- Title
- Exploring staff knowledge and perceptions of Gender Based Violence (GBV) and related support services and intervention strategies at University of Fort Hare, East London Campus
- Creator
- Fiphaza, Kuhle
- Subject
- Gender-based violence -- Eastern Cape -- South Africa
- Subject
- Crisis intervention (Mental health services) -- Administration
- Subject
- Support services (Management)
- Date
- 2023-05
- Type
- Master's theses
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10353/29739
- Identifier
- vital:78885
- Description
- Recently, gender-based violence (GBV) cases in South Africa have increased, despite all the effort that the government had invested in trying to curb GBV. This study explores staff knowledge, perceptions of GBV related to support services and intervention strategies at the University of Fort Hare, East London Campus. To get indepth information from the research participants, this study utilised qualitative research and semi-structured interviews for data collection. Interviews were conducted with ten staff members, eight of whom were females and two of whom were males. This study used convenience and snowball sampling to select the interviewed staff members. This study concludes that most of the research participants were not aware of the support services and intervention strategies that are available to fight gender-based violence at the University of Fort Hare, East London campus. The participants were also not aware of the procedure that needs to be followed when gender-based violence occurs. This study’s findings point to the need for the University of Fort Hare to continue providing educational awareness campaigns for both staff and students and to enlighten the University community about procedures that need to be followed when incidents of gender-based violence take place. In addition, the findings suggest that the research participants' understanding of GBV is, to some extent, influenced by a radical feminist perspective, while the solutions are influenced by a liberal feminist perspective. The research raises the question as to how GBV may be addressed when solutions do not seemingly speak to the cause.
- Description
- Thesis (MSoc Sci) -- Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, 2025
- Format
- computer
- Format
- online resource
- Format
- application/pdf
- Format
- 1 online resource (xi, 119 leaves)
- Format
- Publisher
- University of Fort Hare
- Publisher
- Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities
- Language
- English
- Rights
- rights holder
- Rights
- All Rights Reserved
- Rights
- Open Access
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