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Publications + Trainings

With an extensive body of work spanning peer-reviewed research, grey literature, media contributions, and facilitation, my writing, speaking, and trainings reflect a deep commitment to advancing gender equality, inclusive practices, improved health outcomes, and violence prevention. Here’s a curated selection of my publications, trainings, and talks across various topics.

An Anthology of Canadian Birth Stories:

Inspiring Stories and Essential Guidance for Parents, Parents-To-Be, and Healthcare Providers

Co-edited by Laura Pascoe & Joseé Leduc

This is a must-read! This book teems beautifully written birth stories, compelling imagery, and useful evidence-based guidance for birth givers and those who support them. American clients: This book may be birth stories from your Canadian neighbors, but I promise there is still so much here for you! So many of these stories are universal, and some will help provide valuable contrast so you may better understand your options as you prepare to birth in the U.S. Proceeds go back to the Doula Support Foundation, so buy now on Amazon or on the Praeclarus Press website. Love it? Help us get the word out by leaving a review!​

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Selected Talks + Trainings

Bringing research and practice into action through engaging and dynamic trainings.

Birth + Maternal Health

  • Labor support and positioning: An interdisciplinary training (2024) – Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center

Gender Inclusivity + Equality

  • I’m Well When I Am Seen: Gender Inclusivity & Supporting All to Thrive (2024–2025) – Offered multiple times and available for booking. *Contact me to bring this training to your school/workplace.*

  • Strength in Belonging: Gender Inclusivity & Sports (2025) – Offered multiple times and available for booking. *Contact me to bring this training to your school/workplace.*

  • EarlyON Gender Workshops: Training for Early Childhood Educators (2020) – Available for booking.

Engaging Men + Boys

  • Men, Disabilities, & War: Disability-Inclusive Approaches (2022) – UNFPA EECA

  • Building on What Works: Evidence on 10 Promising Practices to Engage and Mobilize More Men for Violence Prevention and Gender Equality (2022) – Diverse Voices Family Violence Conference

  • Addressing the Health Needs of Men & Boys: An Analysis of National Policies in Eastern and Southern Africa (2022) – Share-Net SRHR Webinar

 Sexual Health, Relationships, + Pleasure

  • Gettin’ Cliterate: The Little-Known Truths of the Clitoris (2017) – Nerd Night Speaker Series

  • Pillow Talk is Big Talk: Gender & Intimacy in South Africa (2017) – University of Guelph

 Violence Prevention + Organizational Change

  • Post-Gender-based Violence Service Provision for Health Care Providers (2017–2018) – Malawi

  • Gender & the Nonprofit Sector (2015) – UC Davis

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Featured Published Works + Curricula

Advancing gender equality, sexual and reproductive health, violence prevention, and organizational transformation through research and writing.

Birth + Fatherhood + Health

  • Pascoe, L. (2023). Birthing consent: Supporting shared decision-making and informed consent in labour and childbirth. In L. James-Hawkins, & R. Ryan-Flood (Eds.), Consent: Gender, power, and subjectivity. Routledge Press.

  • Hansen, B., Pascoe, L., & Wells, L. (2022). Engaging men through fatherhood to prevent violence and advance gender equality: Rapid evidence review. Calgary, AB. The University of Calgary, Shift: The Project to End Domestic Violence.

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  • Pascoe, L., Peacock, D., Stemple, L. (2018). Reaching men: Addressing the blind spot in the HIV response. International Journal of Men’s Social and Community Health, 1(1).

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  • Pascoe, L., Peacock, D. (2017). Addressing the health needs of men and boys: An analysis of national policies in Eastern & Southern Africa. Commissioned by UNAIDS Headquarters; published by Sonke Gender Justice: Cape Town. 

  • Pascoe, L. (lead author), and contributing authors. (2014). Interdisciplinary global health: Contributions beyond the health sciences. In J. Evert, P. Drain, T. Hall, & N. Habibullah (Eds.). Developing global health programming: A guidebook for medical and professional schools (2nd ed.). Global Health Education Collaboration Press.

Sexual Health, Relationships, & Pleasure

  • Pascoe, L. (2022). More to be desired: The need to engage men and couples around communication, sexual pleasure, and consent in Southern African safer sex interventions. In D. Bhana, M. Crewe, & P. Aggleton (Eds.), Sex, sexualities and sexual health in Southern Africa: Contemporary perspectives. Routledge Press.

