Working Together to Give Children in Tanzania a Better Start PI: Dr Margaret Leighton Early childhood care, development and pre-primary education has brought a researcher from the School of Economics & Finance to partner with Save the Children on an intervention designed and implemented by the Tanzanian charity called Tuwekeze Pamoja (Bringing Together). Tuwekeze Pamoja … Read more
PI: Dr Jaremey McMullin Investigating the disarmament, demobilisation, and reintegration of those who have been involved in war, a researcher from the School of International Relations has been working in Liberia with ex-combatant youth, demobilised soldiers, and conflict-affected youth who are engaged in the commercial motorcycling transport sector there. The research shows how thousands of … Read more
PI: Dr Wilber Sabiiti According to the World Health Organisation’s Global Tuberculosis Report 2017, tuberculosis (TB) is the leading cause of death from infectious disease, with a higher incidence than HIV/AIDS. To tell whether a patient is responding or to test the effectiveness of new TB drugs, one must be able to count the number … Read more
PI: Professor Ifor Samuel Researchers in the School of Physics & Astronomy are exploring how to apply a portable light source for photodynamic therapy (PDT), a technology they have already developed to treat skin cancer, to treat a major neglected tropical disease. In this project, experts in PDT, parasitologists and microbiologists from institutes in Sao … Read more
Pacific Connections PI: Dr Tony Crook The prevalence of violence against women in the Pacific region is among the highest in the world. Countries across the region have identified the social, well-being and economic consequences of gender-based violence and women’s economic and political marginalization. An international research consortium of Department of Social Anthropology with Pacific … Read more
