Timothy Allen Peter
ID: UNCST-2019-R001369
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Public Authority and International Devlopment
REFNo: SS92ES
The objective is to produce high-quality, evidence-based research that informs local, national and international policies to promote inclusive growth. Inclusive growth in many places in Africa and elsewhere has proved elusive. Formal governance can be remote, development policies persistently fail and humanitarian aid, at best, assists a minority. CPAID will use innovative approaches to research across disciplines and beyond narrow academic concerns. Our research will draw its understandings from ordinary people, and in particular vulnerable, marginalised and excluded groups and populations. CPAID will take public authority as its conceptual starting point, exploring the ways in which governance of people actually occurs. CPAID used the term public authority to refer to all forms of authority beyond the immediate family unit, from clans, religious institutions, aid agencies, civil social organisations, rebel militia and vigilante groups - to formal and semi-formal mechanisms of government. The public authority lens offers a new foundation for development discourse and hence for policy and interventions. It offers a set of tools for exploring African social and political realities. The lens offers an essential means of gathering evidence about these dynamics as well as the challenges and opportunities associated with them. Our research will be organised around studies of public authority at macro and micro levels to analyse: how public authorities regulate moral orders, deal with crimes (including regulation of sexually-based violence and the management of vigilantes), offer a degree of security and justice (including informal policing, and enforcing land rights); tax and redistribute fiscal resources socially and regionally; use and regulate new media technologies (including social media and mobile money); relate to disease control and health promotion (including tablet distribution for parasitic infections, the consequences of Ebola outbreaks and responses to non-biomedical health matters, such as witchcraft and spirit possession); and provide education and other public services (including allocation of land rights and land access). In all areas, we will be asking how public authorities function or do not function for ordinary people (including minorities and excluded sections of society). Our interest is in customary and neo-customary authorities as well as state ones. Distinguishing between state and customary authorities, as well as understanding how they interact, merge or generate hybrid new forms is an ambitious task that requires more grounded research. The research will also outline the processes by which effective and legitimate forms of public authority – those, which are delivering public goods and are inclusionary in orientation (i.e. do not aggressively exclude or oppress vulnerable groups and individuals) can be strengthened in practice. The research will draw upon the extensive research CPAID scholars have done on these issues, notably on the provision of security and justice in conflict affected and fragile settings .CPAID researchers have also made major contributions to the study of health-related institutions – including public health programmes, disease control and local or customary measures to promote wellbeing and the alleviation of suffering.
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UK |
2017-07-20 |
2020-07-20 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Non-degree Award |
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Carissa Western Strum
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Emergent Empowerment: Assessing the Impacts of Conflict on Gendered Relations, Identities and Opportunities in Acholiland
REFNo: SS58ES
The research project will seek to explore changes in gender roles and dynamics brought about by conflict in Acholiland, Northern Uganda, and to understand how these changes have affected cultural/traditional ideas about masculinity and femininity and the positions/situation of Acholi women and men in post-conflict society. While research has indicated both local level economic gains, and changes in women’s political participation and representation at the national level, this research will seek to explore, holistically, how changes brought about by conflict impact, both positively and negatively, all aspects of Acholi women (and men’s) lives. The project will therefore prioritize Acholi women and men’s own interpretation of their conflict experiences, and of the impact of conflict-triggered changes on their roles and status within their families and communities. Given the significant role played by NGOs/INGOs in implementing Northern Uganda’s peacebuilding and development agenda, the project will also seek to understand how organizations/stakeholders working in this context are addressing and responding to changing gender norms and dynamics, and whether such approaches are in line with women and men’s own interpretation of their experiences and needs.
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Kenya |
2017-07-13 |
2020-07-13 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Degree Award |
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Sauda Nabukenya
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Traditional institutions,Land, chiefs: The foundation of Law and Legal institutions in Uganda
REFNo: SS84ES
To investigate the role of traditional institutions, land,chiefs and in shaping laws and institutions during the colonial period
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Uganda |
2017-07-13 |
2020-07-13 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Degree Award |
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Catherine Hobaiter
ID: UNCST-2019-R001480
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Gestural communication in wild mountain gorillas
REFNo: NS23ES
All great apes use gesture to communicate; however, to date, there remains no study of gestural communication in mountain gorillas - an iconic and highly endangered species. Here I hope to establish the first one.
My research group has published the repertoire of gestures for wild chimpanzees and wild bonobos; here we aim to establish the repertoire of gestures for wild mountain gorillas and compare and contrast these systems of communication.
