Issue 2: TRANSFORM News Magazine

From the TRANSFORM Team

Welcome to 2025 and the second issue of the TRANSFORM News Magazine

This is an exciting ‘getting started’ time in the project, and we are delighted to include in this issue some of the highlights of TRANSFORM, including the news from NGO partners, the centres attached to Transform and of course the wonderful involvement of new researchers. You can also learn more about TRANSFORM’s Learning Series, the nine public and internal-toTransform sessions from Series One, and the upcoming events for Series Two beginning in January 2025. We are particularly excited to showcase the first ‘cross project’ initiative of TRANSFORM involving more than 250 young people across sites in India, Mexico, Mali, Malawi, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa and Tanzania, all picturing through photography what gender looks like in their own communities. You can be ready to see the fruits of this work post the first Transform Transnational Summit taking place in February 2025 in the form of a travelling exhibition, a digitally curated exhibition, and a special issue of the TRANSFORM News Magazine focused entirely on the Summit.

All this and lots more to come! If you are new to the Transform community and this transnational project involving field sites in Africa (Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa), Latin America (Argentina, Mexico), and South Asia (India), alongside communities of youth in Mali, Malawi, Tanzania and Indigenous youth (Eskasoni, Canada), we invite you to visit the Transform website.

From the TRANSFORM Co-directors: Claudia Mitchell, (McGill University), Relebohile Moletsane (University of KwaZulu-Natal), Shannon Walsh (University of British Columbia), and Lisa Starr (University of Lethbridge).

A special thanks to the TRANSFORM research and administration team: Jen Thompson, Angela MacDonald, Leann Brown and Emilia Vera Romero.

Youth Spotlight

Photovoice in action! Youth from TRANSFORM sites take photos about gender in their community as part of Local Youth Gatherings

In the months leading up to the TRANSFORM Transnational Summit taking place in Durban in February, many of the TRANSFORM field sites have organized Local Youth Gatherings to ask young people about the gender issues in their community These gatherings – some in person, some virtual, and often involving young people as co-leaders and co-facilitators – will have involved more than 250 young people across Mexico, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, South Africa, Malawi, Mali, Tanzania, India, and Canada.

As the News Magazine goes to press, photos taken by young people continue to roll in for their inclusion in a Transnational Photo Exhibition. This exhibition will be co-developed with young people at the Summit and become a ‘travelling exhibition’ for sharing back with communities as well as digitally. In the meantime, we wanted to share some highlights from the facilitators and site teams in the field about the meaning of the photovoice activities.

From the team in Jos, Nigeria: “It was a transformative experience for many youths who were led to see the problems in their communities in a new light and, most especially, to think about them, leading to possible solutions. The youths were inspired to begin thinking more about gender issues in their community.”

In Sierra Leone, the youth identified as a key issue: “the importance of information sharing on youth related issues especially by young people who have the opportunity to learn relevant issues affecting young people.”

The team in Bauchi, Nigeria noted: “Some interesting and sometimes contradictory themes emerged. Some younger boys said their parents love and care for their daughters more than their sons. Fathers give gifts to the girls and overlook the needs of boys. Some younger girls said that they are sent out street hawking while their parents send their brothers to school. In contrast, older boys said they are sent to work on the farm while their sisters attend school.”

The textiles community at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México reflected on gender transformation in textiles work: “Embroidery not only relates the experiences of those who work with it but is also a means to promote change.”

From the team in Wentworth: “Creative initiatives like this Photovoice workshop and grassroots efforts challenge systemic neglect and strive to build a more inclusive society. While Wentworth is a microcosm of South Africa’s struggles with inequality, it is also a place where hope and hardship coexist.”

Special thanks to the many site leads and co-facilitators and youth facilitators who made this happen, including Anne Cockcroft, Umaira Ansari, Yagana Gidado, Hadiza Mudi, Nanre Nafziger, Ganiyu Ibikunle, Lengdung Tungchamma, Blessing Moses, Khalid Hassan, Geetanjali Gill, Lamin Sesay, Ruby Boston-Griffiths, Sarah Ngaiwa, Joan Summers, Katie Bryant, Agatha Njunga, Ellah Tambalaweko, Relebohile Moletsane, Lisa Wiebesiek, Nkonzo Mkhize, Samkelisiwe Luthuli, Brian Sibeko-Ngidi, Ashwin Desai, Marian Murray, Fatoumata Keita, Rukmini Panda, Monica Shank-Lauwo, Leann Brown, Linda Liebenberg, Graciela Martinez-Zalce, Tsanda Neito, and many more!!

