PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Amiya Bhatia
AU  - Ellen Turner
AU  - Aggrey Akim
AU  - Angel Mirembe
AU  - Janet Nakuti
AU  - Jenny Parkes
AU  - Simone Datzberger
AU  - Rehema Nagawa
AU  - Mary Kung'u
AU  - Hellen Babu
AU  - Rhoda Kabuti
AU  - Joshua Kimani
AU  - Tara S Beattie
AU  - Ana Flavia d'Oliveira
AU  - Poonam Rishal
AU  - Robert Nyakuwa
AU  - Sadie Bell
AU  - Paul Bukuluki
AU  - Beniamino Cislaghi
AU  - Clare Tanton
AU  - Anne Conolly
AU  - Catherine H Mercer
AU  - Janet Seeley
AU  - Loraine J Bacchus
AU  - Karen Devries
TI  - Remote methods for research on violence against women and children: lessons and challenges from research during the COVID-19 pandemic
AID  - 10.1136/bmjgh-2022-008460
DP  - 2022 Nov 01
TA  - BMJ Global Health
PG  - e008460
VI  - 7
IP  - 11
4099  - http://gh.bmj.com/content/7/11/e008460.short
4100  - http://gh.bmj.com/content/7/11/e008460.full
SO  - BMJ Global Health2022 Nov 01; 7
AB  - Collecting data to understand violence against women and children during and after the COVID-19 pandemic is essential to inform violence prevention and response efforts. Although researchers across fields have pivoted to remote rather than in-person data collection, remote research on violence against women, children and young people poses particular challenges. As a group of violence researchers, we reflect on our experiences across eight studies in six countries that we redesigned to include remote data collection methods. We found the following areas were crucial in fulfilling our commitments to participants, researchers, violence prevention and research ethics: (1) designing remote data collection in the context of strong research partnerships; (2) adapting data collection approaches; (3) developing additional safeguarding processes in the context of remote data collection during the pandemic; and (4) providing remote support for researchers. We discuss lessons learnt in each of these areas and across the research design and implementation process, and summarise key considerations for other researchers considering remote data collection on violence.Data sharing not applicable as no datasets generated and/or analysed for this study.