Funded Projects 2017/18
Thirty-four (34) research projects/initiatives have been awarded the Cambridge-Africa ALBORADA Research Fund for 2017-18 and two applications are still under consideration for potential funding.
| Research/ Initiative Title | Cambridge and African Collaborators | African Country | |
| 1 | Establishment of tissue culture and genetic transformation for scalable cowpea improvement in sub-Saharan Africa | Dr Alison Bentley (Genetics & Breeding, NIAB) and Dr John Saviour Yaw Eleblu (University of Ghana) | Ghana |
| 2 | Re-Collecting the Missionary Road: Fieldwork at the Kuruman Moffat Mission | Dr Chris Wingfield (Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology) and Dr Jesmael Mataga (Sol Plaatje University) | South Africa |
| 3 | The conservation and livelihood impacts of Uganda's Sawlog Production Grant Scheme | Dr Chris Sandbrook (Geography) and Dr David Mwesigye Tumusiime (Makerere University) | Uganda |
| 4 | Conservancies and Pastoralists in Northern Kenya: Land and Livelihoods in Transition | Dr Elizabeth Emma Watson (Geography) and Dr Hussein Abdullahi Mahmoud (Technical University of Mombasa) | Kenya |
| 5 | Self-employment and family life: A study of workers in Ghana's informal sector | Dr Brendan J Burchell (Sociology) and Dr Francis Annor (University of Ghana) | Ghana |
| 6 | Computational Linguistic skills training at Makerere University |
Dr Andrew Caines (Department of Theoretical & Applied Linguistics) and Dr Fridah Katushemererwe (Makerere University) | Uganda |
| 7 | Identity dilemma of the Rwandan-Kenyan or Kenyan-Rwandan community in Kericho, Kenya | Dr Andrea Grant (Centre of African Studies) and Dr David Mwambari (United States International University-Africa-Kenya) | Uganda |
| 8 | Expansion of Teachers' Roles and Responsibilities in Inclusive Primary Schools in Kenya | Dr Nidhi Singal (Education) and Dr Pamela Buhere (MMUST, Kenya) | Kenya |
| 9 | Epigenetic regulation of sex ratio and variant antigen expression in clinical isolates of Plasmodium falciparum | Dr Oliver Billker (Wellcome Trust-Sanger Institute) and Dr Bismarck Dinko (University of Health and Allied Sciences) | Ghana |
| 10 | Pilot-analysis of Uganda's National Pharmacovigilance database and test-use of the Yellow Card Smartphone app of the UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency | Professor Sheila M. Bird (Cambridge Institute of Public Health) and Dr Ronald Kiguba (Makerere University) | Uganda |
| 11 | Targeting Theileria: Identification of novel drug targets against East Coast Fever | Dr Paula MacGregor (Biochemistry) and Professor Luis Neves (University of Pretoria) | South Africa |
| 12 | Unravelling P. falciparum invasion of Red Blood Cells: Assay optimization and application workshop | Dr Alejandro Marin-Menendez (Wellcome Trust-Sanger Institute) and Dr Silvia Njeri Kariuki (KEMRI) | Kenya |
| 13 | Training workshop on nutrition | Dr Dora I.A. Pereira (Pathology) and Dr Mohammad Ilias Hossain (MRC Gambia) | The Gambia |
| 14 | Introductory course in next generation sequencing data analysis and machine learning | Dr Sudhakaran Prabakaran (Genetics) and Dr Bridget P. Bannerman (University of Sierra Leone) | Sierra Leone |
| 15 | Functional studies of a potential blood stage malaria vaccine candidate | Dr Julian C. Rayner (Wellcome Trust-Sanger Institute) and Dr Jerome Nyhalah Dinga (University of Buea) | Cameroon |
| 16 | 7th TReND course on insect neuroscience and neurogenetics | Professor Steven Russell (Genetics) and Yunusa Mohammed Garba (Gombe State University) | Nigeria |
| 17 | Is biofilm formation correlated with antibiotic resistance in environmental isolates of Enterobacteriaceae harvested from Kenyan waste water? | Dr Martin Welch (Biochemistry) and Anthony Waywire Sifuna (Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology) | Kenya |
