Ragging as an expression of power in a deeply divided society; a qualitative study on students perceptions on the phenomenon of ragging at a Sri Lankan university

• Ayanthi Wickramasinghe ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ayanthi Wickramasinghe, Pia Axemo

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ayanthi.wickramasinghe@kbh.uu.se

  Current address: Department of Women and Children’s Health, MTC-huset, Uppsala, Sweden

  Affiliation International Maternal and Child health unit, Department of Women and Children’s health, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6329-5377

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• Pia Axemo ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ayanthi Wickramasinghe, Pia Axemo

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Department of Women and Children’s Health, MTC-huset, Uppsala, Sweden

  Affiliation International Maternal and Child health unit, Department of Women and Children’s health, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

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• Birgitta Essén,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Department of Women and Children’s Health, MTC-huset, Uppsala, Sweden

  Affiliation International Maternal and Child health unit, Department of Women and Children’s health, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

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• Jill Trenholm

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Department of Women and Children’s Health, MTC-huset, Uppsala, Sweden

  Affiliation International Maternal and Child health unit, Department of Women and Children’s health, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

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