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Sandra Nanyunja Nakityo
ID: UNCST-2026-R024003
Digital Literacy and Displacement: Shaping Inclusive Futures with Refugee Women in Uganda
REFNo: SS5352ES

The overarching aim of this study is to explore how actors, networks, and institutional imaginaries of digital literacy and technology in displacement contexts shape, enable, or constrain refugee women’s aspirations and everyday practices, and how this interplay can inform the pursuit of sustainable digital inclusion in Uganda. The specific objectives are: 1. To examine which actors and networks shape the digital literacy landscape for refugee women in Uganda, and how they influence this landscape. 2. To analyse in what ways policy and institutional documents present digital literacy for refugee women in Uganda. 3. To understand the main perceptions and aspirations of refugee women in Uganda about digital literacy. 4. To investigate how refugee women in Uganda conceptualize and use digital technology in their everyday life (including work). 5. To explore how the interplay between refugee women's aspirations and institutional imaginaries can inform sustainable digital inclusion.
Uganda 2026-06-12 3:51:19 2029-06-12 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
JaiBum Koo
ID: UNCST-2026-R023919
Teacher upskilling through Uganda’s National Teacher Policy: A vertical case study of policy implementation, systemic change, and classroom practice
REFNo: SS5307ES

The purpose of this study is to examine teacher upskilling under Uganda’s National Teacher Policy (NTP) using a vertically integrated, three-level design. The study seeks to understand how the upskilling policy is developed and implemented across national, institutional, and teacher levels.
South Korea 2026-06-12 3:48:26 2029-06-12 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
Apurva Bhatnagar
ID: UNCST-2026-R024225
Evaluating the Effects of StrongMinds Community-Based Group Interpersonal Therapy on Depression and Secondary Outcomes in Uganda: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial
REFNo: SS5286ES

This study aims to evaluate the impact of the StrongMinds IPT-G model on depressive symptoms (primary outcome) and measures related to quality of life, social, economic, and educational outcomes (secondary outcomes).
India 2026-06-12 3:47:18 2029-06-12 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Susan  Nabadda Ndidde
ID: UNCST-2020-R014331
Clinical Performance Evaluation of Novel Rapid Molecular Point-of-Care (POC) Diagnostics for Mpox Virus
REFNo: HS7690ES

To compare performance of the index test results by identified virus clade(s) circulating in-country. To determine the association of the index tests sensitivity results with Ct values (as a proxy for viral load). To determine the diagnostic performance of mpox POC tests (index tests) vs. gold-standard PCR (reference test) on archived lesion specimens Mpox-positive and negative.
Uganda 2026-06-12 3:45:18 2029-06-12 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Perrine Theroude Margaux Colombe
ID: UNCST-2026-R025247
Face Value: Behavioural and Bio-Psychological Monitoring of Great Ape Wellbeing
REFNo: NS1267ES

Primate health: Innovating via state-of-the-art technology to obtain non-invasive and unobtrusive real-time biological measures markers of stress.
This project aims to investigate the relationship between stress-related
behaviours, and changes in facial temperature in captive and wild chimpanzees using infrared thermography.
France 2026-06-12 3:43:28 2029-06-12 Natural Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
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