The British Academy recently announced the 17 successful applicants to its ODA Research Management Capacity Strengthening 2024 and our Don, Dr. Becky Aloo from the School of Science, is among the successful applicants.
The call aims to reach beyond individual capacity and skills development to achieve sustainable transformation at an institutional level. The Award is expected to involve significant time devoted to dialogue and communication between the institutions involved so that links can be built and enhanced, ways of working can be adapted and best practice can be reached for all those involved in supporting future research projects.
The intended outcome of this programme is to enhance the capabilities of institutions in Brazil, Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, Kenya, Malaysia, Philippines, South Africa, Turkey, Thailand, Vietnam, and/ or Least Developed Countries and UK-based institutions to overcome systemic barriers of working across borders and to embed the resulting best practise within the institutions to support sustained, equitable, international research collaboration.
This call is supported by the UK’s International Science Partnership Fund managed by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology. In the context of this call, funding from the International Science Partnerships Fund is funded by Official Development Assistance (ODA).
Dr. Becky Aloo from the School of Science will be part for the research team funded by the ODA Research Management Capacity Strengthening 2024. The team will be led by Dr. Hilary Lynch from Royal Holloway, University of
London which will receive £ 49,994.00 and the title of the project is “UK-East Africa Research Management Capacity Strengthening Across the Grant Lifecycle.”
The project focuses on strengthening research management capacity in the UK and East African institutions across the entire research grant lifecycle, enabling research managers to support academics in
- Developing research grant applications
- Navigating legal and policy aspects surrounding grant awards
- Effectively managing grant finances
- Engaging in dissemination and commercialization of research outcomes.
This will be achieved through mutual learning and understanding of partners’ realities, priorities, demands and challenges, leading to a new and more equitable way of working together. This will in turn lead to the establishment
of better financial management practices, good institutional research policy frameworks and upskilled professional service staff. The anticipated project outputs will be the establishment of better systems for financial management, a toolkit and training programme for legal staff, a research policy framework and research policy documents, a grant application training programme, and a training course in knowledge exchange and commercialization.
The Research team;
- Dr. Hilary Lynch, Royal Holloway, University of London (Team Leader)
- Prof. John Baptist Tumuhairwe, University of Makerere
- Dr. Becky Aloo, University of Eldoret
- Dr. Manasi Echaune, Kibabii University
