedded and internalized in individuals’ identities and practices and the impacts of this on their health, and how people individually or through structured interventions, can work to resist and transform their situations.
My early work has focused substantially on men and masculinities, as well as economic interventions, and the processes of change in interventions. Increasingly my work is exploring the benefits and challenges of the co-production of knowledge and interventions, and the centrality of emotions in understanding identities and health practices.
Much of my research is focused on South Africa, particularly young people living in marginalised settings (primarily urban informal settlements), though I have worked on projects in Afghanistan and Bangladesh.
My work specifically focuses on those who experience social, economic and/or political marginalisation.
