Tag: learning

  • Exciting News! Discover our French Comic!

    Our comic has been translated into French by Voix de Femmes! The translation enables more people to read the comic and use it to educate themselves and others about forced marriage, to raise awareness, and develop practices of allyship. The comic is a starting point to discuss questions of consent; healthy relationships; the laws related…

  • An unholy union? Forced marriage and comics

    If you have been following our project, it will not surprise you to hear the words “forced marriage” and “comic” in the same sentence. Now you have the opportunity to see our forced marriage comic in action. How exciting! I am doing a public talk on 8 November, 5-7pm, in the Kolbox space at The…

  • New journal article!

    After our blog post for BERA, I am delighted to now share the longer article version with you. In the blog post, we reflect on comics as a teaching tool, using Emina’s story as an example. We argue that comics equip students with visual literacy skills in education, and (maybe more importantly) with critical thinking…

  • Get to Know the Team: Anja Koermer

    Who are you? Anja Koermer, Careers Manager for the Lydiate Learning Trust which includes Childwall Sports and Science Academy and Deyes High School. When did you first become interested in careers? I’ve always been fascinated by people and careers work gives me the opportunity to inspire people of all ages to discover possibilities, support them…

  • Let’s Talk About Human Rights and Forced Marriage! – How We Launched Our Comic

    It has taken about thirteen years to arrive at this moment. From the very first glimmer of inspiration in Hannah’s postgraduate mind, to December 2023, with a comic in our hands and a teaching pack online. This year alone has been a whirlwind of school visits, art revisions, and data collection, as well as feedback…

  • Prepare for take off! – Comic Launch

    It is on the internet, therefore it must be true.  Like little elves, we are busily preparing the launch of our comic and a separate but connected panel discussion on human rights education more broadly.   If you want to know more, click the link and scroll down until you find our event. We’d love to see…

  • So You Want to Make a Comic 2: How we did it 

    A couple of weeks ago, I came across Alan Moore’s Writing for Comics and Alex put together a handy list resources for comic making. I wish I could say I followed any of the advice of The Great comic writers when I wrote ours.   Instead, and as so often in academia, I made it up…

  • So You Want to Make Comics: A Resource List

    When we ran one of our workshops, a student approached us at the end of the session and expressed her interest in becoming a comic artist. She asked if there were any books on making comics that she could read to develop her work. Caught on the back foot, I recommended the trusty Understanding Comics…

  • Get To Know the Team: Catherine

    Who are you? Catherine Kirk, RSE Consultant, Nottingham City Council and independent consultant. I have supported the development of the Drawing on Forced Marriage materials and workshops. When did you first become interested in relationship and sex education? I began my career in theatre in education, and later managed a team delivering PSHE themed interactive…

  • My Happy Marriage: An Anime Case Study of Forced Marriage in Popular Culture

    Because I enjoy anime, Netflix’s algorithm has been hurling constant reminders at me about a new series: My Happy Marriage. I had dismissed it as of no interest to me, as I don’t tend to enjoy shōjo anime (given that I am a spooky-hearted thirty-something and the demographic of shōjo is bright teenage girls, this…