DrCarol Ballantine

I am interested in the application of intersectional feminist thinking to the major challenges of the twenty-first century: these include social polarisation; structural violence; large scale migration and the backlash against this. I am especially interested in the uses and misuses of narrative to contain, explain and understand these phenomena. In my research practice, I use storytelling as a way of collecting, understanding and representing data. More recently, I have developed tools using visual art and art-based facilitation for research with groups of people gathered across difference related to gender, sexuality and abortion (Beyond Opposition research).