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Medical Imaging Alliance: Siberia and Hull Sep 3, 2018 - Sep 2, 2019
British Council Newton Trust monies for a workshop in Novosibirsk on the topic of medical imaging. Aim is to forge good links with universities there and then apply for larger funds.

Building an evidence base to support and enhance community health workers' (informal) use of mobile phones in Ghana, Malawi and Ethiopia Jan 1, 2018 - Sep 30, 2019
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 Building an evidence base to support and enhance community health workers' (informal) use of mobile phones in Ghana, Malawi and Ethiopia.

QR-GCRF RF 06 2019 Identifying Cambodian School Teachers’ Needs to Improve their Performance: Stakeholders’ views on teachers’ psychological well-being as a way to improve teachers’ performance. Jul 15, 2019 - Jul 21, 2019
Cambodia’s education system started virtually from zero in 1979 after the atrocities of the Khmer Rouge regime. This
regime killed least 1.7 million people out of seven million and 75%-80% of Cambodia’s teachers died or fled (Tan &
N.G., 2012). The... Read More about QR-GCRF RF 06 2019 Identifying Cambodian School Teachers’ Needs to Improve their Performance: Stakeholders’ views on teachers’ psychological well-being as a way to improve teachers’ performance..

GCRF 2019 PPF14: Development of Rapid Detection Methods to Mediate the Impact of Cyanobacteria and Cyanotoxins in drinking water on Diarrhoea (Cholera) and related Public Health Diseases in Ghana Apr 1, 2019 - Mar 31, 2020
The pilot study aims to develop and test prototypes of Aptamer based bio-sensors for fast, cost effective detection of cyanobacteria toxins (microcystins) in drinking water in Ghana. With most African countries struggling to provide safe water cyanob... Read More about GCRF 2019 PPF14: Development of Rapid Detection Methods to Mediate the Impact of Cyanobacteria and Cyanotoxins in drinking water on Diarrhoea (Cholera) and related Public Health Diseases in Ghana.

GCRF 2019 PPF17: Enabling scalability of the reading to learn methodology in STEM education using video observations in South African township schools Feb 1, 2019 - Jul 31, 2019
This project will develop the capacity of teachers working in underprivileged township schools in Johannesburg, to teach students how to read for the purpose of learning and understanding ‘threshold concepts’ those concepts that are core to a subject... Read More about GCRF 2019 PPF17: Enabling scalability of the reading to learn methodology in STEM education using video observations in South African township schools.

Social cash transfers, generational relations and youth poverty trajectories in rural Lesotho and Malawi Oct 1, 2015 - Sep 30, 2019
Youth poverty is important, not least because of its implications for the future, yet rural youth poverty in particular has received little attention from researchers or policy makers. The major recent innovation in policy responses to poverty in sub... Read More about Social cash transfers, generational relations and youth poverty trajectories in rural Lesotho and Malawi.

GCRF: The Antislavery Knowledge Network: Community-Led Strategies for Creative and Heritage-Based Interventions in Sub-Saharan Africa Sep 1, 2017 - Sep 30, 2021
The Antislavery Knowledge Network offers the first extended effort to address slavery as a core development challenge in sub-Saharan Africa via innovative approaches from the arts and humanities that deliver community-engaged antislavery work. Focusi... Read More about GCRF: The Antislavery Knowledge Network: Community-Led Strategies for Creative and Heritage-Based Interventions in Sub-Saharan Africa.