In Bauchi State, Nigeria, youth from two rural Toro communities took photographs in small groups as part of a 2-day gathering, organized by the Bauchi team from the Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (ASRH) project “Mantombazana”!

Gender Transformative Education Experience

On July 18, 2024, the participants of a Girl-Club based in the township of Mdantsane in East London, South Africa- were invited to join the adolescent girls’ edition of the Feminist Schools learning program.

This Girl-Club is one of fourteen clubs founded and facilitated by young champion teachers across a variety of South African schools. Supported by the Centre for Visual Methodologies for Social Change at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, the Girl-Clubs are aimed at creating a safe space for girls to talk about issues that are important to them, using diverse Participatory Visual Methodologies to foster the girls’ engagement with issues of girlhood, gender-based violence, inequity, relationships and challenges that they face in their schools, homes and communities. The clubs nurture and empower the girls' leadership and strengthen their individual capacities for personal and collective advocacy

“Ululutho Nomtayi, Bave Thomas, Shine Gaba, Lihle Xhonti and Aqhamangaye, Madikane were selected to represent our Girl-Club, and they did an outstanding job of it!” – Bongiwe MaomeDikana (Girl-Club champion Teacher).

Spearheaded by UNGEI and Gender at Work, the primary objective of the Feminist Schools Learning Program is to enhance girls’ leadership skills through the experimental learning focused on gender justice and education. The program spanned six weeks and featured a series of diverse virtual sessions, where the girls from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries engaged in discussions on gender and related issues. The program culminated in the annual Feminist Network for Gender Transformative Education convening in Johannesburg, South Africa from October 15 to 17, 2024. It was at this international gathering that the Girl-Club delivered a powerful presentation through Indigenous song, praise poetry (umbongo), and dance. The meeting offered valuable insight into their perspective on issues affecting them as young black adolescent girl activists living in the townships of South Africa. “We are survivors, and we are also fighters. We heal through art” – Bave Thomas.

Partner News

The TRANSFORM partnership involves 10 partner organizations, including national and international NGOs (Agenda, CODE, Equitas, Oxfam Canada, Plan Canada, Right to Play, Uthingo Network), policy groups (Women and Gender Equality Canada, UNESCO International Institute for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean) and publishers (Berghahn Press).

Right To Play Journey with Participatory and Playful Approaches

Since 2021, Right To Play has been enhancing its impact through knowledge co-creation and program adaptation, involving youth as researchers and advocates. This approach has empowered youth participants and allowed the organization to better understand complex issues. Right To Play has empowered youth to take agency in addressing their challenges, giving them a platform to voice concerns and actively engage in solutions, strengthening their sense of ownership.

With support from the Global Women Institute (2021-2023) and New Frontiers in Research (2022-2024), youth researchers explored gender roles through drawing in Lebanon and Uganda, and documented gender norms affecting access to sports in Senegal and education in Mali. They also used drawing to better understand and explain the educational needs of children impacted by conflict in Mali. Additionally, participatory methods were incorporated into the evaluations of the RECAF Jeu project in Senegal and My Education My Future project in Burundi. These approaches amplified the voices of children living with vulnerabilities, ensuring their involvement in ways that are both inclusive and impactful. Drawing and mapping with girls allowed for discussions on gender norms, while boys participated in ‘vignette’ discussions on positive masculinity and protection from gender-based violence. Youth participants gained critical skills for their education, employability, and personal growth.

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Looking ahead, Right To Play plans to launch the Psychosocial First Aid course to support teams in handling sensitive disclosures. The organization will continue expanding participatory approaches and building skills across teams, facilitators, and coaches, fully embracing the opportunities presented by the TRANSFORM initiative.

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A recurrent theme was the massacre experienced by project participants. A school in the project location was used as shelter by families displaced in the attack.

