Rafal Pankowski is a Professor and Coordinator affiliated with Collegium Civitas and the ‘Never Again’ Association in Poland. His work focuses on promoting #Peace, #HumanRights, #AntiRacism, and genocide prevention. #Rotary #Makerere rpc.mak.ac.ug/staff/rafal-...

André Vicente Liz, a PhD candidate at #CIBIO #BIOPOLIS #InBIO 🇵🇹 nominated by #GBIFPortugal, for his integrated analysis of genetic & spatial distribution of vertebrates in the Sahara-Sahel desert.
https://www.gbif.org/news/9SpIV0pXkqfAAhJ6s0IvJ/

Dorothy Akoth, Master's student at #Makerere 🇺🇬 nominated by #UNCSTUganda #NaFIRRI, for improving the knowledge and understanding of the distribution and imperilment of Uganda's native fish species.
https://www.gbif.org/news/6qTuv5Xf1qa05arROvx7Y1/

Portuguese student André Vicente Liz wins 2023 GBIF Graduate Researchers Award

Galician PhD candidate—and second winner nominated by Portugal—offers integrated view of the dynamics behind the vertebrate genetic diversity and biogeography in the Sahara-Sahel

Some good articles in this special issue on 'Expanding the Boundaries of Digital Inclusion: Perspectives From Network Peripheries and Non-Adopters', including one from my #Makerere colleagues and I on #digital inclusion for #refugees in #Uganda. All open access. https://www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclusion/issue/view/357 #digitaleducation #mscde
Expanding the Boundaries of Digital Inclusion: Perspectives From Network Peripheries and Non-Adopters

Thematic Issue, Vol 11, No 3 (2023)

SI call for papers: Connected Learning in Contexts of #ForcedDisplacement edited by Dr Koula Charitonos (#OpenUniversity) and Dr Rovincer Najjuma (#Makerere University) and me (#Edinburgh). Abstracts due 1 September. https://www.de.ed.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2023-06/Connected%20Learning%20CFP%20-%20Pub.docx%20%281%29-MAR.pdf #blendedlearning #digital #education #refugees

#CFP on Connected Learning in Contexts of #ForcedDisplacement that I am editing with colleagues from #OpenUniversity and #Makerere. Connected learning for #refugees and #IDP is essentially an approximation of #blendedlearning. All are welcome, practitioners and academics. Abstracts due 1 September so plenty of time.

https://www.de.ed.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2023-06/Connected%20Learning%20CFP%20-%20Pub.docx%20%281%29-MAR.pdf

In episode 3 of our #WomenInSTEM campaign, we talk to Dr. Julianne Sansa Otim, Senior Lecturer at #Makerere University and also member of the Board of the Research and Education Network of Uganda - #RENU - and of the regional network for Eastern and Southern Africa - the #UbuntuNetAlliance.

She shares her experience as a woman in STEM in #academia.

Watch the video find out how her research work has funded unique activities in #Uganda 🇺🇬

https://youtu.be/BWFH8uxyXV4

#womenintech #womeninscience

GÉANT #WomenInSTEM 2023 - Julianne Sansa Otim, Makerere University

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Online seminar 20 April on #Refugee participation in higher education in #Uganda: the nexus of brokers, barriers, and the digital. Speakers are Dr Rovincer Najjuma and Dr Rebecca Nambi, both of #Makerere University, and me (of the University of #Edinburgh). All welcome. Findings from a project (2020-2022) that will carry forward to another project (2023-2025) on co-creating inclusion strategies with Ugandan unis.
#UNHCR #CLCC #digital #education https://www.de.ed.ac.uk/event/refugee-participation-higher-education-uganda-nexus-brokers-barriers-and-digital
Refugee participation in higher education in Uganda: the nexus of brokers, barriers, and the digital | Digital Education

Scholarships for the MSc in Digital Education for staff from #Makerere #Bugema #Gulu #Kyambogo #Nkumba and #Uganda Martyr’s University (#Nkozi) https://news.mak.ac.ug/2023/01/scholarships-for-the-msc-in-digital-education/
My incredible colleagues from #Makerere University, Dr Rovincer Najjuma and Dr Rebecca Nambi, at Kyangwali settlement doing more work to integrate refugee students into higher education. #uganda