Looking ahead:
Professor Alpesh Maisuria will be presenting a seminar on Critical Realism, on 09th April 2025. More information is available here: CGD Critical Realism Seminar - A Conversation with Professor Alpesh Maisuria | Events | The University of Aberdeen
Professor Wenceslas Nzabalirwa, Joint-PI on the NIHR CAMW Project, is organising the 3rd International Conference on "Re-shaping Education for Sustainable Development" in Kigali, Rwanda, between 14th and 16th May 2025. Professor Pamela Abbott, the CGD Director, will be a keynote speaker.
What's been happening in the CGD:
The mindfulness intervention has started in the interventions schools for the NIHR CAMW Project, and baseline fieldwork has been completed.
Members of the NIHR CAMW Project team met in Addis Ababa for workshops on Critical Realist Interviewing and Advanced Statistics, between the 17th and 28th February 2025. All resources will be shared on the project website soon.
Professor Pamela Abbott delivered a seminar presentation to the Department of Sociology, Addis Ababa University on Thursday 13th May 2025, entitled 'Critical Realism in Evaluating Complex Health and Social Interventions". The PowerPoint slides are available here: Presentations | Education | The University of Aberdeen
Dr Lucia D'Ambruoso has been awarded £29,866.00 in funding from the Medical Research Foundation for a 1-year project entitled 'Building bridges - institutionalising practical solutions for community participation in rural South Africa through primary health care policy and practice engagement'. Congratulations!
Updated training resources on NViVo, and the resources from our qualitative and quantitative fieldwork workshops in summer 2025 are all available on the NIHR CAMW Open Access Training page, here: Open Access Training | Education | The University of Aberdeen
PhD student Isayas Wubshet Alemu published as a pre-print the protocol entitled 'The Social Determinants of Depression among Adolescents in Low and Middle Income Countries: A Scoping Review Protocol'. It is available to read here: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.10.04.24314891v1
The peer-review journal article '"Space to see the future?" A political economy analysis of child and adolescent mental health and well-being in Ethiopia including routes for change' was published in Frontiers in Sociology. It is available to read here: https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2024.1488619
Dr Kibur Engdawork also presented a seminar on the above paper on 29th November 2024 and the recording is available to view here: Publications & Outputs | Education | The University of Aberdeen