Yolana Pringle
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Violence and public health in East Africa, c.1950s-1980s
REFNo: SS9ES
This project represents the first historically-grounded analysis of the relationship between violence and public health in mid-twentieth century East Africa. It does so through three case studies, examining the impact of violence on the health of civilian populations and on public health responses during: Kenya’s Mau Mau rebellion (1952-9), the Rwenzururu movement in western Uganda (1960s and 1970s), and civil war in the Luwero Triangle (1982-6). The project will draw from archival material in Uganda’s National and District archives, the Kenya National Archives, and international organisations like the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), UNICEF, and the World Health Organization (WHO).\r\n\r\nThe project's research objectives / questions are to determine:\r\n- To what extent did public health priorities shift during periods of collective and interpersonal violence?\r\n- How did public health officials and international organisations respond to problems of:\r\n - Infectious and communicable diseases\r\n - Water and sanitation\r\n - Nutritional diseases\r\n - Physical and psychological trauma\r\n - Access to healthcare\r\n- Who has been responsible for health during periods of collective and interpersonal violence?\r\n\r\nThrough these research questions, the project aims:\r\n- To broaden our understanding about the operation of public health in sub-Saharan Africa in the past\r\n- To shed new light on the dynamics of violence in East Africa since the 1950s\r\n- To extend our understanding of the emergence of violence as a global public health priority, and the role of East Africa within this\r\n\r\nA full research proposal is attached to this application.
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UK |
2016-08-24 |
2019-08-24 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Degree Award |
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Michael Harris
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Examining the costs and benefits of sanitation infrastructure and access and associated decision-making frameworks within Kampala, Uganda
REFNo: SIR4ES
The purpose of this study is to examine the costs and benefits of improved sanitation facilities, such as flush toilets, which are shared among multiple households compared to improved sanitation facilities private to a single household. Within this purpose, I will investigate the relevance of distinguishing between shared and private sanitation from local household perspectives, landlord perspectives, and decision-making or planning perspectives. The costs and benefits associated with shared and private sanitation will also be explored to further understand the motivations underlying the stated relevance of sanitation access level within low-income settlements of Kampala, Uganda. Within the study, two underlying research questions will help define future research studies and highlight locally important aspects of sanitation planning and household choices: (1) Which key factors drive the cost-benefit differences between shared and private sanitation options? And (2) how can data availability issues be overcome to develop relevant and valid cost and benefit estimations for Kampala, Uganda?\r\n\r\nThe overarching goal of this study is to evaluate the costs and benefits of shared versus private improved sanitation infrastructure within the setting of Kampala, Uganda. Under this goal, we have a number of study objectives, where we hope to improve understanding both for academic advancement and local knowledge advancement.  \r\n\r\nThese objectives are:\r\n - identify the sanitation facility options from multiple stakeholder viewpoints – tenants, landlords, sanitation experts;\r\n - review proposed cost-benefit framework and categories within the local context;\r\n - consolidate and review secondary-data on shared and private sanitation within Kampala slums;\r\n - evaluate the potential benefit-transfer validity both for local secondary data as well as foreign study data; and\r\n - evaluate the validity of benefit-estimation methods, including hedonic regression analysis, contingent valuation survey, and discrete choice experiment, within the local context to potentially replace or supplement benefit-transfer values.\r\n\r\nThese objectives cover multiple important aspects of the sanitation and potentially broader development field. Currently, cost-benefit analyses are an important part of the United Sates’ and many developed-countries’ policy-evaluation processes. However, the application of this method to decisions in developing countries is less common. When cost-benefit analyses have been conducted on sanitation policies or projects in developing countries, the focus has been on extreme shifts, such as moving households from open defecation to a private toilet and septic tank, or analyses have relied on crude data or transfers of value from other settings with limited validation. This study will review the validity of such value estimation approaches within Kampala and seek to understand the potential relevance of cost-benefit analyses to more marginal decisions, specifically households transitioning to shared versus private sanitation.
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USA |
2016-07-01 |
2019-07-01 |
Engineering and Technology |
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Degree Award |
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IRENE AHEISIBWE
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Learning Strategies, Core Self-Evaluations and Achievement Goal Orientations among Prisoners on Formal and Vocational Training in Uganda
REFNo: SS5ES
• To explore learning strategies used by prisoners on formal and vocational training in Uganda\r\n• Assess demographic variations in achievement goal orientations among prisoners on formal and vocational training in Uganda \r\n• Examine the relationship between learning strategies and achievement goal orientations among prisoners on formal and vocational training in Uganda \r\n• Establish the association between learning strategies and core-self evaluations among prisoners on formal and vocational training in Uganda\r\n• Examine the association between core-self evaluations and achievement goal orientations among prisoners on formal and vocational training in Uganda \r\n• Examine the moderating effect of core self-evaluations on the relationship between learning strategies and achievement goal orientations among prisoners on formal and vocational training in Uganda \r\n
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Uganda |
2016-07-01 |
2019-07-01 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Degree Award |
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Eunice Akullo
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Exploring the Integration of Children born in Captivity to LRA abducted females in Post conflict areas affected by the LRA war, Uganda
REFNo: SS7ES
I. To explore integration as a process and the issues affecting it \r\n\r\nII. To examine the response of Transitional Justice to children as a war-affected category
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Uganda |
2016-07-01 |
2019-07-01 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Degree Award |
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Kerry Holden Louise
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The Promise of Science: Deliberating on health, biomedicine and democracy in the Ugandan parliament
REFNo: SS8ES
The proposed research seeks to examine whether, how and in what ways scientific capacity building in the Ugandan parliament and supporting offices and organisations improves political deliberation using health-related, biomedical and scientific knowledge.
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UK |
2016-07-01 |
2019-07-01 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Non-degree Award |
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Nele Jensen
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What matters, where and how – evidence-informed policy networks and the making of knowledge in global health
REFNo: SSH2ES
With the WHO as an early and influential proponent, evidence-based/-informed health policy approaches have become something of a shibboleth, separating the good from the bad in global health decision-making and deemed indispensable to improving health especially in low-income countries. This research project traces the emergence and transformations of evidence-for-policy approaches at the WHO; and explores how evidence-informed policy is currently practiced through the WHO’s prime evidence-for-policy mechanism, the Evidence-informed Policy Network (EVIPNet).\r\nThe Uganda EVIPNet country ‘node’, run by the Regional East Africa Community Health (REACH) Policy Initiative, counts among the most active and successful evidence-to-policy initiatives on the continent (Ongolo-Zogo et al. 2014; WHO 2016). Using EVIPNet/REACH Uganda as an empirical case study, this component of my research project examines some the practices, promises and challenges of evidence-based policy in Uganda.\r\n
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Germany |
2016-06-01 |
2019-06-01 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Degree Award |
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Mwesigwa Collins K
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Testing Feb 12 RMG
REFNo: ICS2ES
To Test trhe RMGt Application June 18th
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Uganda |
2016-06-01 |
2019-06-01 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Degree Award |
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