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Roda Siad
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Exploring the implications of blockchain and other emerging technologies on refugee governance
REFNo: SS1622ES

My research will examine how blockchain and other emerging technologies are conceptualized, deployed, and operationalized within refugee settings. Using Kenya and Uganda as sites of analysis, the thesis will ask the following research questions: 1) How are blockchain and other technologies shaping the governance of refugees? 2) How do refugees engage with blockchain and other emerging technologies in their everyday lives? 3) What is at stake in these technological systems and practices when applied within humanitarian interventions? The specific objectives that follow from these research questions are to: a) assess what can be learned from the deployment of blockchain and other emerging technologies b) examine how refugees understand and frame their engagement with such technologies and c) understand the visions and imaginaries of tech developers and humanitarian organizations and how they define their collaborative work. This research also considers how different actors (tech industry workers, corporate funders, UNHCR staff and refugees) understand, contribute to, and shape the discourse around blockchain and other technologies in humanitarian settings. This research will use several data collection methods based on empirical fieldwork in camp and non-camp settings and discourse analysis to capture the diverse perspectives of tech industry workers, corporate funders, UNHCR innovation staff, camp staff and refugees.
Canada 2023-06-13 8:27:14 2026-06-13 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
Shelley Jones
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A Pandemic Recovery Response: Expanding Opportunities for Young Ugandan Mothers
REFNo: SS1667ES

The purpose of this interdisciplinary research is to co-create, co-implement, and co-evaluate the impacts and perceived outcomes of a holistic intervention for young Ugandan mothers and their children.
Canada 2023-09-27 9:55:35 2026-09-27 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Michio Matsuba Kyle
ID: UNCST-2022-R009027
 Wang Oo Relit Project (WORP) Evaluation Study
REFNo: SS1716ES

1. To determine if youth who participate in the WORP program show improvement on measures of well-being, 2. To monitor the level of engagement of youth in WORP lessons and activities 3. To understand the benefits and challenges associated with the WORP program from the perspective of youth participants.
 Canada 2023-05-02 22:28:11 2026-05-02 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Francispillai Erin
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Assessing freshwater fish response to deforestation-induced warming
REFNo: NS564ES

The broad goal of this project is to understand the effects of deforestation on freshwater fishes. The project will specifically explore the effects of deforestation on the behaviour, ecophysiology, and morphology of fishes by comparing populations of a cyprinid fish that occur both on forested and deforested streams.
 Canada 2023-06-20 12:16:12 2026-06-20 Natural Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
Bonnie Fournier
ID: UNCST-2019-R000250
 The New Wang Oo: Intergenerational Knowledge Transfer in Northern Uganda Using Theatre For Living
REFNo: SS1916ES

Explore collaborative efforts alongside community partnerships to re-establish IG relationships,Identify and articulate community perceptions of IG interaction and initiate collaborative possibilities to generate new forms of IG connection,Create theatre to co-design the new Wang Oo with village Elders and youth,Describe oral traditions and knowledges that were eroded as a result of the civil war and life in the internally displaced persons camps by exploring the impact of the loss of the Wang Oo,
 Canada 2023-10-23 13:06:29 2026-10-23 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Kendra Siekmans
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Readiness Assessment of Uganda’s Health System to deliver vitamin A supplementation as part of the essential package of child health and nutrition interventions
REFNo: HS3153ES

• To identify the potential additional platforms within which VAS can be integrated, especially those that would enable increased coverage of children 12-59 months of age.,• To better understand the motivating factors for caregivers of children U5 to attend routine PHC and ICHD service delivery sessions, as well as reasons for low access to and/or utilization of certain contact points in the health system;,• To understand the strengths and weaknesses of the PHC service delivery system to identify opportunities and support needed to improve the day-to-day uptake of essential child health and nutrition services including VAS; ,• To document the barriers and facilitating factors to high coverage for the service delivery points of VAS and other essential nutrition services;,• To assess the current reach of the health system to children under five years old through the existing routine PHC service delivery platform and ICHD, including a comparison of the proportion of children receiving these services through the different delivery points in the health system;,The overall objective of the Readiness Assessment is to gather the evidence needed to inform a detailed plan for program improvement and health system strengthening to ensure the VAS program can reach more children with their age-appropriate dose using the PHC system contact points. It is designed to assess the relative strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of the platforms within the health system that are currently (or could be, if optimized) contact points for reaching children under 5. The assessment seeks to gather evidence at all levels, including national, district, health facility and community levels.,
 Canada 2023-12-21 21:20:21 2026-12-21 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Laura MacLatchy
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The Ngogo chimpanzees: skeletal correlates of behaviour and life history across the life course
REFNo: NS677ES

