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Women and Election Activism in Uganda: The Pads4Girls Social Media Campaign
Get PDFThis chapter draws on experiences from Uganda to interrogate social media’s potential to
facilitate women’s participation in electoral processes. Through taking the Pads4Girls
campaign in the aftermath of the Ugandan 2016 election as a case, the chapter examines how
social media can contribute to political change and electoral democracy. Social media’s
potential in public communication has been demonstrated during elections globally and in
heightened political situations in Uganda. Some of the most vibrant debates in Uganda were
on Facebook and Twitter during the 2011 and 2016 elections and their aftermath. The data
were collected through analysis of Facebook content about the Pads4girls campaign and
interviewing. The chapter builds on debates about media and gender and argues that social
media facilitate conversation on electoral matters but their role depends on the context within
which they are applied. The Pads4Girls campaign ended with the imprisonment of its
architect over cyber harassment.acceptedVersio
UK Live Comedy Sector Survey Report 2024
Get PDFThe UK Live Comedy Sector Survey 2024 was jointly conducted by the Centre for Comedy Studies Research at
Brunel University, the Live Comedy Association, and British Comedy Guide. The UK Live Comedy Sector Survey was administered by Brunel University of London and ethical approval to conduct the survey was received from the College of Business, Arts and Social Sciences Research Ethics Committee at Brunel University of London.This report outlines the main findings of the UK Live Comedy Sector Survey 2024 conducted by the Centre for Comedy Studies Research (CCSR), the Live Comedy Association (LCA) and British Comedy Guide (BCG). Until now very little was known about the size, scale and impact of the UK live comedy sector. The survey provides detailed insights about the economics of the live comedy sector including its size and its longevity, numbers of shows and ticket sales, and turnover. It also provides insights into regional variations, venues used and performance types supported, and reveals inequalities and inequities prevalent in the sector. The survey serves to support and advocate live comedy in the UK politically, economically and socially.
366 people working in UK live comedy completed the survey. 67% of respondents were comedians.
33% of respondents were people working as comedy promoters, producers, venue managers, festival
organisers or agentsLive Comedy Association; Brunel University of London. Centre for Comedy Studies Research (CCSR); British Comedy Guide
A rite of passage: a mixed methodology study about knowledge, perceptions and practices of menstrual hygiene management in rural Gambia
No full textMenstrual hygiene management and sustainable development
No full textMenstrual hygiene management (MHM) is the process of managing menstrual blood, produced during menstruation by females from adolescence until perimenopause. The UNICEF and UNICEF definition highlights the need for “clean menstrual management material to absorb or collect menstrual blood,” and the need for these to be “changed in privacy as often as necessary” during a menstrual period as well as privacy and access to “soap and water for washing the body as required,” and “access to facilities to dispose of used menstrual management materials” (WHO/UNICEF 2012). Effective healthy menstrual hygiene management in this definition involves access – to information, materials, facilities, soap, and water and to dispose of materials but this is by no means the whole story. A number of sociocultural issues and taboos surround the subject of menstruation, making this a challenging topic, locally and globally
