The Story of the Hub: Colombia Convention 2023
The Story of the Hub is a body of work that will tell the story of each of the 39 Hub projects (33 projects and 6 collective output projects), bringing together their findings and recommendations in individual and collective formats. The Story of the Hub will synthesise and communicate this research to make a significant contribution to the field of gender, justice and security. This Story will be told in a way that honours the experience of Hub members. Done with balance and perspective, the Story of the Hub will create space for your findings to be told in ways that are inclusive of the emotional labour, personal insights, discomforts, surprises, and joy that sit behind each project – feelings and reflections that are often de-coupled from polished ‘impact stories’ that traditionally are the full stop on research projects like the Hub.
This work started in earnest at the Belfast/London Convention where we engaged with the overall themes, findings, recommendations and impacts of the Hub’s research and practice to date. Since then, we have both expanded the scope, and reframed the work slightly, moving away from the language of Collective Outputs, and towards a wider effort to tell the Story of the Hub as a whole. This journey is a story worth documenting and telling in and of itself. Key moments of the journey have been illustrated in this booklet and show the progression of ideas and methods of working.
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