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Why take a gendered approach to understanding violence and abuse?
This year, Tuesday 25th November was White Ribbon Day: a day that seeks to raise awareness of the global epidemic of violence against women and girls. White Ribbon Day is also the start of a sixteen-day period of campaigning and awareness raising about violence against women and girls, sometimes referred to as the 16 Days of Action. This year the campaign will end on Wednesday 10th December.
Revisioning the narrative
The theme for this years World Suicide Prevention Day is Changing the Narrative on Suicide. It is a theme that aligns well with the focus of our research on suicide in women nurses. We use the word ‘revisioning’ in the title of our Wellcome Trust funded study to describe our groundbreaking and transformative approach.