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KYOGABIRWE ROSSETTE
ID: UNCST-2024-R016174
Elderly Care, Resilience, and Psychological Well-being among Elderly Nuns in the Mbarara Archdiocese, Western.
REFNo: SS3747ES

1. To assess the suitability of the infrastructural and material facilities available to elderly nuns in the Archdiocese of Mbarara.
2. To examine the healthcare services provided to elderly nuns.
3. To evaluate the link between social care and psychological well-being.
4. To explore the extent to which spiritual care sustains resilience among elderly nuns.

Uganda 2025-05-16 10:31:49 2028-05-16 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
Deborah Manyiraho
ID: UNCST-2024-R016325
Enhancing Education Service Quality through the Deans’ Managerial Competencies amidst Organizational Politics in Ugandan Public Universities
REFNo: SS3735ES

1. To assess the extent to which the study variables exist in the faculties of education in public universities in Uganda.
2. To establish the influence of deans managerial competencies on level of service quality in faculties of education.
3. To establish the moderation effect of organizational politics on the relationship between the dean’s managerial competencies and service quality.
4. To examine the challenges faced by faculty deans in enhancing education service quality amidst organizational politics.

Uganda 2025-05-16 10:30:11 2028-05-16 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
Sarah Nambowa
ID: UNCST-2024-R002219
EXPERIENCES, SUPPORT NEEDED, CO-DESIGNING AND PILOT TESTING A CAREGIVER SUPPORT GUIDE FOR REDUCING BURDEN AMONG CAREGIVERS OF CHILDREN WITH EPILEPSY IN ISINGIRO DISTRICT, SOUTHWESTERN UGANDA
REFNo: HS5729ES

1.To explore the experiences and support needed to reduce caregiver burden among caregivers of children with epilepsy in Isingiro district, southwestern Uganda.
2.To co-design a caregiver support guide for reducing caregiver burden among caregivers of children with epilepsy in Isingiro district, southwestern Uganda
3.To pilot-test a caregiver support guide among caregivers for children with epilepsy in Isingiro district, southwestern Uganda.

Uganda 2025-05-16 10:28:56 2028-05-16 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Sam Ejibua Anguzu
ID: UNCST-2024-R001968
Scaling Refugee Teacher National Inclusion Models for Enhanced Agency and Well-being (resubmitted)
REFNo: SS3760ES

The overall objective of this research is to generate and mobilise evidence about how to effectively scale national, regional and global models of national inclusion of refugee teachers in such a way that they enhance refugee teachers’ agency and well-being. The additional specific objectives are to: 1. Generate knowledge about how models of refugee teacher inclusion can be sustainably and cost-effectively scaled in a way that maximises refugee teachers’ agency and well-being and promotes gender equality and inclusion in Chad, Uganda and Zambia. 2. Strengthen the capacity of school leaders, and provincial and national ministries of education stakeholders to prioritise refugee teacher agency and well-being when implementing national refugee teacher inclusion policies and programmes. 3. Mobilise evidence (through the study outputs) focused on how to integrate refugee teachers in a way that prioritises enhancing refugee teacher agency and well-being as well as gender equality and inclusion, particularly in the lead-up to and during the next Global Refugee Forum in 2027
Uganda 2025-05-16 10:27:07 2028-05-16 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
GODFREY MAKOHA
ID: UNCST-2025-R017345
Exploring home-brewed alcohol production among South Sudanese refugees and surrounding host communities in Bidibidi: A livelihoods perspective
REFNo: SS3723ES

To explore the socioeconomic and public health implications of home-brewed alcohol production among refugees and the surrounding host communities in the Bidibidi refugee settlement in northern Uganda.
To document the experiences of home-brewed alcohol production among South Sudanese refugees and host communities living in the Bidibidi refugee settlement.

To explore mechanisms of addressing home-brewed alcohol production and its associated impact among refugee communities in Bidibidi while protecting producers' livelihood needs.

Uganda 2025-05-16 10:26:09 2028-05-16 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
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