Professor of Psychology Anna Madill secured LSSI Impact Acceleration Account funding to further existing research into how her educational materials could support drug rehabilitation work with young people in Assam ‘My team and I had been working on a project, The Big Picture, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and the Arts and...
Using Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) funding, Professor Jane Plastow was able to prove the value of theatre education for Kenyan communities as a way to share complex social and cultural information – uncovering some unexpected, exploitative outcomes. Professor of African Theatre Jane Plastow began working in Kenya in 2018, using theatre to address a range...
Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) funding gave Dr Manoj Sivan the opportunity to overcome socio-economic barriers between medicine and social sciences. He employed a research fellow to help develop a knowledge-sharing app for patients managing long Covid symptoms at home Dr Manoj Sivan, Associate Clinical Professor and Honorary Consultant in Rehabilitation Medicine with Leeds Institute for...
Professor of African History Shane Doyle secured Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) funding to hold research dissemination workshops in Kenya, exploring social and cultural factors behind the region’s high maternal mortality rates Shane’s research seeks to understand the cultural reasons why women in East Africa are at such high risk of death from maternity causes. ‘In...