Equitas flagship International Human Rights Training Program Returns Fall 2025

Over the past 40 years, Equitas International Centre for Human Rights Education has been at the forefront of empowering human rights educators and defenders through their flagship program- International Human Rights Training Program (IHRTP). After a one-year hiatus, the IHRTP is back in full force this Fall 2025! The overall goal of the program is to contribute to universal respect of human rights through strengthening the capacity of a global pool of human rights educators and defenders, by enabling them to:

Use internationally recognized human rights standards, principles and values

Integrate human rights, participatory and gender transformative approaches into their work

Identify human rights educational and advocacy tools and techniques that can increase the impact of their work

Develop critical thinking and analysis of the local and global context of human rights

Evaluate the results of their human rights education and advocacy work

Integrate global south, local and non- dominant perspectives in human rights educational and advocacy work

Create opportunities for networking to advance human rights and gender equality

Put into practice their learning for a better impact within their community

For more details on how to apply to participate in this 2-weeks program, visit International Human Rights Training Program | Equitas

Centres, Labs, Studios & Institutes

The TRANSFORM Partnership features a unique network of university-based hubs focused on participatory visual and arts-based methodologies, community engagement, and social change.

Now available on the website are descriptions of the Centres, Labs, Studios and Institutes, what they have been up to, and more. Check it out here!

The Visual Methods Studio (VMS) Workshops, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada.

As an intrinsically porous field, visual studies, and the various methodologies taken up by it, are powerful mechanisms for asking sociological, anthropological, and artistic questions toward visualizing the human experience/condition.

2024 saw a series of well-received visual methods workshops robustly sustaining our claims that these approaches within research needed more attention and support. After years of dissatisfaction over scarcity of training and discussion for the wider community (university and beyond), we engaged through the VMS and TRANSFORM to bring some exciting opportunities to graduate students, scholars, and people from the wider community.

These free and open workshops were well attended and inspired us to prepare a winter season with more opportunities to share and learn together

In September our first invited workshop presented a form-finding technique used by architect and designer Dr. Kazmy Chi Muñoz, Universidad de Monterrey called: Design pedagogy: Form-finding strategies using Operative verbs and experimentation with controlled phenomena, using language games to spark creativity. October found us offering Exploring Visual Methods Across the Disciplines: An Introductory Workshop Date with Dr. Laura Krystal Porterfield from the Department of Urban Education at Rutgers University, and the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice. Dr. Porterfield used interactive activities in between group discussions to introduce participants to a variety of visual methods suitable for inter-and cross-disciplinary study. In November we organized a session on Drawing and Ethnography facilitated by Irmak Taner and Pelin Karaaslan. This engaging workshop had participants explore intersections between drawing and ethnographic research, examining how the act of visual representation can deepen our understanding of observation, detail, and meaning making in research practice.

The success of these sessions has us planning an exciting winter semester, where we hope to offer events on ethics, criticality and reflexivity in participatory visual methods (in February, 2025) and on Working with the aesthetic in visual research (in March, 2025).

The Research for Social Change Lab: Mobilizing Knowledge and

Community for Justice and Equity in Nogojiwanong/Peterborough

The Research for Social Change Lab is a community-engaged research collective in pursuit of justice and equity in Nogojiwanong/Peterborough, Canada. With community partners, we design and execute research projects that generate actionable knowledge and creative solutions to problems such as homelessness, social exclusion and poverty

By prioritizing community interests and striving to learn from and be accountable to lived expertise, we aim to politicize knowledge production and mobilize university resources for social change.

Our work is explicitly values-based: we prioritize building community, cultivating reciprocal relations with collaborators, doing research that is purposeful and useful, being flexible and dexterous in our research designs, and trying to make all this work fun.

In order to reach our aims and actualize our values, we do a lot of participatory research, we regularly organize and host community symposia and open learning events, and we make and share a lot of zines — small booklets that use images and words to communicate research findings. We also write articles and reports and briefs — but even here, we try to push the boundaries on what is expected in these more traditional forms of academic communication (e.g., by including images and poetry).

The Research for Social Change Lab was founded in 2021 by Professor Naomi Nichols. It is based at Trent University in Nogojiwanong/Peterborough, on the traditional territory of the Michi Saagiig First Nations. Visit our website and learn more about us: https://www.socialchangelab.ca/ Research for Social Change Lab cohosts a Housing and Homelessness Symposium with the Peterborough

Celebrating Global Creativity: Highlights from the 13th MINA Smartphone Film Festival

The MINA Smartphone Film Festival took place at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) in November 2024. Associate Professor Max Schleser, a TRANSFORM co-investigator and researcher at the Centre for Transformative Media Technologies, curated the Mobile Innovation Screening. This event aimed to showcase international advancements and trends in cellphilm filmmaking.

