Dr Glynis Clacherty completed her PHD at ACMS in 2016. Her thesis focused on Understanding trauma and trauma intervention in new ways through an examination of the Suitcase Project, a project for unaccompanied refugee children in Hillbrow, Johannesburg. Her career has included over 20 years of working for international NGOs such as UNICEF, ChildFund, UNHCR, Save the Children and War Child. This work has been conducted across southern, eastern and central Africa in multiple contexts such as border towns, refugee settlements, urban environments and deep rural areas. She is recognised internationally as an expert on participatory art-based research with children and youth and has published academic peer-reviewed articles on the approach.
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Glynis Clacherty
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Publications (6)
- 2024 Drawings in a “Container”: A Visual Narrative Approach to Research With Refugee Children Social Inclusion JOURNAL
- 2023 Hair Salons as ‘Private-Public Spaces’: Exploring the Experiences of Young Migrant Women in an Urban Township in South Africa CHAPTER
- 2021 Artbooks as witness of everyday resistance: Using art with displaced children living in Johannesburg, South Africa Global Studies of Childhood JOURNAL
- 2021 Art-based, narrative research with unaccompanied migrant children living in Johannesburg, South Africa Journal of Borderlands Studies JOURNAL
- 2015 Shaping New Spaces: An Alternative Approach to Healing in Current Shelter Interventions for Vulnerable Women in Johannesburg Healing and Change in the City of Gold: Case Studies of Coping and Support in Johannesburg CHAPTER
- 2015 The Suitcase Project: Working with Unaccompanied Child Refugees in New Ways Healing and Change in the City of Gold: Case Studies of Coping and Support in Johannesburg CHAPTER
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ACMS seminar: On the move — where does wellbeing fit?
21 August, 2025
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