I will balance data collection across age-sex groups and across behavioural contexts to describe the types of gestures used and the goals for which they are used in mountain gorillas.
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UK |
2017-07-13 |
2020-07-13 |
Natural Sciences |
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Non-degree Award |
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henry bazira
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DETERMINANTS OF MALE INVOLVEMENT IN ANTENATAL CARE IN MUKONO DISTRICT, UGANDA
REFNo: HS81ES
1. TO DESCRIBE THE LEVELS OF MALE PARTICIPATION IN ANTENATAL CARE SERVICES IN MUKONO DISTRICT.
2. TO ASSESS MEN’S ATTITUDES TOWARDS MALE INVOLVEMENT IN ANTENATAL CARE SERVICES IN MUKONO DISTRICT
3. TO ASSESS THE FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH MALE INVOLVEMENT IN ANTENATAL CARE SERVICES IN MUKONO DISTRICT.
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Uganda |
2017-07-13 |
2020-07-13 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
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Degree Award |
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Jennifer Moodley
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Improving timely diagnosis of symptomatic breast and cervical cancer in Sub-Saharan Africa
REFNo: HS60ES
1. Develop and validate a tool to measure community breast and cervical cancer symptom awareness, knowledge and beliefs in Africa;
2. Describe and compare breast and cervical cancer symptom beliefs, knowledge and awareness in rural and urban settings in two countries in SSA-Uganda and SA;
3. Assess the degree to which symptom overlap between breast and cervical cancer and common infectious diseases influence symptom assessment and help-seeking behavior;
4. Explore primary care level provider interpretation and management of breast and cervical cancer signs and symptoms.
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South Africa |
2017-06-30 |
2020-06-30 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
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Non-degree Award |
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Anne Odele
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The meaning, uses and outcomes of functional adult literacy in Uganda
REFNo: SS52ES
The study seeks to describe: \r\n(1) how former literacy participants use the learning from the FAL program in the domains of a) reading, writing and numeracy; and b) their daily livelihoods, and why\r\n(2) the perceived outcomes of applying these practices\r\n(3) the meanings that literacy holds for the participants\r\n
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Uganda |
2017-06-27 |
2020-06-27 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Degree Award |
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Immaculate Tumwebaze
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Dramatically increased schistosomiasis risk in western Uganda crater lakes – disentangling global climate change impacts and other drivers
REFNo: NS20ES
i. To identify lineages and quantify genetic diversities of both intermediate hosts and their schistosomiasis parasites present in Western Uganda crater lakes.
ii. To determine the phylogenetical and biogeographical affinities and dynamics of intermediate host gastropod species and schistosomes in crater lakes along an altitudinal gradient.
iii. To asses the variation in physico-chemical water parameters, long-term climatic factors such as temperature and rainfall, and habitat characteristics potentially driving the presence, distribution and (genetic) diversity of intermediate host snails and parasites at different altitudes.
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Uganda |
2017-06-27 |
2020-06-27 |
Natural Sciences |
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Degree Award |
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REBECCA NANTANDA
ID: UNCST-2019-R001533
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MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIA AMONG HIV-EXPOSED AND UNEXPOSED CHILDREN IN UGANDA: BURDEN, GENOTYPES, RISK AND OUTCOME
REFNo: HS56ES
1.To determine the burden of atypical bacterial pneumonia among HIV-exposed and unexposed children with respiratory illnesses in Mulago hospital.
2.To determine the risk factors for atypical bacterial pneumonia among children with acute respiratory symptoms
3.To determine the outcome of children with atypical pneumonia
4.To describe the relationship between the genotypes of Mycoplasma pneumoniae and resistance to macrolide antibiotics.
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Uganda |
2017-06-21 |
2020-06-21 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
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Non-degree Award |
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Julia Modern Keri
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The disability rights movement in Bunyoro, Uganda: human rights, value, and negotiations of belonging
REFNo: SS68ES
Through an ethnographic study of a Disabled Person’s Organisation (DPO) in Masindi District, Bunyoro, Uganda, to investigate the relationship between human rights and questions about personhood, value and dependence. The research will focus on the way that various actors in the disability movement conceptualise and speak about the types of change that are being created in disabled people’s lives through the movement, and how this affects the changes that actually occur in practice.
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UK |
2017-06-20 |
2020-06-20 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Degree Award |
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