The RYVU team are delighted to be starting up fieldwork again! We will soon be undertaking the pilot of our…
Please click on the video below to watch Prof. Peter Kanyandago from Uganda Martyrs University take part in the Global…
Please click on this video below to watch Dr. Aisling O’Loghlen’s presentation about the RYVU project to the P50 Panel…
By Dr. Moses Okech “How do you account for this time when you only wake up every morning to look…
By Dr. Robert Turyamureeba Working and living with young refugees is an opportunity especially during the COVID19 pandemic when we…
Due to the spread of Covid-19, we have temporarily paused fieldwork and all face to face meetings for RYVU in…
Professor Matt Baillie Smith, from the Northumbria Centre for International Development, will lead a new ESRC/GCRF research project with colleagues from the UK and Uganda over the next two years. Prof. Baillie Smith will be the Principal Investigator on the international project “Skills acquisition and employability through volunteering by displaced youth in Uganda” (total grant value £862,003).
Volunteering seems to be becoming less helpful than it used to be. A few months back I visited Uganda with my colleague Dr Aisling O’Loghlen to meet with our academic and policy and practice partners for Refugee Youth Volunteering Uganda (RYVU), a research project funded by the UK’s Economic and Social Research Centre/Global Challenges Research Fund.