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Invisible in Plain Sight? Grandfathers Caring for Orphaned Grandchildren in Rural Malawi (2023)
Journal Article
Lazaro, M. C., Walker, L., & Robson, E. (in press). Invisible in Plain Sight? Grandfathers Caring for Orphaned Grandchildren in Rural Malawi. African Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/00020184.2023.2212616

Millions of orphans, created by parental deaths due to the HIV/AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa, live with, and are cared for, by grandparents. Little research has considered how grandparents and, in particular, grandfathers, are caring for orphan... Read More about Invisible in Plain Sight? Grandfathers Caring for Orphaned Grandchildren in Rural Malawi.

Ethical Principles, Social Harm and the Economic Relations of Research: Negotiating Ethics Committee Requirements and Community Expectations in Ethnographic Research in Rural Malawi (2022)
Journal Article
Ansell, N., Mwathunga, E., Hajdu, F., Robson, E., Hlabana, T., van Blerk, L., & Hemsteede, R. (2022). Ethical Principles, Social Harm and the Economic Relations of Research: Negotiating Ethics Committee Requirements and Community Expectations in Ethnographic Research in Rural Malawi. Qualitative Inquiry, https://doi.org/10.1177/10778004221124631

Conventional research ethics focus on avoidance of harm to individual participants through measures to ensure informed consent. In long-term ethnographic research projects involving multiple actors, however, a wider concept of harm is needed. We appl... Read More about Ethical Principles, Social Harm and the Economic Relations of Research: Negotiating Ethics Committee Requirements and Community Expectations in Ethnographic Research in Rural Malawi.

Mobile phone use and the welfare of community health nurses in Ghana: An analysis of unintended costs (2021)
Journal Article
Robson, E., Hampshire, K., Abane, A., Kasim, A., Owusu, S., & Mariwah, S. (2021). Mobile phone use and the welfare of community health nurses in Ghana: An analysis of unintended costs. World Development Perspectives, 23, Article 100317. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wdp.2021.100317

The use of mobile phones is fast transforming the healthcare delivery landscape in Ghana. A substantial number of health facilities are now dependent on mobile phones to facilitate their work. Evidence of the use of mobile phones in Ghana's healthcar... Read More about Mobile phone use and the welfare of community health nurses in Ghana: An analysis of unintended costs.

Informal mhealth at scale in Africa : opportunities and challenges (2021)
Journal Article
Hampshire, K., Mwase-Vuma, T., Alemu, K., Abane, A., Munthali, A., Awoke, T., …Kasim, A. S. (2021). Informal mhealth at scale in Africa : opportunities and challenges. World Development, 140, Article 105257. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105257

© 2020 The extraordinary global growth of digital connectivity has generated optimism that mobile technologies can help overcome infrastructural barriers to development, with ‘mobile health’ (mhealth) being a key component of this. However, while ‘fo... Read More about Informal mhealth at scale in Africa : opportunities and challenges.

Formalising ‘informal’ mHealth in Ghana: Opportunities and challenges for Universal Health Coverage (UHC) (2021)
Journal Article
Mariwah, S., Machistey Abane, A., Asiedu Owusu, S., Kasim, A., Robson, E., Castelli, M., & Hampshire, K. (in press). Formalising ‘informal’ mHealth in Ghana: Opportunities and challenges for Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Global Public Health, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2021.1874467

While mobile phones promise to be an important tool for bridging the healthcare gaps in resource-poor areas in developing countries, scalability and sustainability of mobile phones for health (mhealth) interventions still remain a major challenge. Me... Read More about Formalising ‘informal’ mHealth in Ghana: Opportunities and challenges for Universal Health Coverage (UHC).

Household waste management in a South African township (2019)
Thesis
Pewa, M. K. P. (2019). Household waste management in a South African township. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4222743

South Africa emerged from apartheid in 1994 as a nation divided by race and class. The apartheid laws enforced separate development, which disadvantaged the black African population; especially the Xhosa people in rural Eastern Cape and the Zulu peop... Read More about Household waste management in a South African township.

Physical and virtual mobility for youth employment in Malawi: Reflections on findings from two research projects (2019)
Book Chapter
Robson, E., Porter, G., Munthali, A., & Hampshire, K. (2019). Physical and virtual mobility for youth employment in Malawi: Reflections on findings from two research projects. In K. Roelen, R. Morgan, & Y. Tafere (Eds.), Putting Children First: New Frontiers in the Fight Against Child Poverty in Africa (267–286). Stuttgart: Ibidem

Book blurb: Despite important strides in the fight against poverty in the past two decades, child poverty remains widespread and persistent, particularly in Africa. Poverty in all its dimensions is detrimental for early childhood development and ofte... Read More about Physical and virtual mobility for youth employment in Malawi: Reflections on findings from two research projects.