The 13th edition of MINA, (Mobile Innovation Network & Association), featured submissions from every continent, presenting cellphilms from Argentina, Australia, Canada, France, Israel, New Zealand/Aotearoa, Portugal, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In addition to the cinema screening, MINA offered an online screening on its dedicated MINAVault platform: https://www.sightvault.xyz/collection/minavault2024

The cinema screening also included the SF3 Melbourne screening, making this a truly Australian smartphone film festival. One of the program highlights was Career Fight, produced in collaboration with Bus Stop Films, a pioneering non-profit organization that uses filmmaking to elevate the profile of people living with disabilities. Directed by SF3’s Angela Blake, this cellphilm stars Special Olympics gold medallist Chris Bunton and Chloé Hayden (Heartbreak High). The collaboration between MINA and SF3 also resulted in a "best of" screening, presented in the Sightlines Journal: Issue 5 https://www.aspera.org.au/issue-5 or via Vimeo https://vimeo.com/827159878

As a festival dedicated to capturing innovations in screen storytelling and reflecting contemporary culture, MINA included AI in the Innovation category Additionally, MINA presented categories for Vertical Smartphone Film, #Ecosmartphone Film, and New Voices. The New Voices category continues to push boundaries by featuring first-time and emerging smartphone filmmakers. This year, it prominently showcased works from Swinburne University of Technology (Australia) and the Sino-German Faculty of Branding at Zhejiang Wanli University (China).

The 14th edition of the MINA Smartphone Film Festival will take place on October 24, 2025, at ACMI in Melbourne, Australia. Submit your cellphilms with the early bird deadline

https://filmfreeway.com/mina or any TRANSFORM projects can ask Max@mina.pro for a submission fee waiver. We are looking forward to celebrating your cellphilms on the big screen.

For more information, visit: www: https://mina.pro/ Insta: https://www.instagram.com/mobileinnovationnetwork/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/MobileInnovationNetwork/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@minasmartphonefilmfest X: https://x.com/MINAmobile #MINA2024 Screening Program: https://mina.pro/wp-content/uploads/MINA-2024-e.pdf Centre for Transformative Media Technologies: https://transformativemedia.swinburne.edu.au/

New Researchers in Action

Participatory Visual Methods for Gender

Transformation: Addressing SRHR Needs Among

Rural Adolescent Girls in South Africa

Samkelisiwe Luthuli is a researcher and PhD candidate at the Centre for Visual Methodologies for Social Change (CVMSC) at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. In the CVMSC, Luthuli has worked collaboratively on various research projects using participatory visual methods (PVM) to understand and address sexual and reproductive health & rights (SRHR) issues in rural communities. An example of a current project that she is working on is the Girls’ Club research project, funded by the Ford Foundation.

This project involves 14 champion teachers and their female learners from different rural South African schools who have established Girl’s Club in their schools. In this project, girls and teachers use PVM to enable discussions and co-production of knowledge about SRHR and gender inequality.

What has emerged from the Girl’s Club project is the need for safe spaces for girls to critically engage with and address gender inequality to aid gender transformation in their communities. Similarly, Luthuli’s PhD research uses PVM to understand adolescent girls’ SRHR needs in a rural community. The study argues that addressing the unmet needs for SRHR education and services among rural adolescent girls could prevent negative SRH consequences and their impacts on

educational and social outcomes. Sam is part of the Transform team from South Africa. The SA site is currently preparing for the first-in-person TRANSFORM International Youth Summit, 13-15 February 2025 in Durban.

A Gender and International Development: Historical Perspectives

Olivia Casey is a PhD Candidate in Education at the Rutgers Graduate School of Education, one of TRANSFORM’S university partners.

She is interested in the history of gender and international development, with a particular focus on how girls’ education interventions within the development sector have intersected with questions of race, reproduction, and climate crises. Her current research explores how the quantitative social science disciplines of demography and economics were differently leveraged to advance girls’ education initiatives in the late twentieth century This project illuminates how, contrary to existing narratives, social scientists in this period lacked consensus on how girls’ education shaped economic and reproductive futures.

Contrasting demography and economics in the late twentieth century disrupts simplistic narratives of scientific consensus and instead illuminates the ways in which quantitative knowledge production is imbued with power relations.

Moreover, this research considers the ways in which quantitative social science has played a longstanding role in producing racialized fears of population growth. Prior to Rutgers, Olivia worked at an international development NGO focused on girls’ education, Room to Read. She holds a M.A. in International and Multicultural Education from the University of San Francisco, a B.A. in Rhetoric from the University of California Berkeley, and a Graduate Certificate in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Rutgers University.

