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{"title":"Knowledge and perception of the implementation of the policy against sexual harassment at Makerere University, Uganda.","authors":"Noeline Nakasujja, Anita Arinda, Proscovia Nabunya, Rachel Brathwaite, Gertrude Sebunya Muwanga, Euzobia M Mugisha Baine, Janet Nakigudde, Ana A Baumann, Mary M McKay, Fred M Ssewamala","doi":"10.1007/s43545-026-01408-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s43545-026-01408-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Sexual misconduct and harassment are prevalent at higher education institutions. Makerere University introduced a Policy and Regulations against Sexual Harassment in 2006, which was revised in 2018 following institutional investigations and recommendations. However, the extent to which the revised policy has been effectively implemented has not been formally evaluated. This study evaluated the implementation of Makerere University's policy against sexual misconduct and harassment. Data was collected from 300 students and staff across all ten university colleges to examine policy knowledge, perceptions of implementation strategies, perceived impact, and experiences with policy implementation. Of the 300 participants, 48% were students, 20% were non-teaching staff, 16% were teaching staff, and 16% were support staff. The majority (77%) of the participants demonstrated moderate to adequate knowledge of the policy. Only 26% had received sexual harassment training from the University. Only 16% and 11.7% of the participants reported a positive perception of policy implementation and handling of sexual harassment cases, respectively. Training was associated with greater policy knowledge and more positive perceptions of policy implementation and complaint handling. Policy knowledge and perceptions differed across groups: males, professional staff, and older participants had higher policy knowledge; professional staff reported more positive perceptions of case handling; and younger participants expressed more favorable views of policy implementation. These findings indicate significant gaps between policy availability and effective implementation, particularly in training, stakeholder engagement, and confidence in complaint handling. There's a need for strengthened implementation strategies to enhance institutional responses to sexual harassment and improve student and staff safety and wellbeing in higher education settings.</p>","PeriodicalId":74819,"journal":{"name":"SN social sciences","volume":"6 4","pages":"128"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13002687/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147500967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"When midwife continuity of carer is the policy proposal, what is the problem of perinatal health inequalities represented to be?","authors":"Ditte Madsen","doi":"10.1007/s43545-025-01085-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s43545-025-01085-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Midwife continuity of carer (MCOC) is widely recommended to protect birthing people against disrespectful care and mitigate effects of social adversity. In the UK, this is reflected in the Core20PLUS5 framework, which identifies maternity and, specifically, MCOC as one of five national priorities for reducing healthcare inequalities. Within health policy networks, the prevailing view of the policy process is that the task of government is to find solutions to existing policy problems. A critical policy approach, in contrast, considers how any policy proposal represents a problem in a particular way, shaping what is perceived as possible or desirable. Adopting this approach, I suggest that the promise of MCOC (and, specifically, intrapartum continuity) has been overstated, given the context of extreme social inequality, chronic underfunding of the NHS, the impact of austerity and the denial of structural racism in the UK. MCOC has been found to improve access, experience, and outcomes for disadvantaged and racially minoritized people by offering more personalized care. When MCOC is the policy proposal, however, the problem of inequalities in perinatal health tends to be represented in terms of fragmented maternity care, limiting policy discussion of the drivers of health inequality. This enables elected officials to appear to address health inequality by relying on midwives to adopt more flexible working practices. Representing the problem as a matter of health justice, in contrast, not only requires that personalized care is informed by structural competency and cultural safety but demands that policymakers address structural drivers beyond the healthcare system.</p>","PeriodicalId":74819,"journal":{"name":"SN social sciences","volume":"5 5","pages":"67"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12064444/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144044028","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Gender inequality in legislative representation: the case of women representation in Ghana’s Parliament","authors":"Daniel Kennedy Amoah","doi":"10.1007/s43545-024-00936-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s43545-024-00936-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74819,"journal":{"name":"SN social sciences","volume":"47 18","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141649008","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Self-organization of social hierarchies studied with Monte-Carlo simulations; self-destroying join-believe-fight system as an inevitable outcome","authors":"Peter Stallinga","doi":"10.1007/s43545-024-00905-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s43545-024-00905-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74819,"journal":{"name":"SN social sciences","volume":"56 14","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141654415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Preserving culinary heritage and promoting sustainability: an overview of botanical nutrition regarding herbs and spices used on the territory of today’s Cameroon","authors":"Fabrice Fabien Dongho Dongmo, C. B. Zangueu, William Djeukeu Asongni, Wilfried Dongmo Tekapi Tsopgni, Guy Herman Zanguim Tchoutezou, Jasmine Nguimfack Dongmo, F. Tchuenbou-Magaia, Rébecca Madeleine Ebelle Etame, M. Sameza, I. Gouado, Rosalie Annie Ngono Ngane","doi":"10.1007/s43545-024-00910-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s43545-024-00910-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74819,"journal":{"name":"SN social sciences","volume":"120 45","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141657027","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Analysing modes of reflection in experiential learning: a sociocultural perspective on student peer editing","authors":"Bruno Balducci, Kishwer Sultana","doi":"10.1007/s43545-024-00937-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s43545-024-00937-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74819,"journal":{"name":"SN social sciences","volume":"81 21","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141657816","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“It Could Have Been Us”: media frames and the coverage of Ukrainian, Afghan and Syrian refugee crises","authors":"Btihaj Ajana, Hannah Connell, Tyler Liddle","doi":"10.1007/s43545-024-00943-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s43545-024-00943-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74819,"journal":{"name":"SN social sciences","volume":"90 14","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141657631","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Geographical patterns of under-five mortality in Nigeria: does internet use matter?","authors":"Richard Adeleke, A. Iyanda","doi":"10.1007/s43545-024-00935-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s43545-024-00935-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74819,"journal":{"name":"SN social sciences","volume":"22 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141660603","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A study of the prevalence of nomophobia and its associated variables among university students","authors":"Kadir Aydin, Fatma Geçikli","doi":"10.1007/s43545-024-00927-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s43545-024-00927-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74819,"journal":{"name":"SN social sciences","volume":"30 22","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141662282","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Out of school children in the context of new policy trajectories and interlocking crises in Zimbabwe: a transformative social policy perspective","authors":"Clement Chipenda, Logan Cochrane","doi":"10.1007/s43545-024-00938-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s43545-024-00938-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74819,"journal":{"name":"SN social sciences","volume":"108 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141666034","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}