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Tessa Laing
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Community responses to processes of land acquisition and resource management for conservation in Uganda
REFNo: SS372ES

The objective of this research is to explore the dynamics that enable local land users in areas bordering protected areas across northern Uganda to collectively influence land acquisition and conservation management processes. As highlighted in a number of recent scholarly review articles, insufficient attention has been given to ‘responses from below’ to land acquisition processes (Boras & Franco, 2013; Hall et al, 2015). While scholars have focused on ‘celebrity conservation cases’ in eastern and south-western Uganda such as communities affected by Mount Elgon and Queen Elizabeth National Park, less attention has been paid to community responses to conservation development in northern Uganda and established protected areas such as Kidepo and Murchison national parks. Community – conservation dynamics amongst populations living in close proximity to smaller forest and wildlife reserves such as Otze and Matheniko have received even less scholarly attention. This research aims to contribute toward such gaps, by focusing on responses to land acquisition for conservation ‘from below’ by communities living adjacent to lesser known conservation areas in northern Uganda. Accordingly, the objectives of this research are to: a) Examine how land acquisition processes and resource management for conservation are initiated and evolve in cases in northern Uganda
b) Examine how collective responses emerge; and
c) Understand the effect collective responses have on land acquisition processes, community development, and conservation outcomes in northern Uganda.
Field research will be undertaken amongst communities living adjacent to or near protected areas, not within the protected areas themselves.
New Zealand 2019-11-19 2022-11-19 Social Science and Humanities Degree Award
Jose Saenz
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Helicobacter pylori and chronic dyspepsia in eastern Uganda
REFNo: HS305ES

1) Determine the prevalence of dyspepsia and Helicobacter pylori (Hp) infection among residents in a rural community in Eastern Uganda using non-invasive diagnostic means (questionnaire, fecal Hp antigen testing). 2) Correlate dyspepsia with prevalent symptoms identified from questionnaire and results from fecal Hp antigen testing. 3) Identify additional factors associated with dyspepsia using a thorough medical and dietary history. 4) Assess efficacy of Hp eradication following standard-of-care antibiotic treatment of all participants with active Hp infection. 5) Assess efficacy of empiric omeprazole treatment in participants with chronic dyspepsia who are negative for Hp by fecal Hp antigen testing.
USA 2019-10-31 2022-10-31 Medical and Health Sciences Non-degree Award
Lotte Meinert
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Imagining Gender Futures in Uganda (IMAGENU) Project
REFNo: SS301ES

The overall purpose of this project is to enhance research capacity by generating new knowledge about how changing patterns of gender partnerships relate to livelihood, education, and reproductive and mental health. This will contribute to the development of relevant social gender policies, and create debate in the wider public.

The specific objectives are to explore the following research questions, which constitute Work Packages.

1. How do men and women imagine futures of marriage and child filiation in light of current far reaching changes in patterns of partnership?
2. How are gendered livelihood possibilities affected by changes in partnership and child filiation?
3. How do patterns of gendered reproductive and mental health affect and reflect changing patterns of partnership?

4. How are changing partnership patterns related to education?
Denmark 2019-10-31 2022-10-31 Social Science and Humanities Degree Award
Prem Ramburuth
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Empowerment in the Workplace: Women in Africa
REFNo: SS304ES

Objective of the study

There are several dimensions that highlight the importance of the study. The objective of this study is to facilitate deeper understanding of issues of gender bias in the workplace in a sample of countries in Africa, and in sectors where women do much of the work but receive the lowest levels of pay and the least recognition, which in turn results in financial constraints.

Specific objectives

1. To understand the place and importance of empowerment of women in the workplace.
2. To investigate the range of factors that could act as barriers to women’s inclusion and gender equity.
3. Identify areas for change and inform policy on women’s empowerment in both formal and informal economies.

 Australia 2019-10-31 2022-10-31 Social Science and Humanities Non-degree Award
Dorsa Amir
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Decision-making across cultures
REFNo: SS308ES

The aim of this study is to understand how children learn to make virtuous decisions – that making the right decision-- about resources and how children learn to invest cost and effort in resources that benefit the public community. We plan to determine how these behaviors develop and change with age and how they influence cooperation in children all over the world.
 USA 2019-10-31 2022-10-31 Social Science and Humanities Non-degree Award
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