Exploring Resistance in Practice

Meet Emilia Vera Romero, a Chilean master ’s student at McGill University, and responsible for communications at the Participatory Cultures Lab.

Her thesis, Resistance in Practice by Queer Chilean Educators, examines how educators’ sexual identities shape their pedagogical strategies, with a focus on critical pedagogy and social justice in Chilean public and lowincome schools.

During her recent fieldwork in Chile, Emilia guest lectured at the University of Alberto Hurtado and the University of Santiago de

Chile (USACH), engaging pre-service teachers in discussions on the intersections of identity and education.

Youth Perspectives & Sustainable Development

Shiqing Gong (pronounced /shih-ch’ing/) is a PhD student in the Department of Integrated Studies at McGill University. Her research focuses on understanding the perspectives of youth—particularly those from rural or marginalized communities—on sustainable development. She examines intersectional factors, such as gender and socioeconomic status, that influence youth participation, while exploring innovative educational approaches to empower and mobilize youth-led actions.

Before joining McGill, Shiqing worked as aproject coordinator at the UNESCO International Research and Training Centre for Rural Education (INRULED) and PEER China. In these roles, she led initiatives to promote youth engagement in advancing rural education and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). She facilitated youth seminars and workshops to amplify young people’s voices and actions and organized capacity-building programs tailored to empower youth as changemakers.

In the TRANSFORM project, Shiqing’s work focuses on gender and climate justice. She also works with the Global Dialogue Node, coordinating with partner organizations to foster cross-institutional partnerships and facilitate knowledge exchange.

LEARNING SERIES SEASON 1

From September to December 2024, the TRANSFORM Learning Series hosted nine events, including webinars, book launches, in-person fireside chats, and photovoice sessions. The series attracted close to participants and featured an impressive lineup of more than 56 speakers from around the world including South Africa, Canada, Mexico, Australia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Mali, India, Botswana, Sweden, the UK, and the US.

Did you miss a session? No problem! You can watch all the recordings on the PCL’s YouTube channel

BOOKS!

Girls Taking Action: Activism Networks By, For, and With Girls and Young Women

Girls Taking Action, edited by TRANSFORM coinvestigator Catherine Vanner examines the global repression of girls' and women's rights while highlighting the diverse ways in which girls and young women assert their agency in the face of inequity and discrimination.

The book, published as part of Berghahn’s Transnational Girlhood series, emphasizes the power of community and collaboration in building activism networks, fostering a more interconnected and global understanding of girlhood.

Girls Taking Action includes chapters by Jessica Taft, Lisa Wiebesiek, Nkonzo Mkhize, and Natasha Harris-Harb, all members of the TRANSFORM team, and the many other contributors, deepening conversations about gender justice and activism. The contributors bring diverse, intersectional viewpoints, demonstrating the breadth and impact of girl-led movements across different contexts.

Mirrored Lives of Change: From Girls Leading Change to Champion Teachers

Naydene de Lange, TRANSFORM Collaborator

Mirrored Lives of Change is the work of an amazing group of young women with whom we have been working for over a decade. Our story with fourteen young women began in 2013, when we recruited them into Networks for Change and Well-Being: Girl-Led “From the Ground up” Policy Making to Address Sexual Violence in Canada and South Africa. They were first year teacher education students from rural Eastern Cape, South Africa. Their books emerged organically and tell their stories at different times of their lives and offer insight into how they have transformed as time went by Building on their previous publications, Fourteen Times a Woman: Indigenous Stories from the Heart (2016), “Hamba Thobekile”: Rewriting the Narrative of Young Indigenous African Women in Times of Gendered Violence (2018), and Dear Nosizwe: Conversations About Gender Inclusive Teaching in Schools (2019), Girls Leading Change is their fourth publication.

In the first book Fourteen Times a Woman: Indigenous Stories from the Heart (Girls Leading Change, 2016), the authors reflected on growing up as young African girls in rural areas. As the work in Networks for Change continued, we began seeing a change in their thinking, for example, about the need for a shift away from being a submissive African girl and woman. In a second book, “Hamba Thobekile”: Rewriting the Narrative of Young Indigenous African Women in Times of Gendered Violence (Girls Leading Change, 2018) most of the young women were teaching in schools and felt that they wanted to share their new learning and insights about teaching gender with other teachers. They explore this further in a third book, Dear Nosizwe: Conversations About Gender Inclusive Teaching in Schools (Girls Leading Change, 2019). Ten years past and fourth book begged to be written. In this new book, Mirrored Lives of Change: From Girls Leading Change to Champion Teachers, the authors reflect on how far they had come, and what had changed for them as African women. Ten of the women took time to present their poignant stories.

