Taiwan-UK Sex, Gender and Sexuality Health Network: making connections, establishing commonality, forwarding research

这个台湾-英国性、性别与性健康网络项目将汇集在台湾和英国工作的社会研究人员，建立关系，交流思想和计划合作研究项目。所有的研究人员都对少数人的健康和幸福感兴趣，因为他们的身体，他们的男性气质或女性气质，或者他们的性取向。性、社会性别和性取向在两国的文化生活和研究中都是越来越重要的概念。设计一般人口调查的人认识到需要更敏感的问题，记录对健康、公民权利和生活质量至关重要的人类差异。对性、社会性别和性行为进行集中调查的人需要一个共同的词汇来交流他们的概念和发现。这个项目将满足这两个需求。我们的项目始于一个由九名研究人员组成的小型工作组，他们将在每个国家确定并接触至多100名相关研究人员。他们将被提供“配对”服务，根据共同的兴趣或研究方法（例如调查、定性调查、观察、文献分析、实验、文献回顾），将他们与另一个国家的适当的相应研究人员配对。我们把研究对象称为“网友”（就像笔友一样，但在网上）。网友们将被要求共同回答一些关于他们如何定义和衡量性和性别的各个方面的关键问题，并探索共同的兴趣。我们希望显著的文化差异和突出的学术相似性的结合将为研究调查激发新的思路。在这个研究人员网络的帮助下，工作组将编制一个问题目录，这些问题可以或可以用于对性、性别和性取向进行分类或衡量的研究。这将提供给研究网络，并将作为两个由10名研究人员组成的便利小组（每个国家一名）集中讨论这些概念的基础。这些讨论将确定SGS测量和研究面临的挑战和机遇。所有网友和其他研究人员将被邀请参加由台湾工作组举办的关于SGS测量的在线/现场混合研讨会，以配合国际性别科学与技术会议。为了加深小组成员之间的研究关系，两位英国研究人员将访问台湾，提出他们的想法，并参加SGS的利益相关者会议，大家可以对网友的研究想法进行评论。在此过程中，将邀请并支持六对网友对制作感兴趣的主题短片，并在社交媒体上传播。为了平衡，三位台湾研究人员将互访英国，审查最终的问题目录（包括英文和中文的匹配问题），与重要的英国学者会面，并参加在伦敦卫生和热带医学学院举行的为期半天的研讨会，工作组将审查和展示整个项目的成果。综上所述，我们计划建立一个台英研究网络，以建立沟通渠道，确定有效和适当的措施，并发展英台合作研究项目。我们打算将这些结合起来改进研究，从而提高因性别和/或性取向而被边缘化的人的健康和福祉。

This Taiwan-UK Sex, Gender and Sexuality Health Network project will bring together social researchers working in Taiwan and the UK to build relationships, exchange ideas and plan collaborative research projects. All the researchers have interests in the health and well-being of people who are in a minority because of their bodies, their masculinity or femininity, or their sexual orientation. Sex, gender, and sexual orientation are increasingly important concepts in the cultural life of both countries and in research. People designing general population surveys recognise a need for more sensitive questions that register human differences important for health, civil rights, and quality of life. People doing focussed investigations about sex, gender and sexuality need a common vocabulary to communicate their concepts and findings. This project will address both of these needs.Our project starts with a small taskforce of nine researchers, who will identify and approach up to one hundred relevant researchers in each country. They will be offered a 'match-making' service to pair them with an appropriate corresponding researcher in the other country based on common interests or research methods (for example, surveys, qualitative investigations, observation, documentary analysis, experiments, literature reviewing). We call the research couples 'net-pals' (like pen-pals but over the internet). Net-pals will be asked to address together some key questions about how they define and measure the various aspects of sex and gender, and to explore common interests. We hope the combination of significant cultural difference and prominent academic similarity will spark fresh ideas for research investigations.With the help of this network of researchers, the taskforce will compile a directory of questions that are or can be used in research to classify or measure sex, gender and sexual orientation. This will be available to the research network and will be used as a foundation for focussed discussion of the concepts in two facilitated groups of 10 researchers, one in each country. These discussions will identify challenges and opportunities for SGS measurement and research with SGS minorities.All net-pals and other researchers will be invited to a mixed online/in-person workshop on SGS measurement, delivered by the taskforce in Taiwan to coincide with the International Conference on Gender in Science & Technology.To deepen the research relationship between the taskforce members, two UK researchers will visit Taiwan to present ideas and participate in an SGS stakeholders conference about the project where people can comment on the net-pals' research ideas. Following this process, six net-pal pairs will be invited and supported to make short films about topics of interest for dissemination on social media.For balance, three Taiwan researchers will make a reciprocal visit to the UK to review the final directory of questions (with matching questions in English and Mandarin Chinese), to meet with significant UK scholars, and to attend a half-day symposium at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine where the taskforce will review and present the outcomes of the overall project.In summary, we plan to establish a Taiwan-UK research network that will create channels of communication, identify valid and appropriate measures, and develop collaborative UK-Taiwan research projects. We intend that these together will improve research and thereby increase the health and well-being of people marginalised because of their sex, their gender and/or their sexuality.