To characterize the skeletal structures of chimpanzee bones as they relate to development, locomotion, and aging, in order to understand the evolution, development and health of human and primate skeletons.
Canada 2023-11-29 11:19:46 2026-11-29 Natural Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Creed  Irena Frances
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Assessing cyanobacteria risks in Ugandan crater lakes through historical and contemporary perspectives
REFNo: NS679ES

- To reconstruct phycological time series to establish baseline conditions in the Crater Lake district of western Uganda and determine if (and when) cyanobacteria abundance and toxin-producing potential have changed over time. (Paleolimnology)

2) To examine the historical and societal influence of local (e.g., land use) and regional (e.g., climate) stressors on regulating cyanobacteria abundance and toxin-producing potential. (Paleolimnology)

3) To characterize spatiotemporal variation in cyanobacteria risks and determine the societal influences of local (e.g., land use) and regional (e.g., climate) stressors on regulating cyanobacteria abundance and toxin-producing potential. (Field Survey)

 Canada 2023-12-21 10:18:34 2026-12-21 Natural Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Kelsey Shaw
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In-situ assessment and collection of fecal sludge from non-sewered sanitation containments: Linking demographic, environmental and technical parameters to microbial activity
REFNo: SIR275ES

The overall objective of this PhD project is to better understand and characterize anaerobic degradation pathways in containment of non-sewered sanitation systems (NSS) in resource constrained settings representative of both urban and rural areas. In view of this, the specific objective linked to this research pertaining to this ethics application is to understand the influence of demographic, environmental and technical (DET) data on measurable fecal sludge parameters as well as microbial community composition within NSS containment across variable geographic regions. The proposed project aims to answer the following specific research questions: - What are the effects and variations associated with physical location, use, and operating conditions on wastewater quality and microbial composition? - What is the relationship between location of sanitation system and behaviors associated with operational parameters? - Is there a link between main concentration gradients in containment and spatially analyzable factors (i.e., demographic, environmental and technical)?
Canada 2024-08-22 15:18:53 2027-08-22 Engineering and Technology Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
Simran Prasad
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Male reproductive skew, female codominance and mate choice, and inbreeding avoidance in wild vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus pygerythrus).
REFNo: NS801ES

The purpose of this project is to investigate the relationship between male dominance rank and mating and paternity success, degree of reproductive skew, female codominance and mate choice, and the direction of inbreeding avoidance in a population of vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus pygerythrus) at Lake Nabugabo, Uganda.
Canada 2024-05-07 11:24:53 2027-05-07 Natural Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
Jessica Reemeyer Elizabeth
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Capturing hypoxia avoidance behaviour in wild fish with open-source camera traps
REFNo: NS776ES

The main goal of this project is to document fish behavioural responses to low oxygen in the field using underwater camera traps.
Canada 2024-04-16 8:37:19 2027-04-16 Natural Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
Veronica Groves Kelly
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The response to predation cues from an invasive predator in fish with different histories of interactions or hypoxia tolerances.
REFNo: NS779ES

To understand how abiotic environmental stressors and invasive predator pressure impact the behaviour and physiology of freshwater fishes.
Canada 2024-04-09 18:39:14 2027-04-09 Natural Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
Elizabeth Nyboer Ann
ID: UNCST-2023-R005929
 Using population genetics to inform sustainable aquaculture governance in Lake Victoria, Uganda
REFNo: NS798ES

Specific aims are to: (i) characterize the genetic profiles of Nile Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) in Ugandan fish farms, and (ii) investigate levels of admixture and introgressive hybridization among farmed and wild O. niloticus and endemic Oreochromis species.
Canada 2024-05-07 14:07:15 2027-05-07 Natural Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Elizabeth Nyboer Ann
ID: UNCST-2023-R005929
 Building resilience to climate change in Lake Victoria’s fisheries: the role of women’s fisheries organizations in Uganda.
REFNo: SS3103ES

The broad goal of this project is to understand factors that have led to successful adaptation outcomes for women involved with Womens Fisheries Organizations (WFOs), and to document WFOs’ potential to facilitate long term climate resilience in Uganda’s fisheries. Objective 1 (O1) is to establish indicators of success from the perspective of the women involved in WFOs. Objective 2 (O2) is to document actual livelihood and adaptive outcomes of being involved in WFOs (based on indicators from O1). Objective 3 (O3) is to document (a) qualitative factors relating to social dynamics, governance structure, and power relations and (b) quantitative spatial, infrastructural, ecological, and demographic measures that have contributed to WFO success.
 Canada 2024-08-29 18:38:08 2027-08-29 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Brandon Maser
ID: UNCST-2024-R005142
 Understanding How Policies, Politics, and National Contexts Influence Access to Opioid Medicines in Uganda
REFNo: HS4768ES

