Varsha Ashok
ID: UNCST-2026-R025166
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Inspiring Careers in the Agrifood Sector through Career Talks and Human-Centered Approaches
REFNo: SS5457ES
This study seeks to generate rigorous evidence to inform the design and potential scale-up of career guidance interventions for O-Level and Agricultural Technical and Vocational Education and Training (ATVET) students in Uganda’s agrifood sector.
The broader project involves designing and piloting two modalities of career talks video-based and in-person using a human-centered and iterative approach. Evidence generated through the research phases will guide refinement and assess feasibility for integration into Uganda’s career guidance systems.
3.2 Research Objectives (Evidence-Generating)
The research component of the study has five core objectives:
To assess baseline perceptions, aspirations, and knowledge gaps among O-Level and TVET students regarding careers in Uganda’s agrifood sector.
To identify key design features (content, delivery style, messenger characteristics, and format) that make career talks engaging, culturally relevant, and gender-sensitive for different student segments.
To compare the effectiveness of in-person versus video-delivered career talks in influencing students’ career knowledge, perceptions, and intentions toward agrifood careers.
To examine factors affecting the acceptability and feasibility of implementing career talks within school and TVET institutional contexts.
To generate evidence-based recommendations for scalable career guidance interventions aligned with Uganda’s education and youth employment systems.
3.3 Project (Implementation) Objectives
The following objectives relate to intervention development and implementation rather than evidence generation:
To co-create career talk content with students, teachers, and agrifood professionals using a human-centered design approach.
To recruit and brief role models representing selected personas for prototype development and piloting.
To develop and refine prototype career talks through iterative stakeholder testing.
To prepare career talk formats for potential integration into national career guidance structures.
These project objectives provide the foundation for the research but are not themselves evaluative outcomes.
3.4 Research Questions
What are the prevailing perceptions, aspirations, and misconceptions about agrifood careers among O-Level and TVET students in Uganda?
What design elements (content, messenger, format, delivery mode) make career talks engaging and credible for students across contexts?
How do in-person and video-delivered career talks differ in their influence on students’ knowledge, perceptions, and stated career intentions?
What institutional, logistical, and contextual factors influence the acceptability and feasibility of delivering career talks in schools and TVET institutions?
What implications do the findings have for scalable, policy-aligned career guidance interventions in Uganda?
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India |
2026-06-25 22:48:40 |
2029-06-25 |
Social Science and Humanities |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Non-degree Award |
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Asiimwe Shane Ian
ID: UNCST-2024-R002876
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Postpartum urinary incontinence among mothers in Kampala, Uganda: Prevalence, factors associated, lived experiences and predictors of persistence of incontinence.
REFNo: HS7886ES
4. To explore other pelvic floor dysfunctions among women with postpartum urinary incontinence in Kampala, Uganda (Sub-study IV). ,2. To establish the prevalence and the predictors of persistence of postpartum urinary incontinence among women in Kampala, Uganda (Sub study II).,2. To describe the lived experiences of women with postpartum urinary incontinence in Kampala, Uganda (Sub study II),1. To determine the prevalence and factors associated with postpartum urinary incontinence among women in Kampala, Uganda (Sub study I) ,To determine prevalence and factors associated with postpartum urinary incontinence, describe the lived experiences of affected women and establish predictors of persistence of urinary incontinence among women who have had child birth in Kampala Uganda.,
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Uganda |
2026-06-25 22:46:06 |
2029-06-25 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Degree Award |
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Pius Mukisa Not applicable
ID:
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Lot Quality Assurance Sampling Based Surveillance of Antibiotic Use and Resistance; Stakeholder perspectives, Feasibility and Prediction of Future Resistance Risk.
REFNo: HS7718ES
1. To examine the influence of stakeholder positions, interests, incentives and power on antibiotic use (ABU) surveillance in Uganda using a political economy lens.
2. To examine the influence of stakeholder positions, interests, incentives and power on antibiotic resistance (ABR) surveillance in Uganda using a political economy lens.
3. To evaluate the acceptability, adoption, appropriateness feasibility and sustainability of lot quality assurance sampling (LQAS) based surveillance of antibiotic resistance (ABR) in Uganda
4. To determine the cost of implementing lot quality assurance sampling (LQAS) based surveillance of antibiotic resistance (ABR) at district level in Uganda.
