Evaluating academic and media nongovernmental organization partnerships for participatory data gathering

This article discusses participatory methods for data gathering in the context of a partnership between a Swiss-based media development organization, Fondation Hirondelle, and a research team at the University of Sheffield. In 2018–2019, the partnership conducted fieldwork which focused on the impact of radio on women listeners in Niger. The project used participatory methods of data gathering in the form of workshops and focus group discussions (FGDs). The article examines the advantages and limitations of combining the practical experience of international development organizations and the in-depth research capabilities of academia. To triangulate this collaboration and to navigate the limitations of FGDs, the use of workshops is discussed as an important method for providing feedback among the radio practitioners and experts in Niger. The article examines the usefulness of combining these methods and reshaping their application to promote participatory research with radio audiences and practitioners

From exclusion to informal segregation: The limits to racial transformation at the University of Natal

In the context of higher education transformation in South Africa, this paper attempts to capture a series of observations about transformation at the forme r University ofNatal. From a descriptive, multidisciplinary perspective it critiques racial transformation at the University as driven by concerns of representivity over the need for desegregation. We base this discussion on three sets of observations: an analysis of institutional policy, a review of demographic change in the staff and student bodies and a study ofstudents ' lived experiences of segregation on campus. During the past decade a great deal ofchange has occurred in the overall racial demographics of the student and staff bodies. While demographic transformation efforts at the University do echo national trends, a closer inspection ofthe policy, practice and lived experience oftransformation at the University reveals that all is not well. In particular, institutional policy with respect to transformation has tended to be reactive and superficial and students experience camp us as a segregated and racialized space. Thus, racial transformation at the University has only been partially successful: while overt racist exclusion is withering, informal segregation and attendant racialization remain

Determinação da prenhez em novilhas de corte pela dosagem de progesterona ou resistência elétrica vaginal.

Um programa de re-sindronização do estro, baseado no uso de implante com 6mg de norgestomet ao 12@ dia apos uma inseminação artificial (IA) e removido nove dias depois, foi aplicado em 412 novilhas de corte

Eficácia da determinação da resistência elétrica vaginal no diagnóstico de prenhez em bovinos.

Testaram-se dois métodos para o diagnóstico de prenhez em bovinos, um baseado na dosagem sérica de progesterona e outro na leitura da resistência elétrica vaginal.199

Determinação da prenhez em novilhas de corte pela dosagem de progesterona ou resistência elétrica vaginal.

Um programa de re-sindronização do estro, baseado no uso de implante com 6mg de norgestomet ao 12@ dia apos uma inseminação artificial (IA) e removido nove dias depois, foi aplicado em 412 novilhas de corte.1997Resumo expandido

Eficácia da determinação da resistência elétrica vaginal no diagnóstico de prenhez em bovinos.

Testaram-se dois métodos para o diagnóstico de prenhez em bovinos, um baseado na dosagem sérica de progesterona e outro na leitura da resistência elétrica vaginal