This presentation was delivered by the Pleasure Project to a workshop at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine on improving the use of research in policy and practice.
3. We aim to please Our approach Building bridges, walking a thin line The Pleasure Project Sex and pleasure industry Public health practice Research & academia Public health/ development sector
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5. The ins and outs Results chain analysis The Global Mapping of Pleasure Inputs unpaid time, money (£4,500), photo Research (£300), photo shoot (all volunteer), contacts/networking, publicity; conference abstracts Outputs publication; launch at AIDS conference -- speakers drawn from GM; postcards; banners; poster presentation Outcomes media coverage; blogs; more awareness of the work of practitioners profiled in the GM worldwide; 15,000+ downloads from web; email queries; enthusiastic feedback Impact plan to do impact assessment to determine impact on practitioners’ work and on support/funding/work of those profiled in the case studies
Our aims more than just one module discussion on pleasure within larger programmes that are mostly sex-negative objectives/outcomes must include understanding of the ‘how to’ of pleasurable safer sex
Our overall strategy and approach, and obstacles to this approach in the form of people’s preconceptions We bridge different worlds, walk a thin line between health and sex industry Others’ preconceptions of our work Charitable status rejected, emails spammed
Knew we wouldn’t be taken seriously by some … so Lancet We use WHO definition of sexual health Try to be practical = influence practitioners, but also assist them. Ways we communicate w/dift audiences, but also indication of the ways they support our work “ focus in particular on the nature of your research evidence and how this affects the level of success of their influencing efforts (issue, discipline, type of evidence, level of contestation/popularity/neglect).” Many practitioners we meet are already convinced of the need to integrate pleasure, but they don’t know how to do it. How we work to influence opinion makers in all these worlds.
Preparing for this conference has made us self-reflective and self-critical – did the survey Thinking about the results of each of our projects We’re in the process of formalising our org and struggling with it – guerrilla girls or and NGO or a big corporate entity.
9 month period, though in operation since 2004 Since official launch of GM the number of times each page has been accessed. useful in determining the number of times pages are viewed by visitors and the general amount of traffic on the site. Page views represent each time a single page is accessed, whereas hits can represent multiple items (images, charts, plug-ins) accessed within a single page view. Hits=464,000
UK, Vietnam, USA, Madagascar, Malawi, Canada, Thailand and Mekong sub region, Turkey, DRC (humanitarian worker)
Self-policing
Really useful in helping us articulate the impact of what we’re doing