ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the challenges of undertaking sensitive topic research, specifically gender-based violence (GBV) in minoritised communities. Drawing on research data, it explores three interrelated dynamics of engaging in such research. First, it is often assumed that GBV is largely similar for all women. Second, where GBV in minoritised communities is engaged with, it is frequently framed in a pathologising manner. A third dynamic is the way in which the positioning of minoritised communities, particularly in the current anti-immigration climate, shapes the difficulty of speaking about issues such as GBV without being represented as more barbaric and from a more backward culture than majority communities. Researching GBV within minoritised communities is complex and multi-faceted. GBV research in minoritised communities can usefully utilise quantitative, qualitative or mixed methods approaches in knowledge production. Whilst ethics committees' remits often do not involve commenting on methodology, ethical research and methodology are inextricably interlinked.
