Six researchers from Ethiopia, Nigeria, South Africa, Tunisia and Liberia have been awarded the 2020-21 Senior AfOx Visiting Fellowships. Their proposed areas of study cover a range of disciplines: philosophy, history, neuroimaging, astrophysics, public health and research ethics. Built on the success of the AfOx Visiting Fellows Programme, the Senior AfOx Visiting Fellowships are designed to enable accomplished African researchers to spend up to three academic terms in [...]

The internet has become an integral part of our lives, which has only intensified during these times of self-isolation and social distancing. Terrens Muradzikwa, a digital entrepreneur from Zimbabwe and an MBA student at Said Business School on the Rhodes scholarship, talks to us about the impact of digital technologies in Africa and the creation […]

This month, we awarded the 200th Travel Grant since our establishment in 2016. The AfOx Travel Grants represent a breadth of emerging research collaborations between researchers based in African institutions and the University of Oxford.   Initiated with the aim of supporting new collaborations between researchers based in African institutions and the University of Oxford, the AfOx Travel Grants are […]

The internet has become an integral part of our lives, which has only intensified during these times of self-isolation and social distancing. Terrens Muradzikwa, a digital entrepreneur from Zimbabwe and an MBA student at Said Business School on the Rhodes scholarship, talks to us about the impact of digital technologies in Africa and the creation […]

This week we caught up with Dr Mona Ibrahim. A medical Doctor from Sudan, Mona has just started her new role as a Research Officer at the Department of Social Policy and Intervention at Oxford University after the successful completion of the Masters in International Health and Tropical Medicine. Mona, who describes herself as “a […]

We met with Dr Sulaiman Jalloh at the Infectious Diseases Data Observatory (IDDO) office in Oxford. A medical doctor from Sierra Leone, Sulaiman played a critical role in saving lives and crises management during the Ebola outbreak in 2014. Since then he has successfully completed the MSc International Health & Tropical Medicine from the University [...]

This month, we awarded the 200th Travel Grant since our establishment in 2016. The AfOx Travel Grants represent a breadth of emerging research collaborations between researchers based in African institutions and the University of Oxford.   Initiated with the aim of supporting new collaborations between researchers based in African institutions and the University of Oxford, the AfOx Travel Grants are […]

AfOx travel grant recipients, Renier Coetzee and Oliver van Hecke are working together to establish a new pharmacist-prescriber network to encourage the appropriate use of antibiotics in the Cape Metro region, South Africa. Taking antibiotics when we do not need them can cause bacteria in our body to change and become resistant to drugs. This […]

Barry Nourou travelled 45,000 miles from his hometown of Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso to Oxford to complete the final chapters of his PhD on ‘Health research programs: Social Representation and community engagement in a village in Western Burkina Faso’. Keen to understand the history of his community and contribute to their development, Barry completed a degree [...]

Louise Bezuidenhout, Research Fellow at Oxford University’s Institute for Science, Innovation and Society and Ola Karrar a Lecturer in Statistics at the University of Khartoum in Sudan first met in the medieval city of Trieste in Italy in the summer of 2017. At a summer school on Research Data Management, taking place in Trieste, Louise […]

Six researchers from Ethiopia, Nigeria, South Africa, Tunisia and Liberia have been awarded the 2020-21 Senior AfOx Visiting Fellowships. Their proposed areas of study cover a range of disciplines: philosophy, history, neuroimaging, astrophysics, public health and research ethics. Built on the success of the AfOx Visiting Fellows Programme, the Senior AfOx Visiting Fellowships are designed to enable accomplished African researchers to spend up to three academic terms in [...]

As a student, Alemseged Beldados’ favourite subject was history. He was very keen to understand how human society developed over time, especially the transition from hunting and gathering to farming and agriculture. However, the study of history does not go beyond a certain period and soon Alem realised to study pre-historic times, he would need […]

Audrey Mbogho is from the Wadawida community of about 400,000 people in South-Eastern Kenya, who speak the language of Kidawida.  Audrey recalls being punished in school for speaking her mother tongue – Kidawida. Teachers thought that speaking native languages in school was a ‘terrible vice’ that interfered with learning English. Audrey’s parents were both teachers […]