Check out Mirrored Lives of Change on the PCL website and on issuu

The guide is designed by Indigenous graphic designer Gabrielle Giroux from Encore Graphics.

Drawing on 10 years of youth-led, community-based research, The Trail is a comprehensive resource of promising practices for engaging with young Indigenous peoples to address sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) in their communities through arts-based methods.

You can now have full access to the toolkit on the PCL Website

Creating Spaces to Take Action

In communities where violence is normalized, the first step toward transforming mindsets, attitudes, and behaviors is recognizing it as a social issue. Oxfam’s Creating Spaces To Take Action on Violence Against Women and Girls aimed to reduce violence against women and girls (VAWG), including the prevalence of child, early and forced marriage (CEFM) in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, and the Philippines. The project was implemented by over 25 local partner organizations, with support from Oxfam country offices and Oxfam Canada.

In Ending Violence Against Women and Girls Theory of Change, Oxfam and partners adopted a multi-pronged, multi-stakeholder approach at the individual, household, community, and institutional levels to drive positive shifts towards gender transformation. A key strategy was engaging and educating adolescents and youth, encouraging the adoption of positive, genderequitable attitudes and behaviours at an early age,

when social norms are first internalized.

Youth-led Girl Defender ’s Alliance (2019). The alliance was created to advocate for the passing of the Girls Not Brides bill in Philippines to outlaw child marriage.

By fostering youth awareness, participation, and leadership, young people became a powerful force for change, successfully delaying marriages for countless adolescent girls and boys and influencing policy and legislative reforms. This learning brief highlights key insights from the project on effectively engaging youth to bolster their leadership in advocating for women’s and girls’ rights, as well as showcasing concrete, youth-led outcomes across the Creating Spaces countries.

In partnership with McGill University and with financial support from IDRC, The Creating Spaces team trained young people in India as co-research leads using participatory visual methodologies (PVM) - PhotoVoice, Cellphilm, Participatory reflective workshops, and the Social Norms Diagnostic Tool. Using these methods, youth researchers explored the barriers that prevent youth from understanding their rights and accessing sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and gender-based violence (GBV) services, and generated strategies to influence the discriminatory attitudes, beliefs, and practices of community members, leaders, policymakers and service providers. They even took the lead to link women to services during COVID-19. For publications, resources, and a virtual tour highlighting this transformative experience, click here

Coming Soon

TRANSFORM Learning Series Season 2

We are excited to announce a new lineup of webinars, book launches, and panel discussions for the January–April 2025 season. Join youth researchers, activists, and academics for captivating discussions on a diverse range of topics and issues. Note: Times and date might need to be adjusted, so keep an eye out on our social media and our website!

Leading Change Webinar

Friday, January 31 2025 9 to 10:30 EST

Register on Zoom

“I am a changed person”: Measuring the transformative impact of Participatory

Visual Methodologies Webinar

Wednesday, February 26, 2025 10 am to 12 pm EST

This webinar will be hosted by the University of Windsor in collaboration with the United Nations Girls’ Education Initiative, Transform Education, Plan International, and TRANSFORM. Youth activists from the Leading Change research project will present research on youth-led feminist activism for gender transformative education.

Join Anne Cockcroft and Neil Andersson of PRAM at McGill and a wonderful panel to learn more about studying the impact of cellphilms and other participatory methodologies in work with youth in community based research.

Book Celebration:

Girls Taking Action: Activism networks by, for and with girls and young women, and Girls in Global Development — Figurations of Gendered Power Webinar

Monday, March 17, 2025

11 am – 1 pm EST

Registration coming soon.

Youth Summit Panel

Join Catherine Vanner and Heather Switzer, Emily Bent and Karishma Desai for a celebration of their new edited publications, Girls Taking Action and Girls in Global Development.

Join this panel of youth researchers who participated in the Transnational Summit. Discover insights into the workshops, discussions, and brainstorming sessions they engaged in during the event.

Stay tuned! Visit our website and social media channels for the event date and registration link!

TRANSFORM Partners