Dr. Lilian Namuma S. Kong’ani

Proposal Title: “Reframing 'Silencing the Guns': Climate, Women and Peace in Africa's Drylands”

Nomphumelelo Queen Babeli

Proposal Title: “Reading power backward and forward: Women and South African foreign policy, 1994-2024”

Mussie Sewnet Melesse

Proposal Title: “Food security and livelihood strategies among refugees in Western Ethiopia”

Roselyne Karegi Mutura

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): “Reconstruction of the Self: Narration of the Trauma of (Post) Colonialism and Recovery in Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Fiction”

Proposal Title: “Reconstruction of the Self: Narration of the Trauma of (Post) Colonialism and Recovery in Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Fiction”

Brenda Birungi

Proposal Title: “Receiving Cash Amidst Competing Norms: The Case of Breastfeeding South Sudanese Refugees in Bidi-Bidi Settlement Uganda”

Athanas Mutisya Peter

Proposal Title: “Narrating Violence and Peace: War Memory in Selected Ex-Child Soldiers’ Autobiographies from Africa”

Mary Toluwani Adebayo

Proposal Title: “Assessment of Climate Risks, Macroprudential and Monetary Policy Interactions: Case Study of South Africa”

Ibukunoluwa Kikelomo Akinola

Proposal Title: “Climate Change and Medicinal Plants: Implications for African Traditional Medicine and Health Resilience in Nigeria”

Sasha Claude Rai

Proposal Title: "What We Do in the Shadows: The History of the Unorthodox Erotic and Kink Culture"

Dr. Franklin Pyokpung Zaure

Proposal Title: Cultural Pathways to Peace: Harnessing Afropop and Theatre for Youth Civic Engagement in Jos-Nigeria

Kamvalethu Miza

Proposal Title: “Mobile but Stuck: Emotional Labour, Inequality, and Everyday Navigation in Cape Town's Gig Delivery Economy”

Sheron Mathlatse Masekoameng

Proposal Title: “Motherhood Post-Release: Issues of Reintegration Experienced by South African Mothers Regaining Custody”

Tammy-Lee Lakay

Proposal Title: “A History of the South African Committee for Higher Education’s Labour and Community Resources Project: Radical pedagogy and people’s education in the 1980s and 2020s”

Dr. Nwani-Grace Ugwu

Proposal Title: Appraising the Strategic Discursive Role of Traditional Igbo Women Groups in Peacebuilding: Lessons for Intergroup Relations

Ronald Mpilo Bafana

Proposal Title: “Labour Exploitation at the Conservation-Extraction Nexus in iSimangaliso Wetland Park, South Africa”

Edward Govere

Proposal Title: “The Intersection of Migration and Disability in South Africa: A Critical Perspective on Policy and Practice”

Pretty Abraham

Proposal Title: “Indigenous Religion and Trauma healing in post-conflict societies. A Comparative study of women survivors of the Rwandan Genocide and Gukurahundi massacres in Zimbabwe.”

Ithabeleng Mokoena

Proposal Title: “The Socio-political Economy of aggregate mining in Lesotho, 1967-2022”

Jane Waruguru Kimathi

Proposal Title: “Exploring Governance Influences Refugee Women’s Lived Experiences and Social Transformation in the Kalobeyei Integrated Settlement, Kenya”

Kabiru Shaaibu

Proposal Title: "The Role of State and Non-State Actors in Addressing Banditry and Kidnapping in Zamfara and Katsina States (2016-2026)"

Michael Fajobi Ayobami

Proposal Title: “The Political Economy of Artisanal Sand Mining and Environmental Security in Ota Community, Ogun State, Nigeria”

Dr. Sabina Appiah-Boateng

Proposal Title: Sonic Healing and Social Repairs: Investigating Psychosocial Mechanisms of Fishing Songs in Coastal Peacebuilding

Dr. Deborah Odu Obor

Proposal Title: From Informal to Shadow and Conflict Economies: Mapping Networked Governance Structures in the Nigeria Benin borderlands

Dr. Zainab Nuhu

Proposal Title: The Evolution of Insecurity and the Emergence of Crime Economies in Northwestern Nigeria's Borderlands

Dr. Salma K. Khatibu

Proposal Title: Assessing the Peacebuilding Potential of Community-Based Natural Resource Management in the Ruaha-Rungwa Landscape