Frequently Asked Questions

  • We will be recruiting participants in January 2026. Sign up to our mailing list below to receive updates about participant recruitment.

  • ‘Family Beyond the Binary’ is being conducted in close collaboration with the charity Gendered Intelligence. This includes having a Community Co-Researcher who forms part of Gendered Intelligence’s team and a Community Advisory Board that meet twice a year to provide input on all aspects of the project.

  • This project is funded by an ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council) New Investigator Grant (2025-2028), which has been awarded to the Project Lead, Susie Bower-Brown.

  • Yes, this study has received ethical approval from the UCL IOE Research Ethics Committee.

  • We are currently recruiting our community advisory board and in January 2026 we will be recruiting our survey participants. Visit Get Involved for more info.

  • All data will be anonymised with a pseudonym of your choice, and it will not be possible to identify individual research participants from the data.

  • As part of the ESRC’s protocols, participant data will be stored for up to 10 years on a secure database. Participants will always be told how their data is being used, who has access to it and how it will be stored. Your personal data will never be shared with other third parties without your explicit consent. Any data shared for the purpose of open science and open data will never contain any personally identifiable information.

  • Academic outputs of this study include journal articles, conference presentations, a special issue on non-binary families and an end-of-project conference.

    Arts-based resources including infographics, illustrations and an animated video, created in collaboration with trans and non-binary artists will form part of the non-academic outputs. These resources will be publicly available online, featured in an end-of-project art and research exhibition, and provided to non-profit organisations and healthcare professionals to increase understanding about non-binary families and share principles of best practice.

    Outputs will be co-produced with co-researcher and findings shared in informal workshops with community members.

    Overall, the outputs of this project will aim to contribute to three key outcomes:

    1.        Increasing the societal representation of non-binary families

    2.        Improving services provided to non-binary individuals

    3.        Advancing methodological and theoretical approaches to studying diverse genders and families