Mobile phones, gender, and female empowerment in sub-Saharan Africa: studies with African youth (2019)
Journal Article
Porter, G., Hampshire, K., Abane, A., Munthali, A., Robson, E., De Lannoy, A., …Owusu, S. (2020). Mobile phones, gender, and female empowerment in sub-Saharan Africa: studies with African youth. Information Technology for Development, 26(1), 180-193. https://doi.org/10.1080/02681102.2019.1622500

© 2019 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Data from qualitative and survey research with young people in 24 locations (urban and rural) across Ghana, Malawi, and South Africa expose the complex interp... Read More about Mobile phones, gender, and female empowerment in sub-Saharan Africa: studies with African youth.

Caregiving children in Malawi : children's work within families affected by illness and disability (2019)
Thesis
Kaparounaki, K. (2019). Caregiving children in Malawi : children's work within families affected by illness and disability. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4221903

Chronic illness and disability can result in children caring for sick parents, younger siblings or grandparents. This PhD thesis examines children’s caring responsibilities in rural and urban areas in Malawi. It analyses the emotional aspects of care... Read More about Caregiving children in Malawi : children's work within families affected by illness and disability.

Connecting with home, keeping in touch: Physical and virtual mobility across stretched families in sub-Saharan Africa (2018)
Journal Article
Porter, G., Hampshire, K., Abane, A., Munthali, A., Robson, E., Tanle, A., …Bango, A. (2018). Connecting with home, keeping in touch: Physical and virtual mobility across stretched families in sub-Saharan Africa. Africa, 88(2), 404-424. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0001972017000973

There is a long history of migration among low-income families in sub-Saharan Africa, in which (usually young, often male) members leave home to seek their fortune in what are perceived to be more favourable locations. While the physical and virtual... Read More about Connecting with home, keeping in touch: Physical and virtual mobility across stretched families in sub-Saharan Africa.

The historical geographies of European childhood in colonial Africa : children's lives in Nyasaland 1889-1964 (2018)
Thesis
Cross, B. M. (2018). The historical geographies of European childhood in colonial Africa : children's lives in Nyasaland 1889-1964. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4221372

The research presented in this thesis recovers the experiences of European children who grew up in colonial Nyasaland, now known as Malawi, in the late nineteenth and early-mid twentieth centuries (1889-1964). These geographical histories of childhoo... Read More about The historical geographies of European childhood in colonial Africa : children's lives in Nyasaland 1889-1964.

Grandfathers caring for orphaned grandchildren in rural Southern Malawi : invisible in plain sight? (2018)
Thesis
Lazaro, M. C. (2018). Grandfathers caring for orphaned grandchildren in rural Southern Malawi : invisible in plain sight?. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4220827

This thesis explores grandfathers’ caregiving for orphaned grandchildren in rural Southern Malawi. Using an ethnographic approach informed by intersectionality and situated within interpretivist framework, children, young people, and adults from rura... Read More about Grandfathers caring for orphaned grandchildren in rural Southern Malawi : invisible in plain sight?.

Youth livelihoods in the cellphone era: Perspectives from urban Africa (2018)
Journal Article
Porter, G., Hampshire, K., de Lannoy, A., Bango, A., Munthali, A., Robson, E., …Owusu, S. (2018). Youth livelihoods in the cellphone era: Perspectives from urban Africa. Journal of international development, 30(4), 539-558. https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.3340

Issues surrounding youth employment and unemployment are central to the next development decade. Understanding how youth use mobile phones as a means of communicating and exchanging information about employment and livelihoods is particularly import... Read More about Youth livelihoods in the cellphone era: Perspectives from urban Africa.

Young people's daily mobilities in Sub-Saharan Africa: Moving young lives (2017)
Book
Porter, G., Hampshire, K., Abane, A., Munthali, A., Robson, E., & Mashiri, M. (2017). Young people's daily mobilities in Sub-Saharan Africa: Moving young lives. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-45431-7

This book explores the daily mobilities and immobilities of children and young people in sub-Saharan Africa. The authors draw on findings from rural and urban field research extending over many years, culminating in a 24-site study across three Afric... Read More about Young people's daily mobilities in Sub-Saharan Africa: Moving young lives.

