Fellowship: Urban Food Production and Health Risk management (ESRC-NERC)
Grant holder: Andrew Adam Bradford
Research will focus on 3 case studies, including Addis Ababa in Ethiopia; Hyderabad in India and; Accra in Ghana where qualitative and quantitative research methods will be combined to identify and map health risks and health risk pathways in urban food production across the three cities.
Research tools will include semi-structured interviews; farm, market and consumer surveys; geographical information mapping; water, soil and crop sampling and testing and; health impact survey, assessment and mapping.
Through this interdisciplinary approach to the research topics, this project has clear potential for reducing risk in urban food production, having critical relevance for international academics, policymakers, and producer and consumer communities alike.
Andy Bradford in Gondar, where he is conducting an irrigation water assessment on a USAID funded Urban Gardens for HIV/AIDS Affected Women and Children Programme
PhD student: Partnership and the politics of global health aid in Zambia (ESRC CASE studentship)
Grant holder: Amy Barnes
Understanding the concept and practice of 'partnership' within Zambia and its connections to the politics of global health aid is at the core of Amy’s research. Her work is hosted by the Department of Politics but she has connections in the School of Health And Related Research (ScHARR).
Her CASE partner is PMTC Zambia, which is a development and training consultancy firm based in Lusaka.
In the spirit of the CASE awards, further links have been made to the Ministry of Health and other donor organisations.
Amy Barnes in Zambia, where she is researching Partnership and the politics of global health aid
Research grant: Embedding poor people's voices in local governance: participation and political empowerment in India (ESRC-DFID)
Grant holder: Dr Glyn Williams
Poor people's lack of voice and influence are globally recurring themes in many of their own accounts of their poverty, and are indicative of their wider political disempowerment.
This project evaluates attempts to tackle this core element of poverty through local governance reform. Its central research question is: to what extent do participatory initiatives within local governance enhance poor people’s opportunities for political empowerment?
Research network/collaboration: Developing an International Research for Health Network (ESRC)
Grant holder: Graham Jones
Partners from the Universities of Zambia, Ghana, Aga Khan (Pakistan) and Sheffield are joining with Healthlink Worldwide and Save the Children to provide an international and interdisciplinary network that will stimulate the exchange of ideas, strengthen collaborations between early career researchers and explore issues surrounding participatory research methodologies in the field of health.
