News & updates
October 30| Issue 22
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CARTA Librarian Group publish, mentor seven years later
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Librarians from CARTA partner universities and research institutions met in
2012
in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania for the Faculty and Administrators Staff (FAS) Workshop.
As a result of the workshop, they formed the
CARTA Librarian Group
which brought together eleven CARTA Institution Libraries – comprising of nine Universities and two research institutes.
FAS is a forum for faculty and administrative staff to discuss to discuss how the different capacities in the universities, can be responsive to and supportive of research, research training, doctoral and post-doctoral fellows. The forums have brought together finance officers, deans of graduate schools, academic deans, librarians, procurement officers, registrars among others to deliberate and appreciate their complementary roles. To date, nearly
630
administrators have been trained in the annual workshops.
Members of the CARTA Librarian Group are
Oluwaseun Obasola, John Ayodele Alonge
(both CARTA Fellows (Cohort Three and Four respectively) from the University of Ibadan),
Peter Devind
(University of the Witswatersrand),
Alison Kinengyere
(Makarere University),
Esther Obachi
(University of Nairobi),
Diston Chiwezea
(University of Malawi),
Joseph Madata
(Ifakara Research Institute),
Charles Rugengamanzi
(University of Rwanda), and
Ibrahim Muhammed
(University of Dar es Salaam)
Photo caption:
The members of the CARTA librarian group during a short training on evidence synthesis at the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) Centre at the Queens University in Kingston Ontario, Canada in March 2018.
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Viva! Somefun's PhD homestretch lined with merit and accolades
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Four book chapters, eight awards, 21 papers, 43 months of doctoral studies, several fellowships and the list goes on and on.
Our Cohort Six Fellow,
Somefun Oluwaseyi Dolapo
from the University of Witwatersrand has hanged her doctoral boots in style. With one accolade after another. She is set to graduate on
December 9
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Her supervisor,
Clifford Odimegwu
, shared: "
I wish to thank CARTA for investing in Dr Seyi Somefun, whose unusual productivity in terms of research output is beyond what any PhD student has done. I know her story and how she was taken by CARTA. It has paid off! She will be an asset as a role model to other CARTA Fellows
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Beatrice interns in the US, presents research in Mexico
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Our Cohort Six Fellow,
Beatrice Maina
from the University of the Witwatersrand was an intern, for two weeks,
She also attended the 24th Congress of the World Association for Sexual Health in Mexico from
October 12 - 15
where she gave two oral presentations on i) Sexual health knowledge and behaviours of young adolescent boys in a resource-poor urban setting in Nairobi, Kenya and; ii) Gendered beliefs and sexual behaviours of young male adolescents in urban informal settlements, Kenya. Beatrice also co-chaired a session on sexual rights and ethics.
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Boladale chimes in to mark World Mental Health Day 2019
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This year’s World Mental Health Day, marked on
October 10
, focused on raising awareness around suicide prevention, recognizing that every 40 seconds someone loses their life to suicide.
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Olujide's abstract captured in conference in Brazil
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An abstract by our Cohort Nine Fellow
Olujide Arije
from the
Obafemi Awolowo University was presented at the
QESymposium Brasilia 2019 conference held
from
October 9-11, 2019
in Brazil
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The theme of the conference is 'Using qualitative evidence to inform decisions in the SDG era: New frontiers and innovations.'
The abstract was titled '
Synthesizing qualitative research evidence from complex interventions by inductive thematic content analysis using modified in-vivo coding,
' is
available in this program (pg 13).
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What we are reading this month
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