“My happiest time” or “my saddest time”? The spatial and generational construction of marriage among youth in rural Malawi and Lesotho (2017)
Journal Article
Ansell, N., Hajdu, F., van Blerk, L., & Robson, E. (2018). “My happiest time” or “my saddest time”? The spatial and generational construction of marriage among youth in rural Malawi and Lesotho. Transactions - Institute of British Geographers, 43(2), 184-199. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12211

Marriage among African teenagers is currently a central focus of campaigns by UN agencies and international NGOs. Yet, marriage has received only limited attention from geographers and has largely escaped the attention of geographers of youth. In thi... Read More about “My happiest time” or “my saddest time”? The spatial and generational construction of marriage among youth in rural Malawi and Lesotho.

Fears for the future: the incommensurability of securitisation and in/securities among southern African youth (2017)
Journal Article
Ansell, N., Hajdu, F., van Blerk, L., & Robson, E. (2017). Fears for the future: the incommensurability of securitisation and in/securities among southern African youth. Social & cultural geography, 20(4), 507-533. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2017.1344871

Over the past two decades, southern Africa has experienced both exceptionally high AIDS prevalence and recurrent food shortages. International institutions have responded to these challenges by framing them as security concerns that demand urgent int... Read More about Fears for the future: the incommensurability of securitisation and in/securities among southern African youth.

AIDS-affected young people's access to livelihood assets: Exploring 'new variant famine' in rural southern Africa (2016)
Journal Article
Ansell, N., Hajdu, F., van Blerk, L., & Robson, E. (2016). AIDS-affected young people's access to livelihood assets: Exploring 'new variant famine' in rural southern Africa. Journal of rural studies, 46, 23-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2016.05.008

Southern Africa’s exceptionally high HIV prevalence and recurrent food crises prompted De Waal and Whiteside (2003) to hypothesise a 'new variant famine' (NVF) in which inability to access food is driven by the effects of AIDS. Among the tentative ex... Read More about AIDS-affected young people's access to livelihood assets: Exploring 'new variant famine' in rural southern Africa.

Who bears the cost of ‘informal mhealth’? Health-workers’ mobile phone practices and associated political-moral economies of care in Ghana and Malawi (2016)
Journal Article
Hampshire, K., Porter, G., Mariwah, S., Munthali, A., Robson, E., Owusu, S. A., …Milner, J. (2017). Who bears the cost of ‘informal mhealth’? Health-workers’ mobile phone practices and associated political-moral economies of care in Ghana and Malawi. Health Policy and Planning, 32(1), 34-42. https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czw095

Africa’s recent communications ‘revolution’ has generated optimism that using mobile phones for health (mhealth) can help bridge healthcare gaps, particularly for rural, hard-to-reach populations. However, while scale-up of mhealth pilots remains lim... Read More about Who bears the cost of ‘informal mhealth’? Health-workers’ mobile phone practices and associated political-moral economies of care in Ghana and Malawi.

Intergenerational relations and the power of the cell phone: perspectives on young people’s phone usage in sub-Saharan Africa (2015)
Journal Article
Porter, G., Hampshire, K., Abane, A., Munthali, A., Robson, E., Bango, A., …Owusu, S. (2015). Intergenerational relations and the power of the cell phone: perspectives on young people’s phone usage in sub-Saharan Africa. Geoforum, 64(August), 37-46. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.06.002

Cell phones present new forms of sociality and new possibilities of encounter for young people across the globe. Nowhere is this more evident than in sub-Saharan Africa where the scale of usage, even among the very poor, is remarkable. In this paper... Read More about Intergenerational relations and the power of the cell phone: perspectives on young people’s phone usage in sub-Saharan Africa.

Informal m-health: How are young people using mobile phones to bridge healthcare gaps in Sub-Saharan Africa? (2015)
Journal Article
Hampshire, K., Porter, G., Owusu, S. A., Mariwah, S., Abane, A., Robson, E., …Milner, J. (2015). Informal m-health: How are young people using mobile phones to bridge healthcare gaps in Sub-Saharan Africa?. Social science & medicine, 142, 90-99. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.07.033

The African communications ‘revolution’ has generated optimism that mobile phones might help overcome infrastructural barriers to healthcare provision in resource-poor contexts. However, while formal m-health programmes remain limited in coverage and... Read More about Informal m-health: How are young people using mobile phones to bridge healthcare gaps in Sub-Saharan Africa?.