  • Pascoe, L. (2021). Negotiating HIV and pregnancy prevention and sexual pleasure amongst heterosexual men and women in South Africa. Culture, Health, and Sexuality, 23(1), 115-130.

  • Pascoe, L. (2018). Women’s sexual pleasure and the intimate spaces of heterosexual sex in Cape Town, South Africa. In S. Choudhury, J.T. Erausquin, & M. Withers (Eds.), Global perspectives on women’s sexual and reproductive health across the lifecourse. Springer.

  • Pascoe, L., Zakaras, J., Newmann, S. (2017). Stronger together: Investigating a masculinities-based approach to increase male acceptance of family planning in Kenya. [Workshop Manual]. University of California, San Francisco & Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI).

Gender Equality and LGBTQ+

  • Pascoe, L., others (2025). Gender Equality Dialogues (GED) Facilitator’s Guide + Program Manual. Seafood and Gender Equality (SAGE).

  • Pascoe, L. (2014, 16 May). Empty promises or promising new beginnings? South African government launches three-year gay rights campaign. Groundup. South Africa. 

Violence Prevention + Response

  • Peacock, D., Pascoe, L., Pino, A., Welsh, P. (2024, in press). Seeing the forest for the trees: The case for a more structural approach to addressing militarized masculinities and possible pathways to peace. In H. Myrttinen & H. Touquet (Eds.), Masculinities, Conflict, and Peacebuilding Handbook. Routledge Press.

  • Peacock, D., Pino, A., & Pascoe, L. (2024). United Nations Human Rights Council Resolution 35/10 on engaging men and boys in preventing and responding to violence against all women and girls: Training on the use and impacts of Resolution 35/10 [Online course]. Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF).

  • Pascoe, L. (2017). Post-Gender Based Violence service provision training manual for health care providers. [Workshop Manual]. Malawi.

Engaging Men + Boys

  • Pascoe, L., Phung, N., Wells, L., & Esina, E. (2023). Expanding the Behavior Change Toolbox: A Rapid Review of Gamification to Engage Men and Boys in Violence Prevention and Gender Equality. Journal of Technology in Behavioral Science.

  • Wells, L., Fotheringham, S., & Pascoe, L. (2023). Canadian men’s insights on engaging men and boys in creating a more gender equal future. Violence Against Women, 30(1).

  • Pascoe, L., Peacock, D. (2023). Raising us all: UNFPA Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Strategy for engaging men and boys for violence prevention, gender equality, and sexual and reproductive health and rights for all. UNFPA Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office (ESARO).

  • Pascoe, L., & Arsenjeva, J. (2022). Disability inclusive development with men and boys: Mainstreaming disability equality in the UNFPA EECA regional MenEngage platform. UNFPA.

  • Pascoe, L., Wells, L. (2022). Building a movement: Mobilizing more men for violence prevention, gender equality, and social justice in Canada (Recommendations for the Government of Canada). Calgary, AB. The University of Calgary, Shift: The Project to End Domestic Violence.

  • Wells, L., Pascoe, L., Dozois, E. (2022). Following the evidence: Nine promising approaches for practitioners engaging men in violence prevention and gender equality. Calgary, AB. The University of Calgary, Shift: The Project to End Domestic Violence.

  • Pascoe, L., & Wells, L. (2022). Calling in Men: A review of literature and the case for calling men “in” to prevent violence and advance equity. Calgary, AB. The University of Calgary, Shift: The Project to End Domestic Violence.

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  • Stern, E., Pascoe, L., Richmond, S., van den Heever, L., Shand, T. (2015). Lessons learned from engaging men in sexual and reproductive health as clients, partners, and advocates of change in the Hoima district of Uganda. Culture, Health, & Sexuality, 17(Suppl 2).
     

Organizational Healing + Transformation

  • Pascoe, L., Peacock, D. (2024). Collective effort for collective gains: Where and how men can contribute towards advancing gender equality within the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and in the communities IOM works [Online course]. International Organization for Migration.

  • Peacock, D., Harper, C., & Pascoe, L. (2023). Report commissioned by WHO Western Pacific region on organizational healing, resilience, and transformation. World Health Organization.

  • ​​Pascoe, L., Haffner, J., Rose, J. (2017). Tender comrades: The left and the politics of shame. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Equality and Diversity (IPED).

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