1) To elucidate the policy mechanisms that are used by policymakers to govern access to and safe use of opioid medicines in Uganda. 2) To understand how political factors and national context influence the political priority for improving access to opioid medicines within Uganda’s national government’s policy agenda. 3) To understand how political factors and national context influence how governmental, non-governmental, and transnational actors formulate alternative policy options for ensuring access to opioid medicines in Uganda. 4) To understand how policies governing opioid analgesics and those governing OAT have been uniquely influenced by political factors and national contexts during Uganda’s opioid policy reforms.
 Canada 2024-09-10 10:26:35 2027-09-10 Medical and Health Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
Muriel Mac-Seing
ID: UNCST-2024-R005208
 Invisibility of disability in Global South and North: Equitable access to health services in the context of climate change
REFNo: SS3507ES

To strengthen research collaboration and solidarity through co-creation, trust-building, and inclusive co-learning between partners and researchers from Uganda and Canada.,Considering the results of the above objective, to further explore the perspectives of relevant intersectoral actors on the relationships between access to health services for women and men with disabilities, including access to veterinary services for their animals, and climate change in Québec, Canada, and Gulu District, Northern Uganda.,To identify key priority research areas through a scoping review that will synthesise the existing literature and identify research gaps in the relationships between access to health services for PWD, including access to veterinary services for their animals, and climate change.,To explore the perspectives on the relationships between access to health services among women and men with disabilities and climate change in the Global South and North.,
 Canada 2024-12-10 14:56:23 2027-12-10 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
John Doyle-Raso
ID: UNCST-2024-R002244
 Conservation Beyond Boundaries: A History of Wetlands and Knowledge in Uganda
REFNo: SS3214ES

The main purpose is to analyze the history of the implementation of the national wetlands policy of Uganda. I will use this information to augment my PhD dissertation (about the history of the creation of the national wetlands policy of Uganda) and submit the augmented manuscript to a scholarly press for publication as a book.
 Canada 2024-10-21 15:46:31 2027-10-21 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Holly Parsons Jane Emily
ID: UNCST-2024-R002678
 Case Study: Exploring the Effectiveness of Village Health Teams in Uganda's 12 Refugee-Hosting District
REFNo: SS3874ES

The main objective on this research is to drive the narrative on a successful method of transition from humanitarian-funded to government ownership of health systems for refugees in low- and middle-income countries that depends on responsibility-sharing as part of the Global Compact on Refugees. The specific objective is to explore the effectiveness of Village Health Teams (VHTs) in Uganda's 12 refugee-hosting districts in preventing and treating human malaria by identifying key successes and key challenges of this health system, and then exploring how successes can be proliferated and how challenges can be mitigated.
Canada 2025-06-02 17:20:52 2028-06-02 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Degree Award
Christopher Ketola Tobias
ID: UNCST-2022-R009343
 Establishing baselines in fauna diversity, phenology and abundance in key biodiversity hotspots across Uganda through collaborative research and capacity building
REFNo: NS889ES

Our project will sample birds and bats targeting biodiversity hotspots adjacent to and within
protected areas in Uganda. Through multiple visits across the next six years we plan to sample in
distinct biomes such as the North (Moroto, Kidepo valley, Agoro-agu, Morungole, Achwa)
Northeast (Pian Upe, Nakapiprit, Matheniko-Bokora), East (Mount Elgon, Loporokocho, Bukwo),
Northwest (Otzi forest, Ajai wildlife reserve, Luuku forest) southwest (Mgahinga, Bwindi and
around lake Victoria (Buvuma Island, Kalangala, Bugala). These regions are known to support
unique and often locally endemic species. In addition, many of these areas, such as the Kidepo and
the overall Karamoja regions, are notably understudied compared to regions in Western Uganda
 Canada 2025-10-17 18:56:23 2028-10-17 Natural Sciences Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
Muriel Mac-Seing
ID: UNCST-2024-R005208
 The Together Project 2.0: Co-creation and co-evaluation of accessible and gender-sensitive sexual and reproductive health and rights education video series for and with youth in situations of vulnerability in Uganda and Bangladesh
REFNo: SS3812ES

1. To identify SRHR education gaps and needs for youth in situations of vulnerability with limited to no access to SRHR education programs, in Gulu, Uganda, and Dhaka, Bangladesh (Phase 1) 2. To co-develop with youth in situations of vulnerability inclusive SRHR education programs that are contextually adapted to their needs and realities, while considering accessibility, social acceptability, and available SRHR resources (Phase 2). 3. To co-evaluate the relevance of the co-developed SRHR education content and co-learn for improved adaptation through community feedback-seeking and to inform further dissemination strategies tailored to the specific needs and preferences of youth in Gulu, Uganda, and Dhaka, Bangladesh (Phase 3).
Canada 2025-04-30 17:51:45 2028-04-30 Social Science and Humanities Non-Clinical Trial Non-degree Award
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