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040			_aAFVC
100			_aSchulz, Philipp _910874
245			_aSelf-care for gender-based violence researchers – Beyond bubble baths and chocolate pralines _cPhilipp Schulz, Anne-Kathrin Kreft, Heleen Touquet and Sarah Martin
260			_bSage, _c2022
500			_aQualitative Research, 2022, First published 24 April 2022
520			_aResearching sensitive topics often carries immediate effects on researchers, yet discussions about the emotional and psychological impacts of conducting this type of research remain rare. In recent years, debates begun to emerge about the emotional and psychological toll that qualitative field-based research on violence in general, and on gender-based violence (GBV) in particular, can have on those conducting this research. Most of the existing support and self-care strategies in response to these effects, however, are primarily tailored towards practitioners, but not specifically for researchers, who often face unique challenges and experiences. At the same time, most existing self-care guidelines in the fields of violence research typically centre around neo-liberalized strategies, which fail to take into account the structural dimensions of researchers’ challenges and the long-term nature of vicarious traumatization. In this article, we move beyond such approaches and instead adopt relational and collaborative ways of taking care of ourselves and each other. Drawing on our experiences of researching GBV, we propose that strategies of coping with the emotional and psychological toll of GBV research require relationships and collaborations. This collaborative and communal approach becomes particularly acute within the absence of support and care at the structural and institutional level, within universities and organizations. The collaborative and relational approaches that we propose in this article specifically include forms of peer-support and fostering ‘caring communities’, in the form of groups, collectives or networks. (Authors' abstract). Record #7624
650			_aQUALITATIVE RESEARCH _9485
650			_aRESEARCH ETHICS _9498
650			_aSELF-HELP _910581
650		0	_aVIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN _93088
651			_aINTERNATIONAL _93624
651			_aEUROPE _93372
700			_aKreft, Anna-Kathrin _910875
700			_aTouquet, Heleen _910876
700			_aMartin, Sarah _96101
773	0		_tQualitative Research, 2022, First published 24 April 2022
830			_aQualitative Research _99259
856			_uhttps://doi.org/10.1177%2F14687941221087868 _zDOI: 10.1177%2F14687941221087868 (Open access)
942			_2ddc _cARTICLE _hpānui-april-2022