Rebecca Rumbul

Rebecca Rumbul

Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
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Experience

Education

Licenses & Certifications

  • ISEB Data Protection Practitioner

    BCS

Volunteer Experience

  • Consultant

    NWADO Cameroon

    - 4 months

    Economic Empowerment

    Research and development consultant to umbrella NGO in Bamenda Cameroon. Sponsored by Wales for Africa programme.

Publications

  • Who Benefits From Civic Technology? Demographic and public attitudes research into the users of civic technology

    mySociety

    mySociety’s longterm mission is to understand the impacts of civic technologies. But before they can be fully examined, we need better provision of the baseline facts.

    This research seeks to begin at the beginning, asking the most basic questions about who actually uses civic technology and why. Gathering data from civic technology groups from around the world, it shows the variations in usage of civic tech across four core countries (US, UK, Kenya and South Africa), and records the…

    mySociety’s longterm mission is to understand the impacts of civic technologies. But before they can be fully examined, we need better provision of the baseline facts.

    This research seeks to begin at the beginning, asking the most basic questions about who actually uses civic technology and why. Gathering data from civic technology groups from around the world, it shows the variations in usage of civic tech across four core countries (US, UK, Kenya and South Africa), and records the attitudes of users towards the platforms they are using.

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  • Gender Inequality in Democratic Participation: Examining Oral Evidence to the National Assembly for Wales

    Politics, Wiley

    Women's presence in politics has been much scrutinised, with emphasis primarily on electoral politics. There has been less scrutiny of those contributing to politics in a non-electoral capacity and the characteristics of such groups. The fledgling Welsh legislature has demonstrated high electoral engagement of women, and this article asks whether this electoral gender balance is mirrored in non-electoral engagement with the wider demos. The empirical evidence presented demonstrates that the…

    Women's presence in politics has been much scrutinised, with emphasis primarily on electoral politics. There has been less scrutiny of those contributing to politics in a non-electoral capacity and the characteristics of such groups. The fledgling Welsh legislature has demonstrated high electoral engagement of women, and this article asks whether this electoral gender balance is mirrored in non-electoral engagement with the wider demos. The empirical evidence presented demonstrates that the representation of women in elected positions is not mirrored in the representation of women in the provision of oral evidence. This poses legitimate questions concerning the quality of Welsh democratic engagement.

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  • Critical friend or absent partner? Institutional and organisational barriers to the development of regional civil society

    European Urban and Regional Studies (Sage)

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  • Structurally Excluded? Structural Embeddedness and Civil Society Competition for Funding

    Journal of Civil Society 9 (4), 341-360 (Taylor & Francis)

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  • The Scrutiny Capacity of Civil Society in Wales

    The UK's Changing Union Project

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  • Wales: 40 Years of EU Membership

    Journal of Contemporary European Research

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Honors & Awards

  • Churchill Fellow 2015

    Winston Churchill Memorial Trust

Languages

  • French

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