Dear all,

I wondered if anybody could provide any help. I am currently trying to seek literature for my PhD literature review, my study is looking water, sanitation and hygiene issues for perimenopausal women in low-income countries. Yet, having done a  systematic and thorough search of several different databases with a wide range of search term combinations over the past few months, I cannot come across any literature which directly links to my research. I have established that my research aims are valid and important through what I have been told by women relaying their own experiences, but this knowledge  is not necessarily written down in scholarly texts and is mostly coming to me through word of mouth. Therefore I just wondered whether anyone had any ideas as to what to do as an alternative to a conventional literature review for my thesis to highlight this issue.

I hope you can help and look forward to hearing from you

Best wishes,

Amita

Amita Bhakta BA (Hons), MRes

PhD Student

Water, Engineering and Development Centre

School of Civil and Building Engineering

Sir Frank Gibb Building

Loughborough University

Loughborough

LE11 3TU

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