Capacity Building
CREATE supports capacity building in a variety of ways. The main focus of capacity building activities is around the development of research skills amongst team members. The primary audience for capacity building is therefore the constituency of junior and middle level CREATE team members in partner institutes, including those in the UK. Capacity building activities are described below.
CREATE has succeeded in developing a cluster of Doctoral level students working on access related topics. Much of this has been funded outside the CREATE budget by attracting additional funding currently totalling more than £350,000. This is an indication of CREATE’s success and a recognition of the significance of its work. Examples of this aspect of capacity building in CREATE include:
Award |
Funding body |
Location |
Name / location of candidate |
Research focus |
Dates |
DPhil |
Commonwealth Scholarship |
Uni of Sussex |
Anupam Pachauri, India |
Multiple providers of educational services, Rajasthan, India |
Oct 07-10 |
DPhil (award tbc) |
Commonwealth Scholarship |
Uni of Sussex |
Stephanie Buckland, South Africa |
Education access for unregistered migrants in South Africa |
Oct 08 - 11 |
DPhil |
MOESS Ghana |
Uni of Sussex |
Luke Akaguri, Ghana |
Educational financing and access in Ghana |
Oct 07-10 |
DPhil |
MOESS Ghana |
Uni of Sussex |
Eric Ananga, Ghana |
Drop outs from school, Ghana |
Oct 07-10 |
PhD (with MSc.) |
ESRC |
Institute of Education |
Caine Rolleston, UK |
EFA in Ghana |
Oct 06-10 |
Int EdD |
CREATE |
Uni of Sussex |
Zia Sabur, Bangladesh |
Non state providers of education, Bangladesh |
July 07 -10 |
DPhil |
self |
Uni of Sussex |
Stuart Cameron |
Family choice strategies for education, Bangladesh |
Oct 07 - 10 |
DPhil |
self |
Uni of Sussex |
Guarav Siddhu |
School feeding programmes in India |
Oct 07 – 10 |
PhD (with MSc.) |
ESRC |
Institute of Education |
Victoria Perry |
EFA in fragile states |
Oct 08 - 12 |
PhD |
Aga Khan Scholarship |
Institute of Education |
Ruth Otienoh |
Large classes and access |
Oct 07 - 10 |
PhD |
IOE Centenary scholarship |
Institute of Education |
Audrey Mwansa |
Access in Zambia |
Oct 05 |
PhD with MSc |
ESRC scholarship |
Institute of Education |
Victoria Perry |
Access in fragile states |
Oct 07 |
PhD |
UNDP |
Institute of Education |
Grace Wang |
Donor/Recipient Relationships in UNDP Girls Education projects |
Submitting Oct 08 |
Many of these students are CREATE Research associates. CREATE invites postgraduate students at partner institutions working on access to education to become research associates. Click here for a current list of CREATE Research Associates who are also postgraduate students, and details of their research studies.
The Institute of Education in London has also recently fully funded a one-year post doc award for a recently qualified DPhil graduate to work on access-related issues in India. Outputs from this award include PTA 17: Small, Multigrade Schools and Increasing Access to Primary Education in India: National Context and NGO Initiatives. Dr Nicole Blum was the post-doc fellow at the Institute of Education.
CREATE is supporting publication by a number of ‘early career researchers’ (ECRs) in the PTA series (see http://www.create-rpc.org/publications/pathwaystoaccesspapers.shtml ). Those confirmed, include:
| PTA Number |
Title |
Authors |
Date |
10 |
Policies on Free Primary and Secondary Education in East Africa |
Moses Oketch & Caine Rolleston |
May 2007 |
15 |
Inclusive Education in India: Interpretation, Implementation, and Issues |
Katharine Giffard-Lindsay |
Sept 2007 |
16 |
Dropping Out from School: A Cross Country Review of the Literature |
Frances Hunt |
May 2008 |
17 |
Small, Multigrade Schools and Increasing Access to Primary Education in India: National Context and NGO Initiatives |
Nicole Blum & Rashmi Diwan |
Oct 2007 |
21 |
Influence of the Abolition of Fees on Transition to Secondary School: Evidence from Rural Kenya. |
Asayo Ohba |
Oct 2008 |
22 |
Tilling New Ground: Finding Educational Space for Farm School Children |
Veerle Dieltiens |
Nov 2008 |
23 |
The Impact of Grade R Attendance on Subsequent Performance and Transition |
Gift Luxomo & Brahm Fleisch |
Nov 2008 |
27 |
Educational Access and Immigrant Learners in South Africa |
Sarah Motha & Veerle Dieltiens |
Nov 2008 |
36 |
Consumption, Poverty, Educational Access and Attainment: An Analysis of Ghana in the 1990s |
Caine Rolleston |
Sept 2008 |
41 |
The Road to Dropping Out of Primary School in Ghana |
J.G. Ampiah & Eric Ananga |
Oct 2008 |
44 |
Multiple approaches to education provision to support access to the under-served in Bangladesh |
Pauline Rose & Zia-Us-Sabur |
Aug 2008 |
48 |
Understanding Participation in Schooling in Ghana: A Quantitative Analysis |
Abena Oduro |
Sept 2008 |
Additionally less-experienced researchers work alongside side more-experienced research colleagues to develop research products and capacity. This occurs at the national and cross-national levels; inter and intra-institutional levels.
CREATE supports publication by researchers. Publications are internally peer reviewed first and some are externally peer reviewed. Mentoring support assists authors to develop their writing and presentational skills to international publication level. Partner Institute Coordinators (PICs) provide this locally and the CREATE publication system does so centrally. This investment in capacity is essential to ensure research products sustain high quality and have impact. It requires knowledge intensive support.
CREATE also sponsors cross visiting between partners. CREATE has set up a number of workshops to develop products and guide research work. These workshops, which consist of colleagues working collaboratively over institutional and country settings have developed capacity around: research tool development, programme management, communications and conceptualizations around the research. Examples of collaborative workshops are detailed below:
| Date |
Location |
Aim of workshop |
Participants |
16-17 Dec, 07 |
NUEPA Delhi India |
Review research products and finalise publications |
NUEPA CREATE team and NRG members |
July, 07 |
BRAC university Dhaka, Bangladesh |
Review research plans and undertake research instrument piloting |
BRAC CREATE team and NRG members |
26 Feb – 2 Mar, 07 |
University of Sussex |
Develop research tools |
Representatives from CREATE partner institutes |
20 – 27, Nov 06 |
NUEPA Delhi India |
Focus research and develop research tools |
Representatives from CREATE partner institutes |
Oct, 06 |
Accra, Ghana |
Develop research tools |
Representatives from Ghana and South Africa teams |
July, 06 |
University of Sussex |
Focus research and develop research tools |
Representatives from CREATE partner institutes |
In addition to this each country team has devised national level capacity building programmes to support fieldwork and empirical research. These usually take the form of workshops.
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