Padmasai Lakshmi Bhamidipati
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Agency and Policy Change Shaping the Solar Energy Transitions in Uganda
REFNo: SS80ES
The overarching objective of this research is to capture the macro-dynamics and the socio-technical changes affecting the solar energy transitions, through an understanding of agency in institutions and policy changes. The aim is to study the electrification strategy at the national level, and with a specific focus at the rural electrification level - to examine the role, developments and debates in the solar energy sector (both grid and off-grid). Through this, the study will deconstruct the role of decentralized modern energy (such as off-grid solar) in alleviating energy access, the debates/contestations among the electricity institutions, the role of political forces in shaping the energy mix, and what does such a transition mean in a larger socio-economic and political context.
This PhD project will help in a better understanding of the factors that support a transition to sustainable energy system and overall sustainable development in developing countries (which have a very low electrification rates at present). At the same time, the PhD project aims to provide a greater understanding of the role of transnational linkages and stakeholders within a national context, and the development of an innovation system in the solar sector in Uganda (in terms of changes in the local institutional and socio-economic structures, local competence-building and experience-based learning). The development of institutions and technical-economic capacities at a local level will create further market opportunities for private sector intervention in the solar sector.
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India |
2017-09-05 |
2020-09-05 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Degree Award |
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Kavuma Mwanje Arthur
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CORRELATION BETWEEN CD4 CELL COUNTS AND THE IMMUNE STATUS AMONG CRITICALLY ILL HIV NEGATIVE PATIENTS ADMITTED TO INTENSIVE CARE UNITS
REFNo: HS104ES
General objective
To assess the immune status of critically ill HIV negative patients admitted to Ugandan ICUs using CD4 T cell counts as a surrogate marker.
Specific objectives
Primary objectives
i. To determine the CD4 T cell counts among critically ill HIV negative patients admitted to Ugandan ICUs.
ii. To determine the relationship between CD4 T cell counts and a twenty eight day ICU mortality among the critically ill HIV negative patients admitted to the Ugandan ICUs.
Secondary objective
iii. To assess the feasibility of using CD4 T cell counts to predict 24 hour mortality or disease severity as compared to APACHE II score among the critically ill HIV negative patients admitted to Ugandan ICUs
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Uganda |
2017-09-05 |
2020-09-05 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
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Degree Award |
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Jeninah Atwebembeire
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BIOLOGICAL AND PHYSICO-CHEMICAL PROFILE OF SURFACE WATERS DRAINING INTO RIVER RWIZI BASIN, SOUTH WESTERN UGANDA
REFNo: NS8ES
General objective
To determine the biological and physicochemical status of surface waters draining into River Rwizi.
Specific objectives
i. To determine the sources associated with contamination of the river.
ii. To determine the presence of indicator bacteria in streams, channels and sewage effluents draining into river Rwizi along seasonal gradient.
iii. To determine the physical-chemical parameters in streams and channels, sewage effluents draining into river Rwizi along seasonal gradient.
iv. To determine the impact of pollution on the water quality using macrozoobenthos indicators in the river and its streams, in the upstream, midstream and downstream, during seasonal variations in river Rwizi
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Uganda |
2017-08-28 |
2020-08-28 |
Natural Sciences |
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Degree Award |
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Raquel Pereira Costa Filomena
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How infants perceive the world: assessing the current impact of mountain gorilla ecotourism in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (Uganda), through the eyes of the youngsters
REFNo: NS29ES
This project aims to understand the social development of immature individuals within a group and how they react to human presence. Specifically, this study aims to: 1) analyse immature`s behaviour during tourist visits, 2) analyse adult`s role in these interactions and 3) changes in the groups social dynamics. This research will follow that of Muyambi, 2005, who assessed the general tourism impact on the gorillas` behaviour. Hence, the current project may have important and practical applications in gorilla conservation, via for example, guidelines for ecotourism. Such guidelines should focus on minimizing disturbance levels for the animals and, simultaneously, refining tourist education regarding behaviour in front of gorillas, promoting the animal`s typical calm behaviour. This aims to decrease potential risks of conflicts as well as building visitors` sense of responsibility. Such work may also help local communities to develop ecotourism in a more sustainable way.
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Portugal |
2017-08-28 |
2020-08-28 |
Natural Sciences |
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Degree Award |
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David Mafigiri Kaawa
ID: UNCST-2019-R001276
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Assessing the effectiveness of the 'Reaching Every Community using Quality Improvement methods' (REC-QI) approach in strengthening the Routine Immunization system in six districts in Uganda
REFNo: HS109ES
• To develop quantitative and qualitative measures to assess dimensions of the RI system that have been strengthened and where problems persist, identify the reasons for them.
