Past Events
Gender and Gender Based Violence in Azerbaijan: Qualitative Approach in Research CRRC-UNFPA joint seminar series on the occasion of 16 Days of Activism against Gender Based Violence concluded on December 4, 2008 with a presentation on Gender and Gender Based Violence in Azerbaijan: Qualitative Approach in Research delivered by Dr. Farideh Heyat, PhD in Social Anthropology from School of Oriental and African Studies, London University.
The presenter talked about qualitative approach in general and with focus on gender and gender based violence research. She shared her experience of doing gender research with a focus Azerbaijan and Central Asian countries. Research methods explained by Dr. Heyat were participant observation, semi-structured, open-ended interviews, life history interviews and textual analysis. She also talked about the importance of constructing categories and concepts from observations and interviews and researching the relationship between those categories and concepts.
The presentation generated great interest among visitors was followed by an intensive questions-answers session on the dynamics of gender relations and attitude to gender-based violence in Azerbaijan, as well as cross-cultural comparison of the attitudes to domestic violence.
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