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Reaching Hard-To-Reach Communities: Using WhatsApp to Give Conflict-Affected Audiences a Voice

Emma Heywood, Beatrice Ivey, Sacha Meuter

International Journal of Social Research Methodology, volume 27, issue 1 (2024), pp. 107-121

"This article provides an original and timely contribution to current cutting-edge methodological debates by discussing the ongoing need to ensure communities in zones which are inaccessible through war, conflict or disease still have a voice and are not side-lined. As seen during Covid-19, traditio ... more

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Radio and Women's Empowerment in Francophone West Africa

Emma Heywood

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2024), xiii, 239 pp.

"This open access book breaks new ground by examining the significant role played by radio in empowering women in three Francophone West African countries: Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso. It examines the representation and perception of key themes broadcast by radio and associated with women's empower ... more

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Journalism as the Fourth Emergency Service: Trauma and Resilience
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Lisa Bradley, Emma Heywood (eds.)

New York et al.: Peter Lang (2024), xviii, 257 pp.

"Journalists have often been considered the "fourth emergency service". They are first on the scene, alongside paramedics, fi re and police, running towards danger rather than away, and providing independent, veritable and crucial information in the public interest. And yet, unlike frontline workers ... more

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Radio as an Empowering Environment: How Does Radio Broadcasting in Mali Represent Women’s “web of Relations”?

Emma Heywood, Beatrice Ivey

Feminist Media Studies, volume 22, issue 5 (2022), pp. 1050-1066

"Does radio programming by Studio Tamani in Mali create an empowering environment for women’s voices? Contributing to existing theoretical discussions on radio and women’s empowerment, this article examines the need to discuss women’s empowerment not from the perspective of women as individual ... more

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Radio and Social Media as a Two-Way Communication Tool in Conflict- and Pandemic-Affected Communities in Burkina Faso

Emma Heywood, Lassané Yaméogo

African Journalism Studies, volume 43, issue 4 (2022), pp. 44-61

"The article draws on the concepts of “felt needs” and “politics of listening” widely used in community development and applies them more broadly to the humanitarian crisis suffered by internally displaced persons in Burkina Faso. It investigates the two-way communication stream between radi ... more

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The significance of ‘loud’ and ‘quiet’ forms of audience participation to community radio in Niger and Mali

Emma Heywood, Beatrice Ivey

Journal of Alternative and Community Media, volume 6, issue 2 (2021), pp. 179-196

"Community radio in Mali and Niger represents important hubs through which organized groups (such as listening clubs or associations) access information and participate in broadcasting through active and formalized channels. Drawing on radio listener focus groups conducted in Mali and Niger between ... more

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Radio Journalism and Women's Empowerment in Niger

Emma Heywood

Journalism Studies, volume 21, issue 10 (2020), pp. 1344-1362

"The significance of radio as a provider of essential news and information in conflict-affected and fragile countries cannot be underestimated nor can its role in contributing to shifts in critical consciousness, changes in behaviour, and raising awareness amongst marginalised groups. This is partic ... more

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Evaluating Academic and Media Nongovernmental Organization Partnerships for Participatory Data Gathering

Emma Heywood, Beatrice Ivey, Sacha Meuter

International Journal of Market Research, volume 63, issue 1 (2020), pp. 43-57

"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 im ... more

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The Contribution of Citizen Views to Understanding Women’s Empowerment as a Process of Change: The Case of Niger

Emma Heywood, Maria Tomlinson

Feminist Media Studies, volume 20, issue 5 (2020), pp. 713-729

"This article investigates citizen’s views on women’s empowerment as a process of change in Niger, the lowest country on the Human Development Index where women suffer widespread gender inequality. It draws on semi-structured interviews with radio and civil society organisation (CSO) representat ... more

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Assessment of Studio Kalangou's Impact on Women's Rights and Empowerment in Niger

Emma Heywood

Fondation Hirondelle;University of Sheffield (2019), 45 pp.

