About Gender Justice Research

What is Gender Justice?

Gender justice seeks to address the deeper structural, social, and institutional barriers that perpetuate gender-based oppression, discrimination, and violence. It recognises and works to transform the unequal power relations that marginalise people based on their gender identity, while centering the lived experiences of women, girls, and gender-diverse individuals. Gender justice calls for the redistribution of power, resources, and opportunities, and includes access to rights such as bodily autonomy, reproductive freedom, economic equity, and freedom from violence. It is rooted in intersectionality, acknowledging how gender intersects with race, class, sexuality, disability, and other identities to shape experiences of injustice — and demands both legal reform and cultural change to achieve meaningful, lasting transformation.

About me

Dr Lauren Eglen is a Senior Research Fellow in Gender Justice at the University of Nottingham, UK. With a research background in the history of race, gender and social movements, she takes an intersectional feminist approach to her current research on gendered violence and human trafficking. Lauren is interested in how interlocking systems of oppression interact to shape people’s lived experience of oppression and violence across intersecting global challenges. She is committed to the use of participatory research methods and the value of experiential knowledge in developing approaches to achieve gender justice.

At the University of Nottingham’s Rights Lab, she has worked to build the world’s largest archive of modern slavery survivor narratives: Voices, and has worked on research projects on forced marriage, honour-based abuse, gender-based violence, and using participatory artistic methods for survivor empowerment. She is currently leading a 5-year Wellcome Early Career Award project “A Reproductive Justice Framework for Modern Slavery Research and Practice”.