• Describe adaptations to the implementation of REC-QI that enable districts to move along the continuum of “Orient” to “Establish and Strengthen” to “Sustain.”
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Uganda |
2017-08-28 |
2020-08-28 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
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Non-degree Award |
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Ronald Mayanja
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Primary High Risk HPV Testing for Cervical Cancer Screening in a Community Health Fair Setting
REFNo: HS102ES
To pilot the implementation of high-risk self-testing in a community health fair setting with a mobile phone-based results notification to facilitate follow up treatment at a local health facility.
Aim 1: Determine the feasibility of implementing cervical cancer screening at community health fairs in rural Uganda using self-sampled hrHPV testing
Aim 2: Understand rural Ugandan women’s acceptability, barriers and facilitators of self-collected sampling for cervical cancer screening
Aim 3: Assess the ability of Web SMS to improve workforce efficiency and follow up of cervical cancer testing results in community settings.
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Uganda |
2017-08-21 |
2020-08-21 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
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Non-degree Award |
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Hayley Dieckmann
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Stress responses of African lions (Panthera leo) in relation to proximity of ongoing fires and fire scars in Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda
REFNo: NS26ES
To understand stress factors of lions in Queen Elizabeth National Park in order to reduce stressful events and promote coexistence of humans and lions within the park.
To determine a correlation between African lions’ stress level and their proximity to ongoing fires and fire scars within Queen Elizabeth National park.
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USA |
2017-08-16 |
2020-08-16 |
Natural Sciences |
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Non-degree Award |
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Corrie Decker
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Debating Childhood and Maturating in Colonial East Africa
REFNo: SS91ES
Between 1900 and 1960, missionaries, colonial officials, anthropologists, chiefs, elders, educated elites, and cultural nationalists in Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania (at the time British colonial territories) came into conflict over whether or not to eradicate certain African customs governing a child’s maturation into adulthood. Demands to ban African customs are still heard in the international media today. Why were these debates so controversial at the time and why do they continue to invoke intense discord? I argue that these issues sparked such conflict because they dealt with differing opinions about how to manage a child’s maturation into adulthood. I investigate debates about rites of passage, puberty, adolescence, marriage, and definitions of the child culturally and legally in colonial East Africa. Many different viewpoints and approaches informed these debates, but they became polarized around two positions: the protection of the presumed innocent child in the name of universal rights, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, the preservation of cultural practices that fostered the child’s maturation toward normative adulthood. Scholars have pointed out that this struggle between universal human rights and culture was one that played out within the politics of colonialism and neocolonialism (Babatunde 1998; Hodgson 2011). These discourses portrayed the child as either a helpless creature in need of saving or a future productive and reproductive member of society. These debates shifted toward the end of the colonial era (1960s) as African teenagers’ greater independence became a source of anxiety as daunting as African nationalists’ demand for the end of colonialism (Burton and Charton-Bigot 2010; Ivaska 2011). This project spans the former British colonies of Uganda (1894-1962), Kenya (1895-1963), Zanzibar (1890-1963), and Tanganyika (1916-1961). I focus on the colonial era in order to show how East African customs became part of an international intellectual debate about child development and maturation.
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USA |
2017-08-16 |
2020-08-16 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Non-degree Award |
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James Nsereko Roger
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The prevalence and risk factors of symptoms of depression, anxiety and somatic complaints among secondary school students in Kampala, Uganda
REFNo: SS81ES
•To examine the prevalence of symptoms of depression, anxiety and somatic complaints among secondary school students in Kampala.
•To determine the co-morbidity of symptoms of depression, anxiety and somatic complaints among secondary school students in Kampala.
•To determine the association between socio-demographic factors (age, gender, family composition) and symptoms of depression among secondary school students in Kampala.
•To determine the association between socio-demographic factors (age, gender, family composition) and symptoms of anxiety among secondary school students in Kampala.
•To determine the association between socio-demographic factors (age, gender, family composition) and symptoms of somatic complaints among secondary school students in Kampala.
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Uganda |
2017-08-07 |
2020-08-07 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Degree Award |
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Racheal Mugabi Ddungu
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Skills Development, Early School Leaving and Employment in Uganda
REFNo: SS85ES
The following questions will serve as research objectives
1. what proportion of candidate enrolled in skills development programmes found employment?
2. what is the difference betweeen those who and those who did not find employent?
3. Does the tendency to find employment vary by sector?
4. To what extent does the skills development meet the needs of the economy and the labour market?
5. What are te lived realities and experiences of participants in respec to the dynamic relationship between schooling, skills development and employment?
6. What are the stregth, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of skills development programmes in addressing employment?
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Uganda |
2017-08-07 |
2020-08-07 |
Social Science and Humanities |
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Degree Award |
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