Faculty of Business and Development Studies

Research and Community Project Priorities 2008 – 2012

1. Entrepreneurship, Small Business and the Informal Sector
2. Agro-industrial and Commercial Development
3. Rural Social Formations: Their persistence and Change ( including interrogation of rural poverty)
4. Financing Rural Development (interrogating the main sources of funding and their impact)
5. Conflict Resolution, Internal Displacement and Disaster Management
6. Governance, Human Rights, Security and Development
7. Environmental Sustainability
8. Management and Delivery of Higher Education
9. Communities and Social Service Delivery
10. Gender, Generation and Development

On Going Research Projects

1. CODESRIA National Working Group, UGANDA – Conflict Resolution, Internal Displacement and Development.
2. Students Efforts towards PhD and MA Dissertations/Theses/ Research Papers

Membership

Name(s)                                                                      Institution

1. Elijah Dickens Mushemeza                                            BSU

2. Arthur Bainomugisha                                                   ACODE

3. Abigail Komurere                                                        BSU

4. Joan Kyarimpa Ndamira                                                BSU

5. Richard Kamukama                                                      BSU

6. Rose Bwenvu Nakabugo                                              Office of the Prime Minister

7. Evelyn. S. Letiyo                                                        Gulu University

2. CODESRIA Gender Institute 2009: ‘Factors Influencing Effective Women’s Participation in Institutions of Higher Learning in a Rural Setting of Uganda’ - Joan Kyarimpa Ndamira (Part-time Lecturer – Dpt of Secretarial Studies and Dept of Languages

Collaborative Research- BSU & MUST

Theme: “The State and the Media in Uganda’s Transitional Democracy”                  2008 -2009

1. Assoc. Prof. Elijah D Mushemeza  - Bishop Stuart University
2. Assoc. Prof. Pamela Mbabazi         - Mbarara University of Science and Technology