Useful resources to help you carry out research and design with vulnerable people

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Resources

Collected by the GOV.UK Design System team

Defining Trauma

SAMHSA's Concept of Trauma and Guidance for a Trauma-Informed Approach, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
https://store.samhsa.gov/sites/default/files/d7/priv/sma14-4884.pdf

Making your research practice trauma informed

Designing safer tech. Orbits: a global field guide to advance intersectional, survivor-centred, and trauma-informed interventions to TGBV

Building a trauma-informed research practice, Ad Hoc
https://adhoc.team/2022/09/06/building-trauma-informed-research-practice/

UX research with survivors of trauma, Jenny H Winfield
https://blog.chayn.co/

Research, design and power

Considering research as a potentially therapeutic event for participants
Practising Without a Licence: Design Research as Psychotherapy
Tad Hirsch

Design Education’s Big Gap: Understanding the Role of Power, George Aye
https://medium.com/greater-good-studio/design-educations-big-gap-understandin
g-the-role-of-power-1ee1756b7f08
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQfaNz384zI&t=877s

Designing safer tech

Trauma-Informed Design, Rachael Dietkus, Sarah Fathallah and Sarah Cantor Aye
(Video, requires sign-in)
https://vimeo.com/466407089

Orbits: a global field guide to advance intersectional, survivor-centred, and trauma-informed interventions to TGBV

IBM
Five Technology Design Principles to Combat Domestic Abuse

Principles to guide tech development
https://superrr.net/feministtech/principles/

Broader definitions of trauma informed practice

Trauma-informed practice: toolkit, Scottish Government
https://www.gov.scot/publications/trauma-informed-practice-toolkit-scotland/pages/10/

Working definition of trauma-informed practice, UK Government
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/working-definition-of-trauma-informed-prac
tice/working-definition-of-trauma-informed-practice

Framework to support social research

Women’s Aid
Research Integrity Framework RIF on Domestic Violence and Abuse DVA November 2020.

A practical guide which applies good practice to social research.
Trauma-Informed Social Research- A Practical Guide -
Kerry Dowding

Training in trauma-informed approach to user research.

Janice Hannaway and Jane Reid
https://researchutraining.com/
Jax Wechsler
https://socialdesignsydney.com/training-trauma-informed-design-research-practice-process-methods/

Good reads

Design for Safety, Eva PenzeyMoog

Design Justice, Sasha Costanza-Chock
https://designjustice.org/read-the-principles

The Body Keeps the Score,
https://www.besselvanderkolk.com/resources/the-body-keeps-the-score

Resources which may support you getting buy-in to implement Exit this page on your service

Shadow Pandemic. Shining a light on domestic abuse during the pandemic.
https://www.womensaid.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Shadow_Pandemic_Report_FINAL.pdf

Key findings from analysis of domestic homicide reviews: October 2019 to September 2020 (accessible)
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/key-findings-from-analysis-of-domestic-homicide-reviews/key-findings-from-analysis-of-domestic-homicide-reviews

Review which evidences the increase of domestic abuse reports to the police in May and June 2020 and references the increase in calls to support organisations.
https://www.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/hmicfrs/wp-content/uploads/review-of-policing-domestic-abuse-during-the-pandemic-2021.pdf

Domestic abuse during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, England and Wales: November 2020
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/articles/domesticabuseduringthecoronaviruscovid19pandemicenglandandwales/november2020