| 18 | Whole Genome Sequencing for understanding food and waterborne pathogens in Africa | Dr Ankur Mutreja (Medicine) and Dr Karen Keddy (National Institute for Communicable Diseases) | Ghana, Nigeria, DRC, Senegal, South Africa, Togo, Kenya |
| 19 | Do seasonal changes in the pharyngeal microbiome influence the risk of epidemic meningitis in the African meningitis belt? | Dr Caroline Trotter (Vet Med) and Kanny Diallo (University of Ghana) | Ghana |
| 20 | Development of low-cost Visible-Light Photocatalyts for degradation of emerging contaminants in water | Dr Stuart Matthew Clarke (Chemistry and the BP Institute) and Dr Emmanuel Iyayi Unuabonah (Redeemer's University) | Nigeria |
| 21 | An assessment of etiology and co-infections in African children admitted with acute gastroenteritis after introduction of rotavirus vaccination | Dr Barbara Ann Blacklaws (Vet Med) and Dr Charles Nyagoti Agoti (KEMRI) | Kenya |
| 22 | Genotyping of Local Ghanaian Pig Populations | Dr Carole Anne Sargent (Pathology) and Dr Richard Osei-Amponsah (University of Ghana) | Ghana |
| 23 | Re-examining the contradictions: women's economic empowerment and vulnerability to Gender Based Violence in Uganda | Dr Solava Ibrahim (Centre of Development Studies) and Dr Catherine Pauline Anena (School of women and Gender Studies) | Uganda |
| 24 | Comparative Bioethics: A framework for culturally-responsive implementation of ethical guidelines for international collaborative research | Dr Stephen David John (History and Philosophy of Science) and Dr John Barugahare (Philosophy) | Uganda |
| 25 | Gendered Experiences; Nostalgia and Memory in Selected Written and Oral Ugandan War Narratives | Dr Devon E. A. Curtis (Politics and International Studies) and Dr Florence Ebila (School of Women and Gender Studies) | Uganda |
| 26 | Legal and Institutional Constraints to the Development of Early Stage Enterprise Financing in Uganda | Professor Simon Francis Deakin (Faculty of Law and Centre for Business Research) and Dr Winifred Mary Tarinyeba Kiryabwire (Linguistics, English Language Studies and Communication Skills) | Uganda |
| 27 | Deconstructing Al Shabaab and ISIS: a cross-cultural exploration of news reports on terrorism across the British and Ugandan press | Dr Ella McPherson (Sociology) and Dr Levis Mugumya (Linguistics, English Language Studies and Communication Skills) | Uganda |
| 28 | Using advanced genomic analysis to identify viral pathogens in residual diagnostic specimens after routine laboratory testing for haemorrhagic fever causative agents. | Dr Simon David William Frost (Vet med) and Dr Joseph Humphrey Kofi Bonney (Noguchi) | Ghana |
| 29 | Anti-Plasmodial mechanisms of mosquito gut bacteria isolated from field-caught malaria vectors. | Dr Frank Jiggins (Genetics) and Dr Jewelna Akorli (Noguchi) | Ghana |
| 30 | Synthesis and Application of Visible Light Photocatalyt in Oil Spill Remediation | Dr Ramachandran Vasant Kumar (Materials Science and Metallurgy) and Dr Emmanuel Nyankson (Materials Science and Engineering) | Ghana |
| 31 | Nano-Engineered Water Filter: Processing and Properties | Dr Laura Torrente Murciano and Dr Michael De Volder (Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology / Institute for Manufacturing) and Dr Ebenezer Annan (Materials Science and Engineering) | Ghana |
| 32 | Transmission of infectious disease causing zoonotic pathogens by camel hippoboscids in northern Kenya | Professor Mark Carrington (Biochemistry) and Dr Joel Ltilitan Bargul (ICIPE) | Kenya |
| 33 | Understanding the Roles of Traditional Health Practitioners in the control and care of breast and cervical cancer: Are they facilitators or barriers to early diagnosis? | Dr Fiona Walter Walter (Public Health and Primary Care) and Dr Amos Mwaka | Uganda |
| 34 | Integrated soil management to improve soil fertility and function for crop production | Dr Lydia Smith, NIAB Innovation Farm and EA Innovation Hub and Dr Kingsley Chinyere Uzoma, Department of Soil Science and Meteorology, Michael Okpara, University of Agriculture, Umudike, Nigeria | Nigeria |