Racialised ethics, and the complexities of research within marginalised Caribbean communities around violence against women. How to stand with and not over participants, and how researchers account for power, presence, and harm

Dr. Deborah McFee is a gender and development scholar with over 25 years’ experience in the Caribbean. She holds degrees from UWI, the Institute of Social Studies (The Hague), and a PhD in Global Governance and Human Security from UMass Boston, where she won the 2019 Excellence in PhD Research Prize. Her work focuses on gender norms, human security, and the impact of small arms on women and girls in Trinidad and Tobago. An expert in qualitative, participatory, and gender-sensitive methods, she has contributed to national gender equity and equality policies across the English-speaking Caribbean since 2005.