Chinese Language Sexual Health Advice
Understanding how to access sexual health services when you are new to the UK can be tricky. If English is not your first language, you have probably never been taught appropriate vocabulary to talk about your sexual health concerns. We worked with a Chinese queer researcher to produce two short, animated videos about sexual health for Chinese speakers in the UK.
More about the project
We listened to Chinese students at local universities to understand their knowledge about how to access health services in the UK and what support they needed to access sexual health services locally. They identified that they didn’t know they could access sexual health services in the UK or how to do that. They also shared that they were embarrassed to talk about sexual health concerns because they didn’t know the appropriate words in English. Our Chinese language animated videos address both of these concerns
This project was led by Xin Pan, a PhD researcher based in the School of Geography, Geology and the Environment at the University of Leicester. Xin undertook a placement at Trade as part of her research about the experience of queer women and non-binary migrants living in Leicester. Her research – including the production of these videos – was funded by the Solidarity in Diversity (SoliDi) Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions research training network based at the University of Antwerp. The animated videos were created by Stef Lee and her colleagues at Kino Bino.
Since these videos were published, we have seen increasing numbers of Chinese students from local universities accessing our services. This project also resulted in Xin working with the UK Health Security Agency to produce a wider range of Chinese language health promotion material.