HIV risk? It’s in the programming…

‘On the fast track to end AIDS’. That’s the UNAIDS slogan for today’s World AIDS Day; and beneath the inevitable soundbites lie some clear principles of approach, one of which is ‘deliver results that leave no one behind’ (UNAIDS, 2015). In Asia and the Pacific, as elsewhere in the world, the HIV epidemic continues to take its heaviest toll among communities and groups that are … Continue reading HIV risk? It’s in the programming…

New research method: developing metaphors

This post was originally published as a news item by the DLP. An original research method developed by IHSSC research fellow Dr Gillian Fletcher is included in a new handbook for social science researchers published this month. Author Dr Helen Kara uses Gillian’s work with metaphor elicitation as an example of creativity in research in Chapter 5 of Creative Research Methods in the Social Sciences: A … Continue reading New research method: developing metaphors