Monica Sanchez Hernandez
Expertise
Monica's expertise is centred around the meanings of being "a man" for those accused of Family Violence in the Mexican Criminal Justice System using decolonising methodologies including workshops and arts.
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Biography
Mónica is an Indigenous-rooted, working-class woman from the Global Majority/ Global South. Currently completing her PhD in Social Policy at the University of Bristol, she examines Intimate Partner Violence and understandings of Manhood within and without prison using Art-Based Methods and Decolonising Methodologies in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, her current project aims to contribute to scholar work to tackle and prevent Gender-Based Violence against Women and Girls with decolonial anticarcelar feminist lenses at the time she is aware of "academic extractivism".
She has been awarded with bursaries to study at universities in Brazil, Belgium, Mexico, and France and the UK carrying out research on commodification of male bodies, migration, and violence. Her work experience has centred on education programmes for incarcerated men in Mexico, homeless young men, and people in precarious mobility trajectories.
She is committed with public engagement activities as she believes research cannot stay locked in ivory towers of academia and is eager to ‘pass the microphone’ through workshops, talks, etc.
Funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, her current project aims to contribute to scholar work to tackle and prevent Gender-Based Violence against Women and Girls with decolonial anticarcelar feminist lenses at the time she is aware of "academic extractivism".
She has been awarded with bursaries to study at universities in Brazil, Belgium, Mexico, and France and the UK carrying out research on commodification of male bodies, migration, and violence. Her work experience has centred on education programmes for incarcerated men in Mexico, homeless young men, and people in precarious mobility trajectories.
She is committed with public engagement activities as she believes research cannot stay locked in ivory towers of academia and is eager to ‘pass the microphone’ through workshops, talks, etc.
Research interests
Her current research examines Intimate Partner Violence and understandings of Manhood within and without prison using Art-Based Methods and Decolonising Methodologies in Oaxaca, Mexico.