Makerere University: THRiVE to Research Excellence (THRiVE-2)

The project will have established an enduring public engagement equitable partnership (school students and DTs) based on mutual understanding, trust, and benefits. We will have carried out reality testing of the new proposed approach to PER of using a human-centered approach in three phases of Discovery, Alpha and Expansion. Building on data from THRiVE’s previous two- year experiences when doctoral students engaged schools of their choices enabled us to achieve phase one and now focus on the second phase. At two years we shall have tested our hypothesis that:” School children are interested in sustained opportunities to participate in PER with DTs”. This will have been achieved collaboratively, as a community of practice (students, their teachers, doctoral students their supervisors, and collaborators) by co- creating, co-designing, co-implementing PER activities and generating evidence for similar future PER initiatives aimed to maximize research impact and provided us with a foundation for possible scale up. We will have enhanced interest in PER by future researchers at two levels: (a) DTs and (b) school children; increased our understanding on how to embed PER in DTs’ research; empowered YPS to engage researchers and stimulated them to develop their own projects. The project will have advanced PER and THRiVE’s public visibility and developing THRiVE as a leader in advancing PER as an integral component of doctoral training, identified and addressed ethical challenges in implementing PER projects that is originally built on a platform of severe power imbalances researchers and the public like school students.

Programme: Research Enrichment - Public Engagement

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