Skye Chirape - PhD proposal to the Hub.
Fri, 13 Mar
|Cape Town
Second year doctorate student Skye Chirape will present her PhD proposal to the Hub. We would love for you to join us. Her talk particularly focuses on applying feminist methodologies and explores the ethical issues considered for her research.
Time & Location
13 Mar 2020, 13:00 – 14:00
Cape Town, P. D. Hahn Building, Rondebosch, Cape Town, 7700, South Africa
About the event
Currently in the process of collecting data, Skye’s research deals with questions of borders and migration – specifically centring African LGBT persons seeking asylum in the UK. The study investigates broader issues around structural violence and the ongoing conversation on the politics of migration, security and borders of gender and sexuality.
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About the Speaker:
A doctorate researcher in the Psychology department at the University of Cape Town, Skye Chirape is also a visual-activist scholar and a Forensic Psychology scholar. Her activism has often centred migration, sexuality, trauma, structural violence and collective healing. In recent years Skye’s activism and scholarly work has placed focus on the conversation of trauma, decolonising work on trauma, healing, collective healing and holding space within black and persons of colour communities and movements.