5. To predict the future risk of developing resistance among stored extended spectrum beta lactamase producing Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates through exposure to laboratory induced selection pressures.
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Uganda |
2026-06-25 22:43:19 |
2029-06-25 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Degree Award |
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Cristina Reverzani
ID: UNCST-2023-R008154
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Vitamin D supplementation among pregnant women in Uganda for the prevention of adverse obstetric outcomes: a randomized controlled trial
REFNo: HS7794ES
The objective of this trial is to investigate if vitamin D supplementation among pregnant women in Uganda prevents adverse maternal and foetal outcomes, with special emphasis on preeclampsia.
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Italy |
2026-06-25 22:39:41 |
2029-06-25 |
Medical and Health Sciences |
Clinical Trial |
Non-degree Award |
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Naomi Nabami
ID: UNCST-2025-R018998
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Women vendors: A history of female commercial activities across the Uganda-Congo border during the 20th century.
REFNo: SS4964ES
The first objective of this project is to contribute to women’s empowerment in the subregion by looking at their historical trajectory. It will also allow for historicizing ICBT between the DRC and Uganda, recentering female agency, and bringing in the Congolese perspective. The project fills in an important blank spot in our historical understanding of the Uganda-Congo border’s economic development by connecting the precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial contexts in which this trade took place. By recentering the overlooked role of women as commercial actors throughout the history of ICBT, the project investigates how trade connections evolved in times of war and forced displacement, but also in pre-conflict decades. This will result in a dissertation that focuses on the 20th century to the present.
Here are the specific objectives of the research:
RO1 – Historicizing ICBT between the DRC and Uganda: According to Titeca (2009), informal trade activities between DRC and Uganda must be understood through the lens of a complex history that includes ethnic interconnections and refugee fluxes. Yet they also build on historical relations and exchanges that predate the context of conflict or the Structural Adjustment Programs. The project fills in an important blank spot in our historical understanding of this border’s economic development by connecting the precolonial, colonial and postcolonial contexts in which this trade took place. By recentering the overlooked role of women as commercial actors throughout the history of ICBT, the project investigates how trade connections evolved in times of war and forced displacement, but also in pre-conflict decades. This will result in a dissertation that focuses on the period 1850 to present.
RO2 – Recentering female agency: Public discourse about the border area under study, particularly the Congolese side, often portrays women as mere victims of a conflict-prone context. While sexual violence is indeed used as a weapon of war in this region, with cases dating back to colonial abuses (see Mertens 2023), it is crucial to also pay attention to the ways in which these women have shaped their livelihoods, generated forms of economic autonomy, and evaded male control (see for example Obbo 1980, MacGaffey 1988). Because of its informal character, ICBT generates specific regulatory dynamics, which not only require negotiation with state officials, but also with the broader population (see Titeca 2012). However, we know very little about the ways in which women have navigated this commercial ecosystem. Therefore, their agency is the starting point of this research project (see Thomas 2016). By applying an interdisciplinary approach and using a variety of sources, the project tackles the methodological challenges that have hitherto played a role in the overlooking of Central African female histories.
RO3 – Bringing in the Congolese perspective :Informal export from Uganda to the DRC continues to grow rapidly, with the DRC making up 49,4% of Uganda’s total informal exports in 2018, in comparison to 27,1% in 2010 (Titeca 2020: 3). While this project does not have the ambition to add quantitative data from the Congolese side to the debate, it is innovative in its historical attention to the activities, experiences and livelihoods of Congolese female experiences in this border area. The informality of their activities and the lack of control over mobility was a general source of distress for the colonial government, especially in border areas (see for example Mathys forthcoming). Recent doctoral research by Aurélie Bouvart (2024) even suggests that Congolese women who were brought to court in the Belgian Congo were mostly convicted for “crimes” related to unauthorized mobility. This project, therefore, contributes a critical new perspective by foregrounding the agency of Congolese women and by highlighting the historical continuities in their strategies for navigating both economic and social landscapes across the Congolese-Ugandan border.
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Democratic Republic of Congo |
2026-06-25 22:37:37 |
2029-06-25 |
Social Science and Humanities |
Non-Clinical Trial |
Degree Award |
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