Mobile phones and education in sub-Saharan Africa: from youth practice to public policy (2015)
Journal Article
Robson, E., Abane, A., Bango, A., De Lannoy, A., Gunguluza, N., Hampshire, K., …Tanle, A. (2016). Mobile phones and education in sub-Saharan Africa: from youth practice to public policy. Journal of international development, 28(1), 22-39. https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.3116

Young people’s use of mobile phones is expanding exponentially across Africa. Its transformative potential is exciting, but findings presented in this paper indicate how the downside of mobile phone use in African schools is becoming increasingly app... Read More about Mobile phones and education in sub-Saharan Africa: from youth practice to public policy.

Context matters: fostering, orphanhood and schooling in sub-Saharan Africa (2014)
Journal Article
Hampshire, K., Porter, G., Agblorti, S., Robson, E., Munthali, A., & Abane, A. (2015). Context matters: fostering, orphanhood and schooling in sub-Saharan Africa. Journal of biosocial science, 47(2), 141-164. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021932014000169

A growing body of research suggests that orphanhood and fostering might be (independently) associated with educational disadvantage in sub-Saharan Africa. However, literature on the impacts of orphanhood and fostering on school enrolment, attendance... Read More about Context matters: fostering, orphanhood and schooling in sub-Saharan Africa.

Reconceptualising temporality in young lives: exploring young people's current and future livelihoods in AIDS-affected southern Africa (2013)
Journal Article
Ansell, N., Hajdu, F., van Blerk, L., & Robson, E. (2014). Reconceptualising temporality in young lives: exploring young people's current and future livelihoods in AIDS-affected southern Africa. Transactions - Institute of British Geographers, 39(3), 387-401. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12041

In recent years, anxieties have been expressed that the impacts of southern Africa's AIDS pandemic on young people today will damage their future livelihood prospects. Geographers have been remarkably reluctant to explore young people's future liveli... Read More about Reconceptualising temporality in young lives: exploring young people's current and future livelihoods in AIDS-affected southern Africa.

Rural young people's opportunities for employment and entrepreneurship in globalised southern africa: The limitations of targeting policies (2013)
Journal Article
Hajdu, F., Ansell, N., Robson, E., & Van Blerk, L. (2013). Rural young people's opportunities for employment and entrepreneurship in globalised southern africa: The limitations of targeting policies. International Development Planning Review, 35(2), 155-174. https://doi.org/10.3828/idpr.2013.11

This paper is based on a study with rural young people in Malawi and Lesotho, focusing on their possibilities for accessing (self)employment in the face of the various constraints imposed by their poor rural situations. Participatory group exercises,... Read More about Rural young people's opportunities for employment and entrepreneurship in globalised southern africa: The limitations of targeting policies.

Heavy loads: Children's burdens of water carrying in Malawi (2013)
Journal Article
Robson, E., Porter, G., Hampshire, K., & Munthali, A. (2013). Heavy loads: Children's burdens of water carrying in Malawi. Waterlines, 32(1), 23-35. https://doi.org/10.3362/1756-3488.2013.003

This paper documents water carrying by children aged 9-18 years across Malawi in Southern Africa and evaluates impacts on health and school attendance. At 12 urban and rural field sites quantitative data were collected by questionnaire interviews wit... Read More about Heavy loads: Children's burdens of water carrying in Malawi.

The spatial construction of young people's livelihoods in rural southern Africa (2012)
Journal Article
Ansell, N., van Blerk, L., Robson, E., & Hajdu, F. (2012). The spatial construction of young people's livelihoods in rural southern Africa. Geography, 97(3), 135-140. https://doi.org/10.1080/00167487.2012.12094352

Young people in southern Africa, in common with young people around the world, are social agents, constructing their own lives, albeit within significant structural constraints. Unlike young people in some regions, for most the need to generate a liv... Read More about The spatial construction of young people's livelihoods in rural southern Africa.

Child porterage and Africa's transport gap: evidence from Ghana, Malawi and South Africa (2012)
Journal Article
Porter, G., Hampshire, K., Abane, A., Munthali, A., Robson, E., Mashiri, M., …Dube, S. (2012). Child porterage and Africa's transport gap: evidence from Ghana, Malawi and South Africa. World Development, 40(10), 2136-2154. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2012.05.004

Children's load-carrying has been largely invisible in studies of African economies, being commonly subsumed under women's or family labor. This paper, based on interdisciplinary qualitative and quantitative research in 24 sites, examines the role of... Read More about Child porterage and Africa's transport gap: evidence from Ghana, Malawi and South Africa.

