URSS/University of Ghana collaboration

URSS/University of Ghana collaboration
Designed to bring together students and academic colleagues from Ghana and the UK to co-create research addressing shared social, environmental, technological and development challenges. The initiative would provide opportunities for students to work across disciplinary and geographical boundaries, developing research skills while learning from different contexts, perspectives and approaches. Projects could involve comparative research between Ghana and the UK, collaborative fieldwork, creative and community-based approaches, and knowledge exchange, with the potential to build longer-term research partnerships between the two institutions.

Potential areas of collaboration include:

Youth unemployment and skills training;
Youth and politics;
Agriculture, climate change and food security;
Governance and decentralisation
Supervisor: Sam Obeng, Department of Economics
Co-creating creative responses to homelessness, potentially connecting with the HOPE NIHR Global Health Research Group on Homelessness and Mental Health (Ghana) and Arts & Homelessness International (UK)
Supervisor: Nadine Holdsworth, SCAPVC
AI translation and minority language communities –, exploring how AI and machine translation serve Ghanaian minority and indigenous languages, alongside comparative work on minority language communities in the UK
Supervisors: Jennifer Burns, David Orrego-Carmona and Elisabeth Herrmann, School of Modern Languages
Mapping multilingual AI access in Ghana and the UK
Examining which languages and communities are well served by current AI tools and the implications for access to public information and services
Supervisor: Jennifer Burns, School of Modern Languages
Sanitation, sustainable water and humanitarian engineering – drawing on the Water for Development Community of Practice (WaDeCoP) and connecting with the UN Sustainable Development Goals and African Union Agenda 2063
Supervisor: Modupe Jimoh, Warwick Manufacturing Group