Higher Education
the real period project
Higher Education
Menstrual Cycle Awareness and Life/Study Planning.
Between 2024 and 2025 we delivered workshops for students and staff at Kings College London on menstrual wellbeing.
The sessions equipped participants with increased knowledge, awareness and confidence in managing their menstrual cycle and using this newfound awareness to influence how they plan their life and studying. See here for the research undertaken by Kings College London alongside our sessions.
Emily was influenced and inspired by these sessions to propose a program for University students and staff training to deliver their own sessions in house. The pathway to this is through the Foundations of Menstrual Education program. Please contact Emily to enquire about this if you are interested.
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“‘For once, having a period felt like a good thing!’
This was one example of the kinds of positive reviews we received from King’s College London (KCL) students and staff who attended the Real Period Project Information Sessions between 2024 – 25. Over several months, Emily partnered with us at KCL to research how universities can better support menstruating staff and students and how menstruators use—and might use—digital technologies to do this. Emily’s sessions, whether online or in-person, were always safe and welcoming spaces to explore these ideas and ask questions, without any sense of shame, about things participants felt they should and needed to know. She brought kindness and laughter to the conversations, without holding back on some shocking realities about how little research there is into menstrual health. Participants came to the sessions from very different and diverse backgrounds, and for many, this was the first time they had had the opportunity to think and talk so openly about their periods. They left feeling empowered and wanting more! We hope this research is just the beginning of an ongoing and open conversation about menstruation in higher education and are bloody thankful to Emily for making this possible.”
Dr Rikke Amundsen & Dr Laura Gibson – KCL Department of Digital Humanities
in partnership with the chalice foundation
Training for menstrual educators
Are you passionate about delivery effective, engaging and empowering menstrual education in your setting?
We are excited to be working with The Chalice Foundation, an Australian-based international charity delivery positive menstrual education. Foundations of Menstrual Education is for anyone who already teaches or wants to teach about periods and the menstrual cycle in any setting.
Go here for more information and to join the course.
These innovative conversation-starter cards we worked on with Hey Girls are a great resource to use with students and indeed people of any age. You can purchase the cards from Hey Girls here.