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Elizabeth Ascroft





Elizabeth Ascroft is an ESRC-funded PhD student at the Open University (UK) and her research explores creative collaboration for producing sexuality education materials with young people in the Caribbean. She is guided by post-humanist and new-materialist inquiry and is motivated by ensuring the meaningful and ethical application of research in practice. Being a researcher is her chosen form of activism and she uses creative, arts-based methods as a tool to facilitate space for collective knowledge generation. At the feminist media studio, she is currently exploring the affordances of the ‘zine-ic’ in her research-creation work. As a practitioner, Elizabeth has over seven years experiences in gender, sexuality, sexual health, and rights programmes for young people and works as a freelance consultant and creative facilitator.

She loves to laugh and takes great pleasure in sharing, creating and being with others.

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Doctoral Researcher, Open University, UK (PhD 2021 - 2025)

Masters in Education Policy for Global Development, GLOBED Consortium (2017-2019)


Elizabeth.Ascroft@open.ac.uk
Ascroftelizabeth@gmail.com





 

Projects and Publications

2021 – 2025: Arts-based co creation of sexuality education materials with young Arubans. In partnership with Famia Planea Aruba and International Planned Parenthood Federation. 

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  • Ascroft, Elizabeth (2024), Getting Co-Creative and Artsy with Young Minds, with Famia Planea and IPPF, Workspace (contact directly for online access to tools).

  • Upcoming: Ascroft, Elizabeth (2025). Zine-ic Lines of Flight: Mapping Praxis within sexuality education research with young people in Aruba. Creative Research on Gender and Sexuality with Children and Young People: Making Methods Matter. Eds. EJ Renold, Tuika Huuki, Suvi Pihkala, Carol Taylor. Routledge, London.


2022- Current: Podcast producer: The Sex, Research and Resistance Podcast, with the Open University.



2018-2020: Gender Violence Through the Eyes of the Bajan Youth. Exploring Spaces for Sexuality Education in Small Island Developing States. In partnership with Dance4Life Barbados.

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