Learning from young people about their lives: Using participatory methods to research the impacts of AIDS in southern Africa (2012)
Journal Article
Ansell, N., Robson, E., Hajdu, F., & van Blerk, L. (2012). Learning from young people about their lives: Using participatory methods to research the impacts of AIDS in southern Africa. Children's Geographies, 10(2), 169-186. https://doi.org/10.1080/14733285.2012.667918

Methods of participatory research have become popular among children's geographers as they are believed to enable young people to speak openly about their lives in unthreatening contexts. In this article, we reflect on our experience of using partici... Read More about Learning from young people about their lives: Using participatory methods to research the impacts of AIDS in southern Africa.

Taking the long view: Temporal considerations in the ethics of children's research activity and knowledge production (2012)
Journal Article
Hampshire, K., Porter, G., Owusu, S., Mariwah, S., Abane, A., Robson, E., …Bourdillon, M. (2012). Taking the long view: Temporal considerations in the ethics of children's research activity and knowledge production. Children's Geographies, 10(2), 219-232. https://doi.org/10.1080/14733285.2012.667921

Children are increasingly engaged in the research process as generators of knowledge, but little is known about the impacts on children's lives, especially in the longer term. As part of a study on children's mobility in Ghana, Malawi and South Afric... Read More about Taking the long view: Temporal considerations in the ethics of children's research activity and knowledge production.

Youth, mobility and mobile phones in Africa: findings from a three-country study (2012)
Journal Article
Porter, G., Hampshire, K., Abane, A., Munthali, A., Robson, E., Mashiri, M., & Tanle, A. (2012). Youth, mobility and mobile phones in Africa: findings from a three-country study. Information Technology for Development, 18(2), 145-162. https://doi.org/10.1080/02681102.2011.643210

The penetration of mobile phones into sub-Saharan Africa has occurred with amazing rapidity: for many young people, they now represent a very significant element of their daily life. This paper explores usage and perceived impacts among young people... Read More about Youth, mobility and mobile phones in Africa: findings from a three-country study.

Spaces, times, and critical moments: a relational time-space analysis of the impacts of AIDS on rural youth in Malawi and Lesotho (2011)
Journal Article
Ansell, N., van Blerk, L., Hajdu, F., & Robson, E. (2011). Spaces, times, and critical moments: a relational time-space analysis of the impacts of AIDS on rural youth in Malawi and Lesotho. Environment & planning. A, 43(3), 525-544. https://doi.org/10.1068/a4363

Southern Africa's AIDS epidemic is profoundly spatially and temporally structured; so too are the lives of the young people whose families it blights. In this paper we draw on qualitative research with AIDS-affected young people in Malawi and Lesotho... Read More about Spaces, times, and critical moments: a relational time-space analysis of the impacts of AIDS on rural youth in Malawi and Lesotho.

Income-generating activities for young people in southern Africa: exploring AIDS and other constraints (2010)
Journal Article
Hajdu, F., Ansell, N., Robson, E., Van Blerk, L., & Chipeta, L. (2011). Income-generating activities for young people in southern Africa: exploring AIDS and other constraints. The Geographical journal, 177(3), 251-263. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4959.2010.00381.x

This paper reports on a study with rural young people (aged 10-24 years) in Malawi and Lesotho, focusing on their opportunities to learn skills and access capital and assets to engage in income-generating activities (IGAs). Participatory group exerci... Read More about Income-generating activities for young people in southern Africa: exploring AIDS and other constraints.

Moving young lives: Mobility, immobility and inter-generational tensions in urban Africa (2010)
Journal Article
Porter, G., Hampshire, K., Abane, A., Robson, E., Munthali, A., Mashiri, M., & Tanle, A. (2010). Moving young lives: Mobility, immobility and inter-generational tensions in urban Africa. Geoforum, 41(5), 796-804. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2010.05.001

This paper explores young people's experiences and perceptions of mobility and mobility constraints in poorer urban areas of Ghana, Malawi and South Africa within the specific context of inter-generational relations. Drawing principally on qualitativ... Read More about Moving young lives: Mobility, immobility and inter-generational tensions in urban Africa.