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Menstrual Health at Work

For International Women’s Day, we share some findings from our research on menstrual health at work. Feel free to download our infographic and watch our seminar.

Published : 08/03/2024

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EDICa’s workstream on the career lifecycle focuses on the gap in research on menstrual health – this includes normal and problematic menstruation and (peri)menopause.

Supporting menstruation at work

In this seminar EDICa postdoctoral research associate Chiara Cocco shares initial findings from our evidence review and 50+ interviews of people with lived experience. Ellie Honan – polar scientist and PhD researcher in snow petrel movement and diet, Vice President of UK Polar Network -shared her work on raising awareness and understanding in this area. See BBC article on her tackling of taboo periods. Dharma Reyes Macaya – Senior Technician in palaeoceanography and biogeochemistry in the Lyell Centre for Earth & Marine Science & Technology and PhD researcher at MARUM, University of Bremen, Germany – shares her experience of menstruation and conducting fieldwork on research ships. Ashmika Motee, PhD researcher, explains her research on problematic menstruation and remote work environments. Juliet Nwafor, PhD researcher, introduces her research on menstruation in the banking sector of Nigeria. And Gabriella Goodrich, PhD researcher, shares her research project on menstrual health in the hospitality sector.

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Poster to download

https://edicaucus.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/EDICa-Menstrual-Health-at-Work-Top-Tips-1.pdf

Featured promos component

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Disability Access Workshop Recording

Date: 15th March 2024

EDICa hosted Dr Katherine Deane and Dan Burrill from U of East Anglia to speak about making universities more accessible. Recording and slides here.

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Black Professors

Date: 28th February 2023

EDICa’s PI, Prof Kate Sang, writes about the need for EDI research, as the Caucus kicked off.

Dr Anjali Mazumder

AI and Justice and Human Rights Theme Lead

The Turing Institute

Anjali Mazumder is the Theme Lead on AI and Justice & Human Rights. Her work focuses on empowering government and non-profit organisations by co-designing and developing responsible and inclusive data and AI methods, tools and frameworks for safeguarding people from harm – particularly those most vulnerable, building resilient institutions and systems, and accelerating the opportunity for inclusive, fair and just services, systems, economies, and communities. She is passionate about fostering multi-disciplinary collaborations and multi-sector partnerships to co-create pathways for innovation that improves services, policy, and actions to safeguard human rights and address humanitarian challenges. Her research interests are in developing integrated Bayesian decision support systems to manage uncertainty with complex data structures, value of evidence, causal reasoning in the wild; expert judgement; detecting bias and algorithmic fairness; socio-technical solutions to harnessing multiple disparate sources of data whilst enabling responsible and inclusive data and AI principles and practices; communicating uncertainty and risk; and safeguarding rights and the Rule of Law.

She has over 15 years’ experience tackling fundamental statistical problems of societal importance – human rights, justice, security, the Law, education, public health & safety – working at the interface of research, policy and practice in the UK, the US, and Canada, fostering multi-disciplinary and cross-sector collaborations. She was appointed to Canada’s National DNA Databank Advisory Committee (2012-2018) and currently serves on the UK Forensic Science Regulator’s fingerprint interpretation subgroup, and the senior management board of the UK’s Policy and Evidence Centre for Modern Slavery and Human Rights. She has also served the Royal Statistical Society in a variety of ways, most recently appointed to the Statistics & Law Section and the Data Science Section committees. She holds a doctorate in Statistics from the University of Oxford and two masters’ degrees in Measurement and Evaluation, and Statistics from the University of Toronto.

Dr Jenny Douglas

Senior Lecturer in Health Promotion
Faculty of Wellbeing, Education & Language Studies

Dr Jenny Douglas is passionate about the health and wellbeing of black women as evidenced through her research and public engagement. She has a PhD in Women’s Studies and completed her doctoral thesis on cigarette smoking and identity among African-Caribbean young women in contemporary British society. This research brought together two divergent research traditions: medical public health and health promotion approaches with sociological approaches to researching cigarette smoking. This interdisciplinary research approach brings together sociology, public health and women’s studies. Her commitment to comparative approaches finds expression not only in working across disciplinary and national boundaries, but also across theoretical and methodological traditions. Her research is both varied and wide ranging spanning 30 years on issues of race, health, gender and ethnicity. The key theme unifying her research and activism is intersectionality – exploring how ‘race’, class and gender affect particular aspects of African – Caribbean women’s health.

Jenny Douglas established and chairs the Black Women’s Health and Wellbeing Research Network. (www.open.ac.uk/black-womens-health-and-wellbeing) and her ambition is to establish a research institute on the health and wellbeing of black women. She is a contributing author to ‘Inside the Ivory Tower’.

Jenny Douglas is a Senior Lecturer in Health Promotion in the Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies at the Open University. She has a PhD in Women’s Studies from the University of York, an MA in Sociological Research in Health Care from the University of Warwick, an MSc in Environmental Pollution Control from the University of Leeds and a BSc (Hons) in Microbiology and Virology from the University of Warwick. She is module lead of the K311 – ‘Promoting Public Health’, is an honorary member of the Faculty of Public Health and is a director of the UK Public Health Register.

Jenny is a Research Affiliate of the Institute for Intersectionality Research and Policy, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada and a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Psychology at The George Washington University, Washington D.C., USA.