Meital Kupfer Tvor
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Representation and Responses: Refugee Voice in Uganda
(Note: this has changed in regards to comments from the MAKSSREC)
REFNo: SS344ES
This research aims to change the narrative on humanitarian communications research by focussing on the feedback of beneficiaries – who are the primary subjects in campaigns and photos. This study will employ a qualitative approach, focusing on content analysis and ethnography through structured/semi-structured interviews, surveys, and content analysis, covering three levels: representation, production, and reception (Dogra, 2009). There will be a focus on semiotics (Barthes, 1977), including photo elicitation techniques (Pink, 2009) for individuals in focus group discussions to provide feedback on INGO campaigns.
Primary evidence will come from work with participants in the Refugee Law Project’s (RLP) Media for Social Change (M4SC) Programme, which works in 11 sites across Uganda, including Kampala and the No White Saviors (NWS) organisation, which is an activist Instagram account working to change narratives about the global South.
Data will be focusing on two parts: beneficiary reaction to how refugees are represented in aid campaigns and their utilisation of social media and technology to amplify their own storytelling.
Secondary evidence will buttress this analysis by supporting the narrow case study of Uganda. To ensure quality and feasibility, academic research selection is limited to peer-reviewed journals. Research on this subject encompasses grey literature, academic literature, artistic works, and social media that primarily covers humanitarian emergencies and development campaigns and their relation to the West. Secondary sources derive from relevant literature, as well as INGO campaigns, websites, and social media accounts. Other visual data will be derived from identified grassroots advocacy groups that work to challenge the INGO dominant narrative.
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Germany |
2019-08-15 |
2022-08-15 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Degree Award |
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Catarina Inverso
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From War to Peace as Conflict goes on: Reinventing the state or ignoring it? Assessing the activities of armed groups and informal cross border networks in the borderlands between DRC, Uganda and South Sudan (working title)
REFNo: SS345ES
The objective is to apply the concept of ‘mobility makes the state’ to the notion of state as a framework to answer a central question: How has displacement become a mechanism of South Sudan’s state-making process?
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Germany |
2019-08-15 |
2022-08-15 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Degree Award |
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James Ditai
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Maternal and Newborn Health Priority Setting Partnership in Uganda
REFNo: HS444ES
Purpose:
To identify the unanswered questions about maternal health and newborn care from mothers, carers and clinical perspectives in Uganda and then prioritize those that mothers, carers and health workers agree are the most important for the research to address.
Specific objectives:
• To work with mothers, caregivers and health workers to identify uncertainties about maternal health and newborn care in rural Uganda
• To agree by consensus on a prioritized list of those uncertainties, for research in Uganda
• To publicize the results of the Maternal and Newborn Health Priority Setting Partnership in Uganda and process
• To share the results with the ministry of health, academic researchers and funding bodies
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Uganda |
2019-08-15 |
2022-08-15 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
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Degree Award |
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Mark Purdon David
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The Sustainability of International Investment Projects in the Forest and Bioenergy Sectors in Developing Countries: A Comparison of Uganda and Tanzania
REFNo: SS323ES
The objective of this research project is to update research into the sustainability and effectiveness of the foreign investment projects in the land-use sector through a comparative research design involving qualitative and quantitative approaches. Led by Mark Purdon, Assistant Professor at the École des sciences de la gestion at the Université du Québec à Montréal (ESG-UQAM), the project will also involve academic researchers and graduate students at Makerere University in Uganda. In particular, the project will involve Dr. Patrick Byakagaba of Makerere University, School of Forestry, Environmental and Geographical Sciences who has been undertaking similar research over recent years. The specific objective is to determine the extent to which foreign investment projects in the land-use sector in Uganda and Tanzania, which were first investigated in 2009, are contributing to sustainable low-carbon development, with special attention to payment issues, household land management and project performance.
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Canada |
2019-08-09 |
2022-08-09 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Non-degree Award |
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Rosemary Nakijoba
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The Inter-relationship between Gender, Child Labour and Disability among War Affected Communities of Northern Uganda
REFNo: SS113ES
Objectives of the Study
The study is guided by a general objective, subdivided into six specific objectives.
