University of Humanistic Studies

The lived experience of trans persons: a bottom-up review co-written by experts by experience and academics.

We present here the first bottom-up review of the lived experience of trans persons, co-written by experts by experience and academics. We sourced the medical and non-medical literature, focusing on first-person narratives, and critically extracted experiential themes, which were...

Narrating everyday harm: Constructing stories of microaggression

Experiences of victimization highlight the importance of storytelling as much as they obstruct it. Although victimology tends to focus on clearly severe and/or conventional forms of harm, this article turns to experiences that are both common and contested. Specifically, we exami...

On the necessity of an alternative conception of liberal moral education in the Global North

This paper describes and defends an account of a liberal philosopher of education in response to the current political, social justice and ecological crises that are prevalent in many countries in the Global North and that are attributed to the dominance of (neo)liberalism. It be...

Homicide at home: setting the agenda for an international collaboration to improve support for children bereaved due to family violence

Background: Bereavement due to fatal family violence (e.g. intimate partner homicide, filicide, parricide, siblicide) is a profoundly disruptive experience for children, with lifelong psychosocial consequences. Although the need for fatal family violence prevention is increasingl...