This ethnographic study examines how amateur football empowers women in Argentina and Brazil. Despite historical exclusion, participation helps women challenge gender norms, build confidence, and form supportive communities. Football becomes a pathway to broader social empowerment, offering insights for policies promoting gender equality through increased access to sport.

This research explores how displacement and silence shape the identities of adult children of Central American immigrants. Through interviews, it examines fragmented senses of self and links displacement-related grief to lower college belonging and retention, arguing for curricular, mentoring, and community-based interventions in higher education.

This research examines how multiple sclerosis disrupts meaning and identity beyond physical symptoms. A nurse-led, group-based intervention helps people with MS rebuild purpose and quality of life. By targeting meaning alongside medical treatment, the project addresses the often-overlooked psychological impact of chronic illness and offers a scalable model for holistic care.

This talk examines how nineteenth-century British novels portray domestic violence as a necessary tool for women to escape the restrictive inside–outside gender model. Using Bertha Mason in Jane Eyre, it shows how violent acts disrupt patriarchal structures, granting women agency, identity, and a path toward equality.

This thesis explores how whiteness operates as an invisible cultural norm in Australia by analysing Aboriginal accounts of exclusion and marginalisation. Through creative and critical methods, the research reveals how white cultural dominance shapes social life and highlights the need for awareness, debate, and structural change to build a more equitable nation.

This research analyses Urdu women’s magazines and interviews with readers to highlight how North Indian Muslim women use popular literature to express identity, debate social issues, and build community. By recognising these magazines as meaningful cultural archives, the project challenges stereotypes and restores Muslim women’s voices to the centre of academic discourse.