"This study was conducted between April 2018 and July 2019 with the aim of assessing the impact of Studio Kalangou’s radio broadcasts on women’s rights and empowerment in Niger. It comprised: A content analysis of approximately 60 hours of radio programmes broadcast in 2018 by Studio Kalangou in ... Niger; A series of 40 focus groups, 20 conducted before, and 20 after, the programmes were broadcast; Two knowledge exchange workshops in Niger with representatives from the media, civil society organisations, NGOs, and donors, held before and after the programmes were broadcast; A third and final knowledge exchange workshop, on completion of the research [...] Radio remains a main source of information in Niger and, based on the data collected during the study, is accessed primarily by mobile phone. Use of social media to access sources of information, including radio, remains limited. Whilst radio remains the main source of information amongst older focus group respondents, younger participants demonstrate little interest in radio, preferring social media. A generational divide exists between older and younger listeners. Older listeners are adamant about what youth should be doing, what they should like and what they should enjoy listening to. This does not chime with what young people want or are interested in. Female empowerment, according to the broadcasts, is a long-term process and affects women as part of a group. In contrast, according to listeners, empowerment must affect their daily lives and be on a personal, more micro level. Women-focused programmes, whilst necessary and beneficial, may serve to isolate information and themes as they depart from the normal expectations of a male-dominated society. Gender equality, which already emerges in Studio Kalangou’s mainstream broadcasts, needs to be encouraged and extended throughout the schedule to impact all listeners. There is evidence of changes in behaviour amongst listeners as a result of Studio Kalangou broadcasts. Improvements in general and specific awareness of subject matter and themes emerge strongly. There are differences in editorial priorities between what Studio Kalangou offers and what the listeners want." (Pages 4-5) more

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FemmePowermentAfrique: Introducing the Scope and Design of the Project

Emma Heywood

Sheffield, UK: University of Sheffield (2019), 16 pp.

"This working paper defines the scope of the FemmePowermentAfrique project, its significance, its research approach and its intended beneficiaries. This project originated in an impact assessment of radio on women’s rights and empowerment in Niger, yet has broadened to incorporate a series of rela ... more

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The Work of Women’s NGOs on Commercial Radio in the West Bank: Frustrations and Shortcomings

Emma Heywood

Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, volume 16, issue 1 (2018), pp. 59-75

"This article examines the work of women’s non-governmental organizations (NGOs) on West Bank radio as they represent women, a marginalized community, within a patriarchal, traditional and religious society. It also examines the commercial and societal difficulties faced by radio stations in their ... more

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The Routledge Companion to Media and Humanitarian Action

Robin Andersen, Robin Purnaka L. de Silva (eds.)

London: Routledge (2018), xxiv, 572 pp.

"In this moment of unprecedented humanitarian crises, the representations of global disasters are increasingly common media themes around the world. The Routledge Companion to Media and Humanitarian Action explores the interconnections between media, old and new, and the humanitarian challenges that ... more

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European Foreign Conflict Reporting: A Comparative Analysis of Public News Providers

Emma Heywood

London; New York: Routledge (2017), 174 pp.

"This book explores the state of European foreign conflict reporting by public-sector broadcasters, post-Cold war and post-9/11. It compares the values of three television news providers from differing public systems: BBC’s News at 10, Russia’s Vremya and France 2’s 20 Heures. The book examine ... more

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Compassion as a News Value: Comparing French and UK Humanitarian Coverage of the War in Gaza 2014

Emma Heywood

In: The Routledge Companion to Media and Humanitarian Action

Robin Andersen; Robin Purnaka L. de Silva (eds.)

London: Routledge (2017), pp. 211-220

"This chapter examined compassion as a news value in the humanitarian coverage of the 2014 war in Gaza by French and UK broadcasters to show the extent to which victims of foreign conflict can be portrayed with greater and lesser degrees of compassion … The study demonstrates that compassion as a ... more

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Conflict, Trauma and the Media: A Collection of Essays

Guy Hodgson (ed.)

Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2017), vi, 168 pp.

"This collection of essays explores the complicated relationship between the messengers bringing news of catastrophic upheaval and the recipients of that message. It concentrates on the journalists, photographers and film-makers, reflecting not only the motivations behind their work, but also the ps ... more

Journalism as the Fourth Emergency Service: Trauma and Resilience Inspiring Practice

Journalism as the Fourth Emergency Service: Trauma and Resilience
Inspiring Practice