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Programme: Development Research PhD Workshop

Please note: The program is preliminary and changes may apply

Workshop Day 1 - Wednesday October 23

12.30 - 13.30

Lunch at the Department of Political Science in Room Ed222
 

13.30 - 13.45

Welcome adress
 

13.45 - 15.30

Paper Session 1A in Room Ed222a
Paper Session 1B in Room Ed222b
(See details below)
 

15.30 - 16.00

Coffee Break
 

16.00 - 17.00

Presentations on Development Research by the Organizing Committee
 

19.00

Dinner at GattoStretto, Address: Kattesund 6A, 222 23 Lund

Workshop Day 2 - Thursday October 24

9.00 - 10.45

Paper Session 2A in Room Ed222a
Paper Session 2B in Room Ed222b
(See details below)
 

10.45 - 11.15

Coffee Break
 

11.15 - 12.15

Skills Training by the Organizing Committee
 

12.15 - 13.15

Lunch at the Department of Political Science
 

13.15 - 14.30

Paper Session 3 in Room Ed222a
(See details below)
 

14.30 - 15.00

Closing Remarks by Organizing Committee + plenum discussion
 

15.00

Optional end-of-workshop coffee break

Paper Sessions

PAPER SESSION 1A. Commentator: Kristina Jönsson (Department of Political Science, Lund University).

•Enyam Joel Agbesinyale ”Politics of Mineral Governance: The case of Ghana’s Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining (ASM) Sector”

•Rosette Nkundimfura “Women And Peacebuilding At Community Level In Post-genocide Rwanda: The Case Of Sevota”

•Till Wicker “Helping Cash Transfer Recipients Overcome Self-Control Challenges: Experimental Evidence from a Humanitarian Setting”

 

PAPER SESSION 1B. Commentator: Fred Dzanku (Institute of Statistical Social and Economic Research, University of Ghana).

•Annrose Wairimu Mwangi “Improving understanding of the links in the plant-soil-water nexus for guiding rangeland restoration in East Africa”

•Jean de Dieu Nkubito “Patterns Of Food (In)security From Livestock-transfer Programmes: Case Of Girinka Programme In Rwanda”

•Valens Bimenyimana “Contribution of Memorial Sites to the Understanding of the Genocide Perpetrated against the Tutsi in Rwanda in 1994”

 

PAPER SESSION 2A. Commentator: Ellen Hillbom.

•Karolin Andersson “Gender relations in Rwanda’s agriculture - continuity or change?”

•Anthony Smythe “Building Resilience to Economic Shrinking for Long-run Prosperity”

•Jonathan Rahn “Just and Sustainable Forest Governance in Times of Transition”

 

PAPER SESSION 2B. Commentator: Fredrik Söderbaum (School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg).

•Kenneth Felitse “What Governments Do, Why They Do It, and What Difference It Makes”: Public Policy and Informal Settlements in Ghana”

•Linn Ternsjö “Industrial workers and the labour issue in production: the case of garment manufacturing in Mauritius”

•Johanna Blomgren “MIDWIZE - Strengthening midwives to lead quality improvements to optimise maternity care in Uganda”

 

PAPER SESSION 3. Commentator: Anders Sjögren (Department of Government, Uppsala University).

•Sadiq Abubakar Gulma "The interplay of cross-sector social innovations and urban development in Nigeria“

•Gertrude Aputiik “The Potential of Collective Tenure Arrangements for Transforming Gender Land Relations in Agricultural Investments in Ghana“