Aber, Lawrence J. et al (2016) ‘Impacts After One Year of “Healing Classroom” on Children's Reading and Math Skills in DRC: Results From a Cluster Randomized Trial’ Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness 10.3: 507-529.
Projects & Publications
Each project is summarised to describe the work of the research grant recipients and their intended impact and outputs. This view shows projects mapped to the locations where the research was carried out.
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Research for policy and practice
Women and conflict
Research evidence from the ESRC-DFID Strategic Partnership explores social norms, economic empowerment and women’s political participation in fragile and conflict-affected states including Jordan, Pakistan and Somaliland.
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Urbanisation in Somali Cities
How research has captured the experiences of displaced people in four Somali cities and provided spaces for them to raise their concerns with policymakers.
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Building peace in the new oil frontiers of Northern Kenya
Oil has brought foreign investment to Northern Kenya in an area inhabited by pastoralists. Researchers have enabled different parties to navigate a sensitive process for future oil development.
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Climate Change-Modern Slavery Nexus, Cambodia
Focuses on Cambodian brick kilns to examine how a high vulnerability to climate change can facilitate trafficking into new industries and greater susceptibility to modern slavery.
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Aber, Lawrence J. et al (2017) ‘Promoting children's learning and development in conflict-affected countries: Testing change process in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’, Development and Psychopathology 29.1: 53-67.
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Principal Investigator: Paul Collier.
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Principal Investigator: Monika Barbara Zurek. Lead Organisation: University of Oxford (School of Geography and the Environment).
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Principal Investigator: Tamsin Bradley.
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Principal Investigator: Cecilia Tacoli.
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Principal Investigator: Mercy Fekadu Mulugeta. Lead Organisation: Institute for Peace and Security Studies
Co-investigators: Kidane Kiros Bitsue; Jennifer Elizabeth Hodbod; Edward Geoffrey Jedediah Stevenson; Fana Gebresenbet Erda; Emma Jayne Tebbs
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Principal Investigator: Katherine Ann Brickell. Lead Organisation: Royal Holloway, University of London
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This project seeks to incorporate migrant perspectives and sources of innovation into urban planning to build safer and more sustainable cities, addressing environmental sustainability, poverty, and conflict and security.
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In developing countries experiencing high levels of poverty and inequality, getting the balance right between economic development and protection of the natural environment can be a major challenge for policymakers. This project will use an innovative approach known as 'everyday studies': a way of investigating the routine and seemingly mundane.
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