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Household energy use in Uganda:
(The Architectural Science Association and The University of Melbourne, 2015)
This paper details patterns of energy consumption for domestic buildings in urban areas of Uganda. The paper shows the range of energy sources employed by households, the level of consumption of energy, as well as common ...
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 ...
A Randomised Placebo-Controlled Safety and Acceptability Trial of PRO 2000 Vaginal Microbicide Gel in Sexually Active Women in Uganda
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2010)
Abstract
Objectives To determine the safety of 0.5% and 2% PRO 2000 gel in terms of local and systemic adverse events (AE) and the acceptability of gel use.
Design A randomised placebo-controlled trial among healthy, ...
Hurdles and opportunities for newborn care in rural Uganda
(Elsevier, 2011-12-01)
Introduction
a set of evidence-based delivery and neonatal practices have the potential to reduce neonatal mortality substantially. However, resistance to the acceptance and adoption of these practices may still be a ...