General objective
The study intends to explore the relationship between gender, child labour, disability and the well-being of children in war affected communities of Northern Uganda.
Specific Objectives
The study will be guided by the following objectives:
1.To explore participants’ perceptions on the concepts of gender, child labour and disability among war affected communities of Northern Uganda.
2.To document gender differences that exist in child labour in war affected communities of Northern Uganda
3.To document differences in child labour practices that exist between the war affected disabled and non disabled children in communities of Northern Uganda
4.To examine the cultural beliefs and practices on children with disability in war affected communities of Northern Uganda
5.To explore the existing interventions on disability for children in war affected communities of Northern Uganda.
6.To develop an explanatory theory that links gender, child labour, and disability for the well being of children in war affected communities guiding intervention processes
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Uganda |
2019-08-06 |
2022-08-06 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Degree Award |
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Japheth Kwiringira Nkiriyehe
ID: UNCST-2019-R000408
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A Livelihood-Sanitation Nexus: Implications for Sustainable Slum Sanitation in Urban Uganda
REFNo: SS273ES
Main Objective
To explore the role of livelihoods in sustainable slum sanitation in Uganda
Specific Objectives
1. To describe the livelihoods of shared latrine users across three (3) major urban areas in Uganda
2. To relate various slum livelihoods with sanitation demand and supply.
3. To identify which livelihoods play a positive function in maintaining shared slum sanitation
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Uganda |
2019-08-06 |
2022-08-06 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Non-degree Award |
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Daniel Shephard
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Resilient Learners, Teachers, and Education Systems in Uganda: An Exploratory Study
REFNo: SS280ES
There are two overarching research questions in this exploratory study:
1. How do instructors participating in the AVSI-Oxfam program in Palabek, Uganda conceptualize well-being and resilience?
2. How do young people who are currently participating (or may eventually participate) in the AVSI-Oxfam program in Palebek, Uganda conceptualize well-being and resilience?
a) To begin exploratory research about how learners and teachers conceptualize well-being and resilience in contexts of displacement.
b) To learn more about project interventions, especially accelerated education (AE) and teacher education and professional development (TEPD) through key informant interviews and observations.
c) To gain insights about the larger context and operational space in Palabek settlement.
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USA |
2019-08-06 |
2022-08-06 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Non-degree Award |
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Robert Kairania
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TESTING HIV SUSCEPTIBILITY IN FORESKIN TISSUE
REFNo: HS372ES
Study objective: To explore potential determinants of HIV infection in foreskin tissue.
Aim 1: Explore host immune factors that contribute in vitro HIV infection.
Aim 2: Explore microbial factors that contribute in vitro HIV infection.
Aim 3: Explore viral factors that contribute in vitro HIV infection
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Uganda |
2019-08-06 |
2022-08-06 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
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Non-degree Award |
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Matthew Henderson George
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Chimpanzee communication and its function in the regulation of fission-fusion social dynamics
REFNo: NS92ES
- Enhance overall understanding of gestural and vocal communication of East Africa Chimpanzees with a focus on the understudied female sex
- Understand how female chimpanzees use short-distance gestures with their infants and long-distance vocalizations to maintain fission-fusion dynamics
- Which gestural or postural markers are used by females and their infants specifically before joint travel
- What behavioural cues produced by infants and mothers differ prior to successful joint travel of all forms
-How behavioral context affects the pant-hoot structure in female chimpanzees
- How individual life-characteristics differences affect pant-hoot vocalizations
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USA |
2019-08-06 |
2022-08-06 |
Natural Sciences |
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Degree Award |
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Kananura Muhumuza Rornald
ID: UNCST-2019-R000239
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Child health and survival in Central Eastern Uganda
REFNo: HS395ES
The objectives of the study are to: examine maternal and neonatal mortality social and institutional drivers in central eastern Uganda; and establish the role of public authority in shaping maternal and child health in central eastern Uganda.
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Uganda |
2019-08-06 |
2022-08-06 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
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Degree Award |
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