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Exploring gender equality in the health workforce: A study in Uganda and Somalia
(Tropical Health and Education Trust (THET), 2019)
A Gender Study commissioned by THET in 2017 found that gender inequity is widely recognised as an obstacle for women working in the health sector in LMICs. The study identified three key issues:
Discrimination against ...
The construction of gender in Ugandan English textbooks: a focus on gendered discourses
(Taylor and Francis, 2018)
Informed by a feminist post-structural framework, this study departs
from the overriding emphasis on explicit constructions of women
in textbooks. It focuses on culturally implicit knowledge and/or
gendered discourses ...
‘Madam, are you one of them?’ ‘Reflexivities of discomfort’ in researching an ‘illicit’ subject
(Taylor and Francis, 2018)
Informed largely by Affect theory (2004), this paper takes up ‘reflexivities of
discomfort’ to reflexively engage with my affective struggles as a Christian,
heterosexual, mother, educator, undertaking a study on ...
Networked texts: discourse, power and gender neutrality in Ugandan physics textbooks
(Taylor and Francis, 2018-11-15)
Research within science textbooks has dominantly focused on examining explicit representations of women and men using quantitative methodology. The assumption that gendered arrangements are necessarily explicit and therefore ...
The representation of gender in English textbooks in Uganda
(Taylor and Francis, 2012-06-29)
The central role played by textbooks in children’s education in developing
countries has been highlighted previously in this journal. This paper
reports on how an English-language textbook used commonly in Ugandan
secondary ...
Government policy on science education in Uganda: A glass-ceiling for women’s access to higher education
(2013)
The paper assesses the Ugandan policy on science education and its implications for girls‟
access to higher education. The rationale behind this policy was to build capacity in the field
of science in Uganda. Consequently, ...
From the classroom to the hospital ward: Dr Lydia Namatende-Sakwa on gender mainstreaming in Uganda
(THEFT, 2019-08)
My interest in gender equity was largely shaped by my experience as a young English teacher in a co-educational secondary school in Uganda. I completed both my primary and secondary education in single-sex schools which ...
Agency within Crevices of Subordination: Female Teacher Educators’ Gendered Lived Experiences in Uganda
(Center for Research on Culture and Gender, Gent University, Belgium, 2016)
This study is an investigation into gendered lived experiences of female teacher
educators in a leading Ugandan university. I focus on the ways in which they have
navigated the patriarchal gendered order in Uganda, in ...