Meet the 2020 AfOx Visiting Fellows
We are delighted to announce the recipients of the 2020 AfOx Visiting Fellowship Programme. This year 21 researchers from 14 countries have been selected from a competitive pool of more than 200 applicants. The Fellows will spend 8 weeks in Oxford and will be hosted in our partner colleges and departments during their time in Oxford.
The AfOx Visiting Fellowship Programme is now in its fourth year, and the growing community of AfOx Fellows stands at 57 research leaders from 47 institutions across Africa working in a range of fields such as astrophysics, conservation, economics, law, marine science, mathematics and medical humanities. Previous Fellows have gone on to receive further research funding from external sources, prestigious awards, published their research and extended their global networks.
Established in 2017, the AfOx Visiting Fellows Programme is designed to provide exceptional African researchers an opportunity to form international networks and focus on a project of their choice, away from teaching and administrative duties at their home institutions. Open to all research fields, the Fellowship supports researchers to spend 8 weeks at Oxford.
Due to the travel restrictions and social distancing measures in place across the world, the Fellows will be visiting Oxford in the year 2021.
Find out more about the 2020 AfOx Visiting Fellows and their research plans below. For more information on our current and past fellows click here.
AfOx Collaborative Fellows
Abera Tura | Haramaya University, Ethiopia
Nuffield Department of Population Health, Oxford
Collaboration to establish the Ethiopian Obstetric Survey Systems (EthOSS)
Ameha Muluneh |Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford
An Investigation of deformation patterns in the Main Ethiopian Rift
Anani Badje | Programme PACCI, Côte d’Ivoire
Nuffield Department of Medicine, Oxford
Emerging infectious diseases in the context of climate change in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Cindy George | South African Medical Research Council, South Africa
The George Institute for Global Health, Oxford
Piloting the African network for chronic kidney disease (CKD) epidemiology
Dimakatso Gumede | Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa
Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, Oxford
Generation of genetically-modified iPSC-derived macrophages
Ismaila Emahi | University of Energy and Natural Resources, Ghana
Department of Chemistry, Oxford
Electrode Modification Strategies for Toxic Metal Detection via Voltammetry
James Njunge | KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kenya
Department of Paediatrics, Oxford
Is systemic LPS a marker of intestinal dysfunction and a driver of systemic inflammation and mortality among acutely ill undernourished children
Mkunde Chachage | University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, Oxford
Establishing a collaboration for studying dysbiosis in the gut microbiome of HIV-helminth co-infected Africans/Tanzanians
Nosiphiwo Zwane | University of Eswatini, Eswatini
Department of Physics, Oxford
Cosmological tests of Cosmic Acceleration due to Inflationary Quantum Fluctuations
Peter Amadi |Imo State University, Nigeria
Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, Oxford
Impact of Zika virus infection on the metabolic state of microglia, and neural progenitors
Sadio Soukouna | University of Bamako, Mali
Oxford Department of International Development
Mechanisms and figures of local governance of mobility in Africa
Sara Abdel Gaber | Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Institute, Egypt
Department of Materials, Oxford
Development of natural polymer-based scaffolds for bone tissue regeneration
Tolulope Adeleye | Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta, Nigeria
Department of Engineering, Oxford
Improving the efficiency of hydrolysis in Anaerobic Digesters
AfOx-ASC Fellows
Asante Lucy Mtenje | University of Malawi, Malawi
African Studies Centre, Oxford
(Un)Dressing the nation: power, dress and sexuality in Malawian popular art
George Bob-Milliar | Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana
African Studies Centre, Oxford
Party Politics and capital mobilisation in in Ghana
AfOx Law Fellow
Emile Sunjo | University of Buea, Cameroon
Centre for Criminology, The Faculty of Law, Oxford
From peace-breakers to peace-makers? The role of the Anglophone diaspora in the Cameroon’s Separatist Conflict
AfOx TORCH Fellows
Gcobani Qambela | University of Johannesburg, South Africa
The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, Oxford
The Anthropology of Boyhoods
Endalkachew Hailu Guluma | Arba Minch University, Ethiopia
The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, Oxford
An Ecocritical Revaluation of Traditional Environmental Thought and Ecological Knowledge of the Aari of Southern Ethiopia
AfOx TRADE Fellows
Alice Karuri | Strathmore University, Kenya
Department of Zoology, Oxford
Sustainability in global commodity chains: an institutional analysis of farmer organizations
Krossy Mavakala | University of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Department of Zoology, Oxford
Maluku : The flow of Wildmeat from Rural DR Congo
Suzanne Mogue Kamga | IITA-Cameroon, Eco-regional Center , Cameroon
Department of Zoology, Oxford
Ecological sustainability and conservation of Bush